Carolina Lightning
October 19, 2011
The Carolina Lightning basketball team was a minor league outfit that lasted little more than a month in the all-but-forgotten All-American Basketball Alliance (AABA) in the winter of 1978. Based out of the Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum, the Lightning played ten games between January and early February 1978. Then the comically under-capitalized AABA imploded around them. Read more…