The Magic City Snowbears were a low-level minor league basketball team that played in the Upper Midwest-based International Basketball Association for five winters during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. “Magic City”, in this case, was Minot, North Dakota. The Snowbears ranged as far north as Winnipeg and Saskatchewan and east into Minnesota, Iowa, and Ohio for IBA competition.
The Mississippi Coast Gamblers were a penniless minor league basketball outfit that staggered through a single campaign in the low budget United States Basketball League during the summer of 1994. The Gamblers played at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum. 8-year NBA veteran Terry Catledge was the team’s best known player.
Formed: December 20, 1984 Folded: Postseason 2007 First Game: May 25, 1985 Last Game: July 1, 2007 Seasons: 22 States: (CT, FL, GA, KS, MA,
Continental Basketball Association (1990-1997) Born: 1989 – CBA expansion franchise Folded: August 13, 1997 First Game: November 9, 1990 (L 118-111 vs. Pensacola Tornados) Last
Continental Basketball Association (2001-2002) Flint Fuze Born: August 2001 – CBA expansion franchise Moved: September 4, 2002 (Great Lakes Storm) First Game: December 1, 2001
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