Tag: Eli Jacobson

Shreveport Storm

February 17, 2020

Shreveport, Louisiana had a franchise in the Continental Basketball Association, the NBA’s Official Developmental League at the time, for tw seasons during the mid-1990’s. The team was originally known as the Shreveport Crawdads during the 1994-95 season. After a trademark challenge with Minor League Baseball’s Hickory Crawdads, the CBA club was compelled to change its name to the Storm for the 1995-96 season. Both seasons were dreadful both on the court and at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum box office. After only one season under the “Storm” banner, the Shreveport CBA franchise folded in September 1996.

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Columbus Horizon Basketball

Columbus Horizon

September 12, 2018

Columbus Horizon owner Eli Jacobson was a glutton for punishment. The insurance man spent nearly a decade as an investor in the Continental Basketball Association – an eternity by CBA conventions. He owned teams in Pensacola, Columbus and Shreveport between the mid-80’s and mid-90’s. Jacobson’s teams were consistently terrible. Hen enjoyed two winning seasons out of ten and finished in last place five times. Jacobson stayed in Columbus, Ohio for the longest stretch of his CBA adventure – five seasons and four last place finishes between 1989 and 1994.

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Pensacola Tornados Continental Basketball Association

Pensacola Tornados

January 21, 2016

The Pensacola Tornados were actually two separate Continental Basketball Association franchises that operated in the Florida panhandle in the late 1980’s and early 90’s. The first Tornados team arrived abruptly in December 1985, when Ted Stepien, owner of the CBA’s Toronto Tornados, yanked his team out of Ontario and moved it south one month in the 1985-86 season.

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Shreveport Crawdads Continental Basketball Association

Shreveport Crawdads

June 20, 2013

This woeful and well-travelled Continental Basketball Association franchise touched down in Shreveport in 1994. Founded in Sarasota, Florida in 1983, the club trekked through Ohio and West Virginia before arriving in Louisiana eleven seasons later. Along the way, the various versions of the club never made the playoffs and finished in last place six times. The change of scenery didn’t help, as the Crawdads finished dead last again during the 1994-95 CBA season. The following year they were replaced by a new Shreveport CBA entry, the Shreveport Storm.

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