Cazzie Russell: Can He Make It in the Pros?

[Today, most basketball history types credit the ABA with inflating pro basketball salaries. I don’t disagree, but I would add an important asterisk. In September 1966, a full year before the ABA rolled out its a red, white, and blue basketball, the New York Knicks signed University of Michigan All-American Cazzie Russell to a then-shocking $200,000, mu…