The Nashville Stars were a blink-and-you-missed ’em entry in the quirky World Basketball League, a far flung minor league loop designed for players under 6′ 5″ tall. In the WBL, everyone was “short”, fast-paced guard play dominated, nobody posted up and zone defense was legal. When anyone bothered to play defense, that is. Eventually, the WBL collapsed in financial scandal in the middle of its fifth season. But by then the Nashville Stars had come and gone.
If they are remembered for little else, the Erie Wave of the World Basketball League came up with one of the all-time great cheerleading squad names: the Eriesistibles. What else can be said about the Wave? They plied their trade in a gimmicky basketball league that had a height limit. Two of their players became so disgruntled with the team that they retired to start their own rival WBL franchise. And shortly after the team folded in the middle of its third season, Wave players and staff learned that they had unwittingly taken part in a massive criminal enterprise.
The Florida Jades were dreamt up by a pair of disgruntled minor league basketball players in a Saskatoon motel room, took their name from a cheap men’s cologne, and ultimately became a sideshow to one of the largest corporate frauds in United States history. Not too shabby for a club that lasted barely sixteen months from start to finish.
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