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The Buchan Bakers was an amateur basketball team located in Seattle, Washington and competed in the National Industrial Basketball League.The Bakers were one of the most popular teams of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), rising to fame in 1957 when the beat the Phillips 66ers in the AAU tournament final.
AAU basketball was particularly strong in the Midwest, Southwest and West Coast, where the NBA had not yet established a presence. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The top teams also played in the National Industrial Basketball League , which began play in the 1947–48 season, [ 5 ] two years before the establishment of the NBA.
The Amateur Athletic Union Men's Basketball All-Americans were players who competed in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) between 1920–21 and 1967–68 and were chosen as the best players in the league during their respective seasons. [1] Founded in 1888, the AAU is one of the largest non-profit, volunteer, sports organizations in the United ...
What began with two boys' AAU teams playing under the Best Virginia name turned into four a year later, ranging from grades 5th-8th. Those teams were represented by players from Uniontown, Pa. to ...
A 2013 AAU youth basketball documentary Little Ballers, was televised by Nickelodeon in 2015, [47] as the first documentary to be aired on NickSports. [48] The film was directed by Crystal McCrary and featured AAU youth team New Heights, featuring Cole Anthony, who is her son. [49]
The New Hampshire Spartans basketball program entered multiple teams at last weekend's Zero Gravity Boys National Finals in Massachusetts, and the Hampton-based organization brought home two ...
Eventually, someone involved with an Amateur Athletic Union travel team saw his basketball talent, and helped him get onto an elite AAU basketball team based out of Las Vegas. The team traveled ...
Always a stepping stone for new leagues such as the NBA, the American Basketball League (ABL), and the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Wingfoots stopped playing a national schedule in the mid-1970s, and after the NABL was dropped in favor of touring teams, Goodyear Tire stopped sponsoring the team. In the 1980s, team sponsorship was ...