Carolina Jim McDaniels: ‘I’m Talking About a Championship, 1971

[In 2011, author Gary West published the book Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team Left Behind, with the franchise’s former trainer Lloyd Gardner. The book covers lots of familiar ABA ground but takes a sharp turn on page 286 to tell the story of Jim McDaniels, who signed with the ABA Carolina Cougars in 197…