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2 unusual facts about Continental Basketball Association


Douglas Brei

Throughout the years, Brei's research has prompted corrections and modifications to the Baseball Encyclopedia, the International League Record Book, the Rochester Red Wings media guide, and the Continental Basketball Association Record Book.

Rushey Mead School

The Sports Hall is one of Leicester's best equipped sports facilities, now with professional Continental Basketball hoops that retract from the ceiling, Indoor cricket training facilities, and 6 Tennis or Badminton courts, at a cost of almost £6 million.


Darryl McDonald

After graduating from Texas A&M, McDonald spent several years playing in the relative obscurity of the Canadian NBL, where he was named an All-Star in 1993 while playing to Cape Breton, and the CBA where he played for the Oklahoma City Cavalry and the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

Kris Bruton

Shortly after, he traveled overseas to play in Nagoya, Japan where he played for two years before returning to the United States and playing in the semi-professional Continental Basketball Association.

Mark Macon

Macon also briefly represented the CBA's Florida Beachdogs and Italian club Mabo Pistoia, while still contracted to the Pistons, and Oyak Bursa Spor Kulubu (Turkey), the Atlantic City Seagulls (USBL) and Venezuela's Toros de Aragua, from 1999 to 2001.

Rochester Zeniths

For the 1978-1979 basketball season, the Zeniths joined the newly renamed Continental Basketball Association (formerly known as the "Eastern League") and played most of their home games at the Dome Arena at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Henrietta, New York.

Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks

The team was previously known as the Southeast Texas Mustangs and owned by Jerry Nelson (and before that the Rio Grande Valley Silverados of the Continental Basketball Association which Mr. Nelson purchased from Dr. Jordan Mosowe which they were based out of McAllen, Texas).

Vancouver Dragons

The Vancouver Dragons were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), and one of seven (7) minor league sports franchises owned by Seattle attorney and businessman Michael Tuckman, CEO of West Coast Sports, LLC.

WKAT

However, the franchise is now suspended pending a move to the Continental Basketball Association, where it will be known as the Miami Majesty.


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