Category: International Basketball League

Richmond Rhythm

The Richmond Rhythm were a men’s minor league basketball team that competed for two seasons in the short-lived International Basketball League (IBL) from 1999 until 2001. Former University of Virginia star Ralph Sampson was the team’s general manager and head coach. Both the Rhythm and the IBL itself went out of business after the league’s second season concluded in 2001.

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1999-00 Trenton Shooting Stars program from the International Basketball League

Trenton Shooting Stars

International Basketball League (1999-2001) Born: 1999 – IBL founding franchise Folded: July 2001 First Game: November 26, 1999 (W 107-95 @ Baltimore BayRunners) Last Game: IBL Championships: None Sovereign

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1999-00 San Diego Stingrays Program from the International Basketball League

San Diego Stingrays

The San Diego Stingrays were a One-Year Wonder in the short-lived International Basketball League. The team stumbled through a 19-45 last place campaign during the winter of 1999-00 and then quietly went out of business. The Stingrays were the sixth pro basketball team to fail at the San Diego Sports Arena since the building opened in 1966. The ‘Rays followed the Rockets, Conquistadors, Sails, Clippers and Wildcards into the city’s roundball graveyard.

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1989 Rockford Lightning Program from the Continental Basketball Association

Rockford Lightning

The Rockford Lightning were a popular attraction in Illinois’ third-largest city from 1986 until 2006. The Lightning’s twenty-season run was unusually long by the standards of minor league basketball. The club played in the Continental Basketball Association championship series on four occasions but never managed to win a title.

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1989-90 Grand Rapids Hoops Media Guide from the Continental Basketball Association

Grand Rapids Hoops / Grand Rapids Mackers

The Grand Rapids Hoops were a durable minor league basketball operation that played 14 Continental Basketball Association seasons in various buildings in and around the Western Michigan city.  The team was known as the Grand Rapids Mackers for a period (1994-1996) after ownership briefly passed into the hands of Scott and Mitch McNeal, founders of the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament empire.  When the McNeals unloaded the team in 1996, new owner Bob Prsybysz quickly restored the “Hoops” identity.

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