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The United States Basketball League was founded in December 1984 by Daniel T. Meisenheimer, a stockbroker from Connecticut. [7] [8] [9] The league management initially planned to schedule about 40 games during the summer, and started to look for new teams to join the newly formed USBL. [10]
Teams of the United States Basketball League. Pages in category "United States Basketball League teams" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
United States Basketball League (USBL) National Professional Basketball League (NPBL) All-American Basketball Alliance (2010) Global Professional Basketball League (GPBL) Global Professional Basketball League 2 (GPBL 2) United Regions Basketball League (URBL) National Alliance Basketball League (NABL) National Athletic Basketball League (NABL)
Former McDonald's All-American and Syracuse guard Michael Lloyd won the USBL Rookie of the Year award, and three players were named to all-league teams (Greg Grant to the All-USBL First Team and Mark Strickland and Ron Anderson to the Second Team). [4] In April 1997 the Seagulls signed R&B singer R. Kelly to a professional basketball contract. [5]
The Oklahoma Storm was a United States Basketball League (USBL) team in Enid, Oklahoma.Founded by sports agent and attorney James Sears Bryant, the Storm won the USBL championship under head coach Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2002, defeating Kansas with a final score of 122–109. [1]
Previously, the team competed in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) and in the United States Basketball League (USBL). The Patroons won CBA championships in 1984 and 1988 [1] as well as a TBL championship in 2019. [2] The team's name derives from patroon, the term for a large landholders in New Netherland, the Dutch colony that once ...
The Gulls folded at the end of the 1985 season, but a new team in Rhode Island joined the USBL in 1987. In the USBL draft, the Gulls drafted 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues second overall. Bogues was named the league's Rookie of the Year, averaging 22.2 points and 8.4 assists per game and leading the league in minutes per game before an ankle injury ...
The Gary Steelheads were a professional basketball team. They played in the International Basketball League (IBL), Continental Basketball Association (CBA), and the United States Basketball League (USBL). They were based in Gary, Indiana, United States, and played their home games at the Genesis Convention Center. The Steelheads were the 2006 ...