New Orleans Pride
July 29, 2012
The New Orleans Pride were an early women’s professional basketball team that played two seasons between 1979 and 1981. The Pride joined the Women’s Professional Basketball League as an expansion franchise in May 1979, just weeks after the NBA’s New Orleans Jazz moved away to Utah. Like the Jazz, the Pride played their home games in the enormous Louisiana Superdome. Butch Van Breda Kolff, a former Jazz head coach, coached the Pride.
