The Florida Beachdogs were a Palm Beach County minor league basketball promotion at the old West Palm Beach Auditorium from 1995 to 1997. The team was dominant on the court, reaching the Continental Basketball Association finals in their second and final season in 1997. But staggering financial losses combined with the uncertain future of the WPB Auditorium consigned the ‘Dogs to the minor league graveyard after two seasons.
The Dakota Wizards were a long-running minor league basketball team that played for 17 seasons at the Civic Center is Bismarck, North Dakota between 1995 and 2012. That lifespan marked that Wizards as one of the more durable minor league hoops outfits in American history. After three losing seasons in their first four years, the Wizards would emerge as a minor league power of sorts. During the club’s final thirteen seasons from 1999 through 2012, the Wizards would win four league titles and suffer only two losing campaigns.
The Scranton Aces lasted for just one last-place season in the minor league Continental Basketball Association. The Aces marked the end of the road for long-time Scranton minor league basketball promoter Art Pachter, who threw in the towel after 20 years at the end of the campaign. On the positive side, the Aces helped jumpstart the prospects of ex-Villanova star Rory Sparrow, who leapt from the Aces to a 12-year NBA career.
Continental Basketball Association (1991-2001) Born: September 1990 – CBA expansion franchise Folded: February 8, 2001 First Game: November 8, 1991 (L 99-89 vs. Columbus Horizon)
The short-lived Jacksonville Jets had played all of ten days in their new home city before team owner Ted Stepien began threatening to move his nomadic Continental Basketball Association (CBA) franchise. Again.
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