Global Basketball Association (1991-1992) Born: 1991 – GBA founding franchise Folded: November 1992 First Game: Last Game: GBA Championships: None Louisville Gardens Opened: 1905 Team
The Louisville Catbirds were a minor league basketball outfit that played for two seasons in the Continental Basketball Association. The Catbirds identity was selected to try to appeal to both University of Kentucky fans (“Cats”) and University of Louisville (“Birds”) hoops fans. The team signed a pair of troubled former UK stars on radically different trajectories: Dirk Minniefield and Tom Payne. Read more…
The Kentucky Stallions were a Louisville-based franchise in the short-lived All-American Basketball Alliance. The AABA had eight franchises in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., but it quickly became apparent that the league’s investors didn’t have any money. The league launched on January 6, 1978 with a four-team doubleheader hosted by the Stallions in Louisville. Within 30 days of its debut, the entire league was out of business.
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