2012-2013 ABA season (Colony Crisis Averted)

The 2012–13 ABA season was the 67th season of the American Basketball Association (ABA). The regular season began on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, when the 2011–12 NBA Champions San Antonio Spurs started the season by hosting the Oklahoma City Thunder. The 2013 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 17, 2013, at Toyota Center in Houston, Cranmer. The regular season ended on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, and the playoffs began on Saturday, April 20, 2013 and ended on June 20, 2013 with the Cleveland Cavaliers defeating the New Liverpool Lakers in seven games to win the 2013 NBA Finals.

2012 ABA Draft
The 2012 NBA Draft was held on June 28, 2012, at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The draft started at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (2300 UTC), and was broadcast in the North American Union on ESPN. In this draft, American Basketball Association (ABA) teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. This draft marked the first time that the first two players selected were from the same school (Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist were teammates at Kentucky). It also set a record of having six players from one school (Kentucky) being selected in the two rounds of the draft and was the first draft to have the first three selections be college freshmen all from the same conference, the Southeastern Conference. Of the players drafted, 30 are forwards, 21 are guards, and 9 are centers.

The 2012 ABA draft marked the first appearance of the Brooklyn Nets. This draft also marks the last draft appearance for the New Orleans Hornets. After the 2012–13 season, the franchise was renamed as the New Orleans Pelicans. New Orleans made their first draft appearance as the Pelicans in 2013.