Art Kim

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Art Kim (born c. 1912/1913, died after 1988) was an American basketball executive.

Kim was a Korean-American, born on Maui, Hawaii, who was a college basketball player, AAU administrator, and team owner. [1]

Kim was involved with the Washington Generals [2] and owned the Hawaii Chiefs and Long Beach Chiefs of the American Basketball League [1] before becoming the owner of the Anaheim Amigos of the American Basketball Association. [2] In the Amigos' first season in the new ABA Kim had the team open the season with a six-game, 13 day road trip, because ABA teams at the time shared gate receipts and Kim wanted to play in as many teams' first home games as possible. [3] During that first season, Kim fired head coach Al Brightman after a 13–24 start, promoting him to public relations director and replacing him with Harry Dinnel. [4] Art Kim also initiated the 3 point shot, which the NBA called a gimmick and said it would never adopt it.

In 1973, Kim became a teacher, which he did for over ten years even after he turned 70. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 Anaheim Amigos page at RememberTheABA.com Archived March 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 Pluto, Terry, Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association (Simon & Schuster, 1990), ISBN   978-1-4165-4061-8, p.41
  3. ↑ Pluto, Terry, Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association (Simon & Schuster, 1990), ISBN   978-1-4165-4061-8, p.64
  4. ↑ Pluto, Terry, Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association (Simon & Schuster, 1990), ISBN   978-1-4165-4061-8, p.88
  5. ↑ "AFTER ONLY ONE YEAR . . . ADIOS, AMIGOS : Anaheim's Days in ABA Were So Forgettable, They Weren't Painful". Los Angeles Times . 14 July 1988.
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