Grand Rapids Hoops / Grand Rapids Mackers
October 10, 2015
The Grand Rapids Hoops were a durable minor league basketball operation that played 14 Continental Basketball Association seasons in various buildings in and around the Western Michigan city. The team was known as the Grand Rapids Mackers for a period (1994-1996) after ownership briefly passed into the hands of Scott and Mitch McNeal, founders of the Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament empire. When the McNeals unloaded the team in 1996, new owner Bob Prsybysz quickly restored the “Hoops” identity.
