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San Jose Jammers Continental Basketball Association

San Jose Jammers

Short-lived Bay Area minor league basketball outfit in the Continental Basketball Association. The San Jose Jammers were formed in the spring of 1989 as part of an ill-fated California expansion effort by the CBA.  The CBA, at the time, was the Official Developmental League of the NBA. Both the Jammers and their expansion partner, the Santa Barbara Islanders, would be out of business within two years. The Jammers’ biggest name player was probably Pearl Washington, the former Syracuse star and #1 draft pick of the New Jersey Nets in 1986.

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