Reno Bighorns (1978-1979)
January 12, 2018
The original Reno Bighorns were a minor league basketball team that played in the Western Basketball Association during the winter of 1978-79. Though it existed for just one year, the WBA was arguably the best minor pro league in North America that winter. The circuit featured numerous former ABA and NBA players and coaches. To extent the Bighorns were known at the time, it was largely for a bar brawl involvinghard-living New York Yankees manager Billy Martin that happened at the team’s very first game.
