Logo of a charter member team of the old American Basketball Association, the Pittsburgh Pipers. The Pipers won the ABA title in the league’s first year of existence in 1967-68, behind ABA legend and future NBA star Connie Hawkins. True to the transient nature of the teams in the ABA in those early years, the Pipers, despite having decent attendance numbers and a championship team, moved to Minnesota the next year after the original Minnesota franchise, the Muskies, moved to Miami. It turned out to be a bad move, and after only one year in Minnesota the club came back to Pittsburgh, played one more season as the Pipers, then were renamed the Condors. Besides Hawkins, some notable former Piper players were John Brisker, George Thompson, Mike Lewis and James Silas.