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While the NCAA had to crack down on the college basketball exhibitions, I do miss the Globetrotters college tours of a few years back..

The one kicker that could help Birmingham is whether having a team there could help Hawks ticket sales in Atlanta. You would assume Gwinnett is a captive market for the Hawks, and putting a NBDL team is redundant from a ticket sales perspective.

Since the re-do and bringing over the teams form the CBA, the D-League has been pretty stable. That would tell me the teams are doing OK.

MLB teams play college teams in exhibition games with regularity in spring training. I remember the CBA Albany Patroons played the barnstorming show team Harlem Wizards in pre-season. Such a game wouldn't prove a thing.

Teams should be able to loan a player to another D-League affiliate, if that isn't possible under the current system.

I doubt you will get all the NBA teams to have an affiliation until it is possible to get players out of high school to go to the D-League and develop, and you reduce the rosters of the NBA teams back to 12. The D-League is a lot like the old CBA was, a "spare parts" and league to develop ...

Squirt hockey is going on at the Aviator Center right now. They pay, unlike the ABA....

From the story.. All of the excitement and promise of opening night has evaporated into the Brooklyn ether. Gioia has gone from giddy with anticipation to defeated in 72 hours, the unfortunate reality of semi-pro ownership. "It's been an extremely fast peak and valley," he says out in the ...

The only surprise is that it generated a newspaper story.

It's a reasonable idea, but football ain't cheap. Moving 60 players and feeding them costs a lot, not to mention the games.