After a few weeks of conversation the merger sort of talks were discontinued what happen is the RDBL and ABA were not becoming one league but the logo and name was going to be used within the RDBL name while the two kept their idenity.But after a few weeks of bad press and other things going on within the ABA the name didn't seem to have that much going for it so the conversation went dead Williams said Joe Newman said he wanted to be in the spring/summer mix and so we visited about the possiblity of using the name with ours but after things started to fall apart in the ABA and Newman not wanting to answer questions on how to fix the the bad press we thought it best we stay apart after all we have what they don't TV coverage even though before the ABA season started they were saying they had ESPN and other TV media coverage.We broke off talks and wished each other the best one thing is for sure it takes a lot to operate a league but if teams are not ran by people who really know what it takes to make it all happen things can go bad really fast and we don't want to be the biggest spring/summer league just one that can finish the season with all the teams intact Williams said.