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Posted 11 July 2011 - 09:56 PM
I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be loaded with "local talent" all the time. They will get more guys from the cities around Ohio and other states around....Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Cincy, etc. there is a lot of people in those combined. IMO...I think they will be fine in the long run. The locals are for the local draw to see the Home town talent play again.
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Posted 11 July 2011 - 10:42 PM
QUOTE (Hound Dog @ Jul 11 2011, 10:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be loaded with "local talent" all the time. They will get more guys from the cities around Ohio and other states around....Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus, Cincy, etc. there is a lot of people in those combined. IMO...I think they will be fine in the long run. The locals are for the local draw to see the Home town talent play again.
That's if there is a long run.........these types of ventures tend to be of the "here one day, gone the other" type.
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Posted 13 September 2011 - 12:07 PM
Heard that there are some NBA players looking for a place to play!!!
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Posted 26 September 2011 - 06:11 PM
Well I see the Lima Explosion are collecting for season tickets...
Then I found this.. http://www.oursports...ead.php?t=19403
Post #5. Explosion right on pace to implode.
Then I found this.. http://www.oursports...ead.php?t=19403
Post #5. Explosion right on pace to implode.
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Posted 27 September 2011 - 04:13 PM
The American Basketball Association might field teams this winter. If it does, those teams might be playing in a league for which the name itself could be stolen intellectual property. This is not the same ABA that began fielding teams in 1967 and in the span of nine years rocked the sports world with red, white and blue colored basketballs. This is not the ABA that introduced Julius "Dr. J" Erving and Moses Malone and rewrote the offensive playbook with the three-point field goal.
This is the new ABA, and Alaska Quake, Anchorage's newest professional sport endeavor, might be embarking on shaky ground if they choose the ABA as a foundation. This ABA was founded by Indianapolis-based promoter Joseph F. Newman and is operated by Newman and Richard P. Tinkham Jr., a business attorney. Newman and Tinkham promote online and claim to field a league of between 70 and 90 professional basketball teams in markets that are underserved by the NBA and the half-dozen or so lower-tier professional basketball leagues.
They also have been known to charge $10,000, possibly more, each time an owner signs up for market rights to an ABA team. Newman claims online to field the largest basketball league in the world. Various journalists have reported that somewhere between 200 and 230 ABA teams have folded since the league launched in 2000.
In December 2009, Newman and Tinkham were sent a cease-and-desist letter from the properties division of the NBA. The letter is referenced in court filings of another case in which Newman's ABA was sued by team owners who want nothing to do with him after playing seasons in which visiting teams failed to show up, referees were paid cash by home teams (not the league) and one sports reporter covered a game in which a team used masking tape for their uniform numbers-masking tape.
The NBA still considers the ABA name it's intellectual property, 35 years after the NBA absorbed the ABA in a merger. Those facts are documented on NBA Properties, Inc. letterhead, signed by Ayala Deutsch, one of the NBA's attorneys in New York. The Press has contacted Deutsch by Facebook and through her office in New York, but so far has not received a return call. The ABA lawsuit, filed in Indiana's Marion County Circuit Court, does not involve the NBA directly. It's plaintiffs - the team owners suing Newman - use the NBA Properties, Inc. letters to bolster their case against the ABA.
Joe Newman said by email Tuesday that he has never received a cease and desist letter from the NBA. He also says the Marion County case was dismissed by a judge. That last claim is true. It's just not the whole truth. The judge in Indiana only dismissed the case after plaintiffs asked for it to be dismissed.
"The real reason it was withdrawn is because it would've cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain a judgment that would never have been paid," says Brij Desai, CEO of Premier Basketball League.
Clearly, Desai has a horse in this race. His boss is Chicago-based surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Sev Hrywnak, one of a handful of ABA team owners and investors who left Newman's ABA after a series of bad seasons. Hrywnak's company, The Sev Group, owns the PBL and has holdings in medical industry and real estate development. Hrywnak and the other investors got so fed up with Newman's management of the basketball league they formed a company, ABA Judgment Collection LLC, solely to sue Newman and clean up the tarnished ABA brand name.
Desai is educated as an accountant, not an attorney, but he says the PBL team owners allow him to speak his mind about Newman and Tinkham. "The attorneys advised us, ‘This guy [Newman] has nothing-he is judgment proof.'" Desai says that's because Newman keeps his real estate in the name of other family members, and hides his ABA income by launching corporations to collect $10,000 fees around the country.
Desai gets attacked perpetually in online postings for saying such things. Newman's email to the Press is a typical example.
"The PBL is a league without honor, ethics, decency, sportsmanship. They are fully aware that the documents that were sent to you were NOT documents from the NBA and that there is no cease and desist letter from the NBA. A total fraud and they know it..."
Still, the letter the Press has a copy of is on NBA Properties letterhead. It references a "cease and desist" sent to ABA Global LLC, a company founded by Newman and Tinkham, and it's signed by a real-life attorney who the NBA main office in New York takes messages for.
This is the new ABA, and Alaska Quake, Anchorage's newest professional sport endeavor, might be embarking on shaky ground if they choose the ABA as a foundation. This ABA was founded by Indianapolis-based promoter Joseph F. Newman and is operated by Newman and Richard P. Tinkham Jr., a business attorney. Newman and Tinkham promote online and claim to field a league of between 70 and 90 professional basketball teams in markets that are underserved by the NBA and the half-dozen or so lower-tier professional basketball leagues.
They also have been known to charge $10,000, possibly more, each time an owner signs up for market rights to an ABA team. Newman claims online to field the largest basketball league in the world. Various journalists have reported that somewhere between 200 and 230 ABA teams have folded since the league launched in 2000.
In December 2009, Newman and Tinkham were sent a cease-and-desist letter from the properties division of the NBA. The letter is referenced in court filings of another case in which Newman's ABA was sued by team owners who want nothing to do with him after playing seasons in which visiting teams failed to show up, referees were paid cash by home teams (not the league) and one sports reporter covered a game in which a team used masking tape for their uniform numbers-masking tape.
The NBA still considers the ABA name it's intellectual property, 35 years after the NBA absorbed the ABA in a merger. Those facts are documented on NBA Properties, Inc. letterhead, signed by Ayala Deutsch, one of the NBA's attorneys in New York. The Press has contacted Deutsch by Facebook and through her office in New York, but so far has not received a return call. The ABA lawsuit, filed in Indiana's Marion County Circuit Court, does not involve the NBA directly. It's plaintiffs - the team owners suing Newman - use the NBA Properties, Inc. letters to bolster their case against the ABA.
Joe Newman said by email Tuesday that he has never received a cease and desist letter from the NBA. He also says the Marion County case was dismissed by a judge. That last claim is true. It's just not the whole truth. The judge in Indiana only dismissed the case after plaintiffs asked for it to be dismissed.
"The real reason it was withdrawn is because it would've cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain a judgment that would never have been paid," says Brij Desai, CEO of Premier Basketball League.
Clearly, Desai has a horse in this race. His boss is Chicago-based surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Sev Hrywnak, one of a handful of ABA team owners and investors who left Newman's ABA after a series of bad seasons. Hrywnak's company, The Sev Group, owns the PBL and has holdings in medical industry and real estate development. Hrywnak and the other investors got so fed up with Newman's management of the basketball league they formed a company, ABA Judgment Collection LLC, solely to sue Newman and clean up the tarnished ABA brand name.
Desai is educated as an accountant, not an attorney, but he says the PBL team owners allow him to speak his mind about Newman and Tinkham. "The attorneys advised us, ‘This guy [Newman] has nothing-he is judgment proof.'" Desai says that's because Newman keeps his real estate in the name of other family members, and hides his ABA income by launching corporations to collect $10,000 fees around the country.
Desai gets attacked perpetually in online postings for saying such things. Newman's email to the Press is a typical example.
"The PBL is a league without honor, ethics, decency, sportsmanship. They are fully aware that the documents that were sent to you were NOT documents from the NBA and that there is no cease and desist letter from the NBA. A total fraud and they know it..."
Still, the letter the Press has a copy of is on NBA Properties letterhead. It references a "cease and desist" sent to ABA Global LLC, a company founded by Newman and Tinkham, and it's signed by a real-life attorney who the NBA main office in New York takes messages for.
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has practice started? Will there be any scrimmages/exhibitions/preseason games?
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I look forward to checking out the ABA brand of hoops. When it comes down to a bang for the buck, I like the NBA D League which is loaded with former college all stars just waiting to move up to the NBA. I will still take in the majority of Fort Wayne Mad Ants games. I hope the ABA does well in the Elida/Lima market, but I think it will be hard for them to compete with the NBA D League being so close.
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Just curious, but I read this today about D league basketball in Canton, Ohio. Is this part of the same league affiliation that the Explosion is part of?
NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- Rick Majerus isn't thrilled with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the timing of their hiring of his lead assistant coach at Saint Louis University. To emphasize his disgust, Majerus turned the name of the franchise's departed superstar into a verb.
"I was Lebron-ed by the Cavs," Majerus told ESPN in reference to LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland for Miami last season.
The Cavaliers introduced Majerus' former assistant, Alex Jensen, on Tuesday as Development League coach of the Canton Charge. The 33-year-old Jensen was named to the job on Oct. 11, four days before Billikens' practice began.
"I told them I'll drive Alex to Cleveland in March and pay his salary, but I couldn't lose him now, not when he was in with three recruits and four days before the season," Majerus said.
Jensen learned of Majerus' remarks late Monday and addressed them at his introductory news conference. He lauded his former SLU boss and coach at Utah. They were part of the Utes team that reached the 1998 NCAA title game.
"[Majerus] thanked me and he wished me well," Jensen said. "The timing of it was unfortunate, but it was a job I could not pass up."
The Cavaliers purchased the D-League team in July and relocated it from New Mexico. Charge General Manager Wes Wilcox said the Cavs dedicated a "couple months" to the coaching search. Jensen said he kept his mentor posted from the time he learned of his candidacy. Majerus was the first person he called after taking two or three days to weigh the offer.
Majerus hired former Army and Evansville coach Jim Crews to replace Jensen.
"It caught [Majerus] off guard," Jensen said. "The first thing we talked about is the season starts real soon."
The Cavaliers' emphasis on defense jibes with what Majerus imparted upon him, he said. Jensen has spoken with Cavaliers coach Byron Scott and the Charge will follow the same philosophies being taught by the parent club.
He admits being "skeptical" at first about taking the job because of his experience playing in the Continental Basketball Association. But Jensen soon realized, he said, the Charge would not be lacking in funding or facilities. The Charge opens its season Nov. 25 at the Canton Memorial Civic Center.
"It was a gut feeling," Jensen said of his final decision. "The more I talked to Wes and others it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. You are an extension of the Cavaliers.
NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- Rick Majerus isn't thrilled with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the timing of their hiring of his lead assistant coach at Saint Louis University. To emphasize his disgust, Majerus turned the name of the franchise's departed superstar into a verb.
"I was Lebron-ed by the Cavs," Majerus told ESPN in reference to LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland for Miami last season.
The Cavaliers introduced Majerus' former assistant, Alex Jensen, on Tuesday as Development League coach of the Canton Charge. The 33-year-old Jensen was named to the job on Oct. 11, four days before Billikens' practice began.
"I told them I'll drive Alex to Cleveland in March and pay his salary, but I couldn't lose him now, not when he was in with three recruits and four days before the season," Majerus said.
Jensen learned of Majerus' remarks late Monday and addressed them at his introductory news conference. He lauded his former SLU boss and coach at Utah. They were part of the Utes team that reached the 1998 NCAA title game.
"[Majerus] thanked me and he wished me well," Jensen said. "The timing of it was unfortunate, but it was a job I could not pass up."
The Cavaliers purchased the D-League team in July and relocated it from New Mexico. Charge General Manager Wes Wilcox said the Cavs dedicated a "couple months" to the coaching search. Jensen said he kept his mentor posted from the time he learned of his candidacy. Majerus was the first person he called after taking two or three days to weigh the offer.
Majerus hired former Army and Evansville coach Jim Crews to replace Jensen.
"It caught [Majerus] off guard," Jensen said. "The first thing we talked about is the season starts real soon."
The Cavaliers' emphasis on defense jibes with what Majerus imparted upon him, he said. Jensen has spoken with Cavaliers coach Byron Scott and the Charge will follow the same philosophies being taught by the parent club.
He admits being "skeptical" at first about taking the job because of his experience playing in the Continental Basketball Association. But Jensen soon realized, he said, the Charge would not be lacking in funding or facilities. The Charge opens its season Nov. 25 at the Canton Memorial Civic Center.
"It was a gut feeling," Jensen said of his final decision. "The more I talked to Wes and others it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up. You are an extension of the Cavaliers.
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Rocketman, on 18 October 2011 - 09:26 PM, said:
Just curious, but I read this today about D league basketball in Canton, Ohio. Is this part of the same league affiliation that the Explosion is part of?
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Posted 19 October 2011 - 01:38 PM
The D League is for guys that may have/ will actually spend time the NBA at some point......not former UNOH players.
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unoh HA!
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DosEquisXX, on 13 October 2011 - 11:08 AM, said:
has practice started? Will there be any scrimmages/exhibitions/preseason games?
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labatts69, on 19 October 2011 - 06:57 PM, said:
yep, started this week. one of my buds i play softball with actually is on the team.
Is your bud a good softball player, if so, this should help the explosion a whole lot
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DosEquisXX, on 26 October 2011 - 09:31 AM, said:
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First home game dec 4
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TiGgEr3, on 27 October 2011 - 03:22 PM, said:
First home game dec 4
First of how many!!! That is the true question?
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caldwell, on 07 November 2011 - 10:49 AM, said:
First of how many!!! That is the true question?
16 home games
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