Marv Roberts was an American basketball

Basketball

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 player.

Roberts, a native of Brooklyn, New York, played college basketball at Utah State University

Utah State University

Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....

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Roberts was drafted by the Detroit Pistons

Detroit Pistons

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 in the 3rd round of the 1971 NBA draft. He signed with the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association

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Roberts played for the Rockets beginning in 1971 and was traded to the Carolina Cougars

Carolina Cougars

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 during the 1973-74 season. Roberts joined the Kentucky Colonels

Kentucky Colonels

The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's nine years. The name is derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league's history, but the team did...

 for the 1974-75 season and was part of the Colonels team that won the 1975 ABA Championship

1974 ABA Playoffs

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Following Kentucky's championship season Roberts was traded to the Virginia Squires

Virginia Squires

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. The Squires folded at the conclusion of the 1975-76 ABA season, just before the ABA-NBA merger

ABA-NBA merger

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. As a result, Roberts ended up with the Los Angeles Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers

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 for the 1976-77 season.

Roberts scored 3,345 points in his six NBA/ABA seasons.

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