Angelo Drossos (October 31, 1928 – January 9, 1997) was the owner of the

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team from 1973 to 1988, from its time in the American Basketball Association through the ABA-NBA merger and into its years in the

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. Drossos received the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1978 and was instrumental in bringing the

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to the NBA. He died at age 68 in 1997 after battling supranuclear palsy.

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