Minor basketball leagues

The Tampa Bay Rebels have clinched home-court advantage for the 2012 Florida Basketball Association championship game. Tampa Bay earned the right to host the event after picking up their 10th win of the season this past weekend, which ensured that they would finish with the best regular-season record in the league. Currently standing at 10-1,…

The visiting Florida Flight broke open a close game in the third quarter, en route to a second straight convincing 110-90 win over the Palm Beach Titans at Inlet Grove Community High School in Riviera Beach. Up by just six at halftime, the Flight (2-3) outscored the Titans 24-12 in the third quarter and were…

This past weekend the UBL had Playoffs and Championship games in Dallas, Texas. What a weekend. The first playoff game was the Texas Wranglers vs the Austin Rhythm. Austin gave the defending champs a fight all game long. The Wranglers pull off the win in the last 5 mins of the game. Wranglers 111 Rhythm…

Black and gold confetti raining down upon him, Jermaine Barnes (6’5”-G/F-82, college: Point, GA) walked to the scorers table, shook his fists and extended three fingers. When he looked up, UBA Commissioner was waiting to shake his hand. A Championship classic and this time, it finally went the Disciples way. Barnes, the finals co-MVP, scored…

Cent.Illinois D. – Rochester R. 101-80 (2-0). Perry Petty (6’1”-G-88, agency: SDJ Sports, college: UTPA) scored 21 points, hitting 8 of 11 shots from the field, to lead the Central Illinois Drive to a 101-80 victory and a 2-game sweep of Rochester to capture the Premier Basketball League title in their first year of existance.…

The Bellingham Slam rode a big second quarter effort to a 142-109 victory over the Portland Chinooks to claim the 2012 International Basketball League Championship on Sunday evening inside a raucous Whatcom Pavilion. Trailing 31-30 after a back-and-forth first quarter, the Slam posted 40 points in the second, with 23 coming from guard Morris Anderson…

The top seeded Kankakee County Soldiers knocked off the third-seeded Albany Legends 150-116, the past weekend at the Genesis Convention Center, in Gary, Indiana, thus becoming Champions of the Independent Basketball Associations spring basketball season. The Soldiers claimed their second Championship of the year, as they were also the champions of the IBA winter season.…

Hudson Valley Hype hit a high note on their miracle season with a hard-fought 102 93 win over the defending EBA Champion Metropolitan All-Stars from Washington, DC. The Hype, who finished in last place in 2011 with a 1-11 record, started their 2012 campaign with a win and never looked back. They marched through their…

” Greetings from New York City. In a major move for minor league basketball I have formed The Federation Of American Professional Basketball (FAPB). I have noticed that there is major discrepancy and a kind of back alley way of operating within the subterranean dwellings of American minor league basketball. At times I have found…