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2013–14 ABA season

sports season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ16973049 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2013–14 ABA season was the 13th season of the American Basketball Association. The season began in late 2013 and ended in March 2014.

The ABA announced that the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship games would be aired on ESPN 3.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2013–14 ABA season” is sports season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through season and sports, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, season and sports is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “sports season” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16973049. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “2013–14 ABA season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.