Sport: Basketball (Men's)

International Basketball League

Battle Creek Knights

December 31, 2023

The Battle Creek Knights were a low-level minor league basketball team that played in Southwestern Michigan from 2005 to 2013. The Knights won the inaugural championship of the International Basketball League with a perfect 21-0 record during their debut season in 2005. Later seasons saw the Knights bouncing between various unstable leagues and unable to return to the championship form of their first season. The team appears to have played its final games in January 2013.

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1975-76 Spirits of St. Louis Media Guide

Spirits of St. Louis (1974-1976)

December 10, 2023

The Spirits of St. Louis played just two losing seasons in the defunct American Basketball Association during the mid-1970’s. The team was never particularly successful in the standings or popular at the box office. Nevertheless, the Spirits retain a dedicated cult following thanks to a fantastically talented collection of players and an outrageous deathbed settlement with the NBA that may just be the greatest financial deal in the history of professional sports.

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1972-73 Memphis Tams Program from the American Basketball Association

Memphis Tams

February 22, 2023

The Tams were the middle entry of three Memphis entries in the American Basketball Associations during the early 1970’s, taking the floor at the Mid-South Coliseum from 1972 through 1974. The team’s odd name was an acronym for Tennessee-Arkansas-Mississippi and the club used a tam o’ shanter cap as its logo. Charles O. Finley, the outspoken owner of the Oakland A’s of Major League Baseball and the NHL’s California Golden Seals, owned the club but seemingly took little interest in it. Like the A’s and the Golden Seals, the Tams wore Finley’s preferred colors of green, gold and white.

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2001-02 Dakota Wizards Ticket Brochure from the Continental Basketball Association

Dakota Wizards

October 22, 2022

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.

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