American Basketball

What American Basketball does

American Basketball operates as a men's professional basketball league, publicly traded on OTCQB under the ticker ABKB and headquartered in New York. The company's website (abaliveaction.com) and stated positioning describe an entity working toward becoming a major professional sports league. Firmographic data lists 1–10 employees and a 1967 founding date, with Joe Newman identified as Chairman and Co-founder.

The legal name "American Basketball Association" corresponds to a historical professional basketball league that operated from 1967 to 1976 as a competitor to the NBA. During its nine-year existence, the original ABA introduced the three-point line and the Slam Dunk Contest, both subsequently adopted league-wide, and featured players such as Julius Erving and George Gervin. In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and four of its franchises (Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets, and San Antonio Spurs) joined the NBA; the league subsequently ceased to exist as an independent entity.

The source data does not establish a clear continuity between the modern, publicly traded entity and the historical league. No revenue, pricing, product, customer segment, or technology disclosures are available beyond the firmographic identifiers. The financial table included in the input (showing hundreds of billions in revenue and large negative EBITDA) is mismatched data attributable to an unrelated issuer and is not relied upon here. An unrelated Indonesian-language block about an online gambling platform also appears in the source feed and is disregarded as non-substantive content.

Name

American Basketball

Legal name

American Basketball Association

Website

https://abaliveaction.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

American Basketball is a New York-based men's professional basketball league publicly traded on OTCQB as ABKB, operating under the legacy American Basketball Association brand. The entity claims a 1967 founding and is led by Chairman Joe Newman, with no disclosed revenue or active operations in the source data.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Sports League

NAICS

Spectator Sports (7112), Spectator Sports (71121)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Basketball Leagues (MPAKAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Professional Live Sports Leagues & Tours (MPAGAMAA)

Keywords

• Professional basketball league
• Sports entertainment
• Live basketball games
• Basketball franchise operations
• Team sports competition

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

American Basketball operates a men's professional basketball league that organizes, governs, and presents live-action basketball games between its member franchises. The league sells live sports entertainment to consumers through arena events, broadcasts, and related programming, and licenses franchise rights to team owners across U.S. markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional basketball league games Live-action men's professional basketball games organized and governed by the league, played between member franchises and presented to U.S. sports fans.
• Franchise rights Rights granted to team owners to operate member franchises of the league in designated U.S. markets (e.g., New York, Kentucky, Denver, San Antonio, Indiana, Virginia, Memphis).
• League championship and competition events Season and playoff competition culminating in a league championship, including special events such as the Slam Dunk Contest that the ABA historically originated.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Harlem Globetrotters: A long-running basketball entertainment franchise that tours globally and monetizes the show/exhibition format; shares the basketball IP and live-events model with American Basketball, though it operates an entertainment tour rather than a competitive league.
• NBA (National Basketball Association): The dominant men's professional basketball league in the U.S.; the entity American Basketball is positioning itself as a competing league, making the NBA the most relevant industry benchmark even though it is not a like-sized competitor.

Direct peers

• BIG3 Basketball League: A U.S.-based professional basketball league launched in 2017 featuring former NBA players; operates as a competing alternative professional basketball property, making it the closest direct peer to American Basketball's league ambitions.
• NBA G League: The NBA's official minor-league development system, operating professional basketball franchises across the U.S.; competes for the same pool of developmental professional players, arena partners, and basketball fan dollars.
• Premier Basketball League (PBL): A historically U.S.-based semi-professional/minor basketball league; comparable as a smaller-scale domestic league operator targeting the same marginal-professional basketball tier American Basketball occupies.

Emerging players

• Athletes Unlimited Basketball: A newer professional basketball league using a unique individual-scoring format with rotating rosters; competes for media attention and sponsorship dollars in the alternative-professional-basketball category alongside American Basketball.
• The Basketball Tournament (TBT): A summer single-elimination basketball tournament featuring competitive men's players with a $1M winner-take-all prize; competes for basketball fan attention and summer sports media share, overlapping with American Basketball's audience.

Regional players

• EuroLeague Basketball: The top-tier professional men's club basketball league in Europe; relevant as a peer for league-format benchmarks (media rights, sponsorship, franchise economics) even though it operates in a different geography than American Basketball.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks5 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/abaftlgold
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/-aba-american-basketball-association

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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