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History of the San Diego Rockets =The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member club of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston. The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four We...
History of the Philadelphia Warriors =The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. The Warriors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The team was established in 1946 as the Philadelphia Warriors based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a founding member of th...
The Detroit Pistons' franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons , a National Basketball League (NBL) team, playing in the gym of North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Owners Fred Zollner and his sister Janet's Zollner Corporation was a foundry, manufacturing pistons, primarily for car, truck and locomotive engines. Fred Zollner, who currently owns a professional softball t...
History of the San Diego Clippers =The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena shared with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angel...
Team creationThe team now known as the Washington Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the first modern expansion team in NBA history. After only one year, they changed their name to the Chicago Zephyrs . In 1963 the franchise moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and became the Baltimore Bullets , taking their name from a 1940s–'50s Baltimore Bullets BAA/NBA franchise and playing h...
The Toronto Huskies were a team in the Basketball Association of America (a forerunner of the National Basketball Association) during the 1946–47 season, based in Toronto, Ontario. The team compiled a 22–38 win–loss record in its only season before formally disbanding in the summer of 1947.==Franchise History==In 1946, a group of owners and operators of some of the larger arenas in America held...
The Vancouver Grizzlies were a Canadian professional basketball team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They were part of the Midwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was established in 1995, along with the Toronto Raptors, as part of the NBA's expansion into Canada. Following the 2000–01 season, the team relocated to Memphis, Tennesse...
The Dallas Chaparrals were a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA). The team moved to San Antonio, Texas for the 1973–74 season and were renamed the San Antonio Spurs. The Spurs joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the 1976–77 NBA season as a result of the ABA–NBA merger.The team's original owners, unable to agree on a name for the franchise during an early...
The Minnesota Muskies were a member of the American Basketball Association, born with the league's creation on February 2, 1967. L.P. Shields and Fred Jefferson were the owners after paying a franchise fee of $30,000. The team then played one season in Minnesota before moving to Miami, Florida to become The Floridians . The team colors were blue and gold and games were played in the Met Center ...
The Denver Rockets was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) but changed its name to Rockets before the first season.==Team creation==In 1967, one of the ABA's charter franchises was awarded to a group in Kansas City, Missouri, headed by Southern Californian businessman James Trindle. However, Trindle was unable to find a suitabl...
The New Jersey Americans were a founding member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), with trucking magnate Arthur J. Brown as the owner. Brown had operated several AAU teams in and around New York City, and was viewed as an ideal pick to run the nascent league's New York franchise. The team was named the New York Americans , and Brown intended for it to play at the 69th Regiment Armory...
The Utah Stars were an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.=History prior to moving to Utah (1967–1970)=The team was founded as the Anaheim Amigos , a charter member of the ABA based in Anaheim, California. They played at the Anaheim Convention Center. The team's colors were orange and black. The Anaheim Amigos were founded by Art Kim, a Hawaii native w...
The purpose of this project is collect all of the Geni profiles of those who played with the Memphis franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA) from the start of the 1970-71 season to the end of the 1974-75 season.==History==The team started out as the New Orleans Buccaneers, a charter member of the ABA.===Memphis Pros (1970-1972)===On August 21, 1970, the team was sold to Mississip...
The New York Nets were founded as the New York Americans , a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA). They played their games during the first season as the New Jersey Americans at the Teaneck Armory in Teaneck, New Jersey.The Americans played fairly well in their first season, tying the Kentucky Colonels for the fourth (and final) playoff spot in the Eastern Division. Ho...
==Harlem Globetrotters== Please add geni profiles associated with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to the project. Must be set to "public." ===About===From Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater, and comedy. Over the years they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 122 countries and territories. Brother Bones's whistled versi...
The Korvpalli Meistriliiga (English: Basketball Premier League) known as the Alexela Korvpalli Meistriliiga (English: Alexela Basketball Premier League) for sponsorship reasons is the first tier level men's professional basketball league in Estonia.The first Estonian Basketball Championship tournament was held in 1925. During the Soviet occupation (1941–1991) the league was called Estonian Sovi...
Hrvatski košarkaši / Croatian basketball playersMans and Womans Lists from wikipedia * Hrvatski košarkaši, Hr * Hrvatski košarkaški savez (HKS) / Croatian Basketball Federation (CBF) , Official website * Hrvatski košarkaški savez (HKS) / Croatian Basketball Federation (CBF) , from wikipedia * Croatian basketball players * Croatian men's basketball players * National Basketball Association playe...
The Oakland Oaks were a charter member of the original American Basketball Association. Formed in February 1967 as the Oakland Americans , the team changed its name to the Oaks prior to play that fall. Playing in the ABA during the 1967-68 and 1968-69 seasons at the Oracle Arena, the team colors were green and gold.On February 2, 1967, pop singer Pat Boone, S. Kenneth Davidson and Dennis A. Mur...
This project is for basketball players who are most known for playing the small forward ( Nisko krilo, Hr ) position. Note that a player's nationality does not affect the role of the position, since basketball positions are played the same way across the globe. Please join us! Your participation are welcome in this project. For join to this project (select ACTIONS (top right) and click Join Pro...
=All-American Red Heads= Please add geni profiles associated with the All-American Red Heads basketball team to the project. Must be set to "public." The All-American Red Heads were one of the first professional women's basketball teams. In 1936, almost 50 years after women's basketball began, C. M. "Ole" Olson(who also founded Oson's Terrible Swedes) started a barnstorming team which would pla...
BC Valga, also known as Valga-Valka/Maks & Moorits after its title sponsor, is an Estonian professional basketball club founded in 2001. They play in the Estonian League and the Latvian League.The team plays its home games at Valga Sports Hall.
The San Diego Sails were an American Basketball Association team based in San Diego, California. Originally called the San Diego Conquistadors (popularly known as the "Q's"), they played from 1972 to 1975. As the Sails, they played an incomplete season only, beginning the 1975-1976 season but folding before its completion.
The purpose of this project is to collect all of the Geni profiles of those who have won a championship in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) .
The Baltimore Claws was an American basketball team which was supposed to appear in the 1975-76 season in the American Basketball Association. The team collapsed before the season started, playing only three exhibition games, all losses, in its brief history.
The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association. Originally called the Pittsburgh Pipers , they were a charter franchise of the ABA and captured the first league title. The team played their home games in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena.They were named the Condors for their last two seasons, 1970-71 and 1971-72.