The Birmingham Bandits reside in our One-Year Wonder file of doomed minor league basketball teams. Competitive on the court, the Continental Basketball Association club averaged just 1,093 fans per game at Bill Harris State Fair Arena during the winter of 1991-92. The franchise moved to Rochester, Minnesota prior to the 1992-93 CBA season.
The Yakima Sun Kings were a resilient minor league basketball outfit that plodded along for nearly two decades in Central Washington state. During the Sun Kings’ hey day in the mid-1990’s, the Continental Basketball Association was the Official Developmental League of the National Basketball Association and Yakima was a legitimate destination for former NBA draft picks and other fringe pros battling to make it back to the NBA. The team won the championship of the Continental Basketball Association five times.
The Great Lakes Storm basketball team was a minor league outfit that played three seasons in the Continental Basketball Association from 2002 through 2005. The Storm were based in the tiny village of Birch Run (pop. 1,555) in Saginaw County, Michigan. The Storm disbanded in 2005 after three seasons of play.
Doomed, totally forgotten minor league basketball effort that flamed out in Baltimore after a couple of months in early 1979. Team onwer Fred Keller hired ABA and NBA veteran Larry Cannon to coach the team. Cannon, the #5 overall pick in the 1969 NBA draft, got the team off to a 9-5 start. But that wasn’t good enough for Keller, who fired him in December and took the coaching reigns himself. Read more…
We’re talking Rochester, Minnesota – not New York – for this early Nineties minor league hoops entry from the Continental Basketball Association. This was the CBA’s second go-round at Rochester’s Mayo Civic Center, following the equally short-lived Flyers (1987-1989). The Renegade were notable mainly for posting the worst record (6-50) in the long history of the CBA during their debut season in 1993-94. Rochester’s second season saw the addition of an ‘s’ to the team’s name and a remarkable change in fortune on the court as the team improved to 31-25 under former Minnesota T-Wolves chief Bill Musselman.
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