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The Cleveland Pipers were an American industrial basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1950s and early 1960s. The Pipers are mostly known for having played in the short-lived American Basketball League from 1961–62. They were also a power in the day's Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball and the National Industrial Basketball ...
Cleveland Pipers - Buchan Bakers: 2/15/1961 54 pts Dick Boushka: Wichita Vickers Oilers - Denver-Chicago Truckers 134-108 2/15/1961 53 pts Burdie Haldorson: Phillips 66ers - Cleveland Pipers 95-92 2/23/1960 50 pts Burdie Haldorson: Phillips 66ers - Akron Goodyear 109-105 (OT) 3/12/1958 46 pts George Bon Salle: Denver D-C Truckers - Buchan ...
The National Industrial Basketball League was founded in 1947 to enable U.S. mill workers a chance to compete in basketball. The league was founded by the industrial teams (teams sponsored by the large companies and made up of their employees) belonging to the National Basketball League (NBL) that did not join the National Basketball Association when the NBL merged with the Basketball ...
In Cleveland, Steinbrenner's coach was John McLendon, who became the first African-American coach of a major pro basketball team. He was hired by Pipers' general manager, Mike Cleary, later the Executive Director of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
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In the spring of 1962, Cleveland Pipers owner George Steinbrenner of the new American Basketball League signed Jerry Lucas to a player-management contract worth $40,000. [1] With the Lucas signing, Steinbrenner had a secret deal with NBA commissioner Maurice Podoloff. The Pipers would merge with the Kansas City Steers and join the NBA.
Notable players for the Cleveland Pipers, a franchise in the American Basketball League that existed from 1961 to 1963. Pages in category "Cleveland Pipers players" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The foundation was formed under the directorship of Mike Cleary, who hired McLendon as head coach of the Cleveland Pipers in 1962 as the first African American head coach in professional sports. Beginning in 2016, a first-round game in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament involving an HBCU team would be known as the Coach John Mclendon ...