Aftermath
During the 1968–69 season, the league sold the team to a group led by Jim Gardner, who intended to move the team to North Carolina. However, he agreed to finish the season in Houston. Shortly after the season ended, Gardner moved the team to North Carolina as the Carolina Cougars. After a few years in North Carolina the team moved to St. Louis, Missouri and competed as the Spirits of St. Louis. After the 1975–76 season the team was moving to Salt Lake City, Utah to play as the Utah Rockies but the ABA–NBA merger did not include the Spirits/Rockies or the Kentucky Colonels and the franchise disbanded, its players put into a dispersal draft.
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“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
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