cue PT Barnum...

[The Sweeper]

http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... #more-2855

Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) http://www.abalive.com today announced that it has added Miami, FL to its growing list of expansion teams for next season. “The new Miami Flame will be a great addition to our Southeast Division,” stated Joe Newman, ABA CEO. “One of our priorities has been to expand the division with more teams in Florida. With the addition of Tampa and Miami, plus several others in the works, we should easily accomplish that goal – and in Aaron and Toynette Camon, we have a great young ownership group that really understands both the game of basketball and the business of basketball.”
Aaron T. Camon Sr. is the owner of Coast to Coast Cleaning Service, Inc., a Tamps Fl-based company. He and Toynette are life long residents of Tampa. Aaron has a passion for basketball (a big LA Lakers fan), and has been coaching AAU basketball for several years. “Owning a professional basketball team has been a dream of Toynette and me for many years,” stated Aaron. “The opportunity to become a part of the ABA family was simply too good to pass. While we’ve lived in Tampa, since there was already a team there for next season, we selected Miami Florida, a city that we know very well – and we intend to make the Miami Flame one of the best organizations in the entire league. We will make Miami and the ABA proud and give the fans there exciting professional basketball at affordable prices.”

For more information, email acamon@yahoo.com; call 813 928 0786 or visit http://www.abalive.com.

[nksports]

[quote=""The Sweeper""]http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... #more-2855“Owning a professional basketball team has been a dream of Toynette and me for many years,” stated Aaron.[/quote]
I'd love to own a pro basketball team myself, but outside of money issues, there's no way in Hades.

"A man's got to know his limitations."

[Paul S]

[quote=""The Sweeper""]http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... #more-2855
Aaron T. Camon Sr. is the owner of Coast to Coast Cleaning Service, Inc., a Tamps Fl-based company. ].[/quote]

Where is Tamps Florida?????


[quote=""The Sweeper""]http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... #more-2855

We will make Miami and the ABA proud and give the fans there exciting professional basketball at affordable prices.” [/quote]

or you could go to Stubhub and get Miami Heat tickets for $17 dollars. The upside to seeing the Heat, is its very rare to show up to an NBA arena on gamenight and see an empty arena with a handwritten sign on the window saying "game cancelled"

http://www.stubhub.com/miami-heat-ticke ... 2-3867354/

[JAKMAN]

Why go see the Flame when Lebron & Heat beating everybody?

[zeke41]

[quote=""The Sweeper""]http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... #more-2855

Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) http://www.abalive.com today announced that it has added Miami, FL to its growing list of expansion teams for next season. “The new Miami Flame will be a great addition to our Southeast Division,” stated Joe Newman, ABA CEO. “One of our priorities has been to expand the division with more teams in Florida. With the addition of Tampa and Miami, plus several others in the works, we should easily accomplish that goal – and in Aaron and Toynette Camon, we have a great young ownership group that really understands both the game of basketball and the business of basketball.”
Aaron T. Camon Sr. is the owner of Coast to Coast Cleaning Service, Inc., a Tamps Fl-based company. He and Toynette are life long residents of Tampa. Aaron has a passion for basketball (a big LA Lakers fan), and has been coaching AAU basketball for several years. “Owning a professional basketball team has been a dream of Toynette and me for many years,” stated Aaron. “The opportunity to become a part of the ABA family was simply too good to pass. While we’ve lived in Tampa, since there was already a team there for next season, we selected Miami Florida, a city that we know very well – and we intend to make the Miami Flame one of the best organizations in the entire league. We will make Miami and the ABA proud and give the fans there exciting professional basketball at affordable prices.”

For more information, email acamon@yahoo.com; call 813 928 0786 or visit http://www.abalive.com.[/quote]


I hope we yank every good Florida market away from this train wreck known as the ABA. SHowing people that you can do the same thing WITHOUT forking over $10K should do the trick. The sad thing is that some of these owners financing that 10K over 5 years wouldn't get an FBA team anyway, so I guess we'll have to just stand alone and do what we can do. Not saying that these folks from Tamps (HUH???) Florida are of the same cloth...just that even if they were financially capable, the ABA does a great job of dismantling that hope with each and every no show opponent!

[The Sweeper]

Grab your spell checker, folks.

http://abalive.com/aba-featured-news/ab ... xt-season/

Indianapolis, IN. The American Basketball Association (ABA) http://www.abalive.com today announced that it will return to Houston TX next season with the Houston Xperience led by what the people of Houston call the FAB 5, a group of young businessmen with strong basketball and business experience in the city. “We have several teams in the Dallas area,” stated ABA CEO Joe Newman, “and it’s time we duplicated that in Houston, a great sports city – and with the FAB 5 we’ve started the process with a terrific group of experienced people. A great addition to our Southwest Division.”
FAB 1 is Kevin Williams, a life long resident of Houston who has always loved basketball. He played at Forest Brook High and at Huston Tillotson College in Austin TX. He has a vast knowledge of the game and in community service. Kevin will serve as President/CEO.
FAB 2 is Hellion Knight who played at White Castle High school, at Colby College in Colby AR and professionally in the UK, Germany and Cyprus. He will service as General Manager. He know operates a player development business and is also a coach at Lamar University in Port Arthur TX.
FAB 3 is Geoff Harner who played basketball at Concordia University and is a youth director at the YMCA. Originally from Austin TX, Geoff will handle day-to-day operations and will be Player Development Coordinator among his other duties.
FAB 4 is Darrell Bogany who played at MB Smiley High School in Houston and in college at Wiley College. Very well respected in the Houston community, he will also play for the Xperience and will be responsible for community relations working with youth groups, schools, not-for-profits. He currently manages several Set em Free Baial Bonds in Houston.
FAB 5 is Jerrell Branch. Jerrell is the Founder of Apliurself, Inc, a not-for-profit positive way of life company that helps underprivileged youth to excel in school, community and the work force through mentoring and student development programs. He will work closely with Darrell Bogany with churches, not-for-profits and other community organizations.
“The FAB 5 will bring Houston what it deserves – professionalism, quality, community and character,” added
Williams. “We are all under 30 years old and we want to bring a youth movement and excitement to the community by providing exciting professional basketball at much needed affordable prices and we thank the ABA for giving us a chance of realizing a dream of owning a professional basketball team.”
For more information, email xperiencebasketball@yahoo.com, or call Kevin Williams at 281 832 0274 or Hellion Knight at 225 776 9722 or visit http://www.abalive.com or http://www.xperiencebasketball.com.

[Paul S]

Everytime

Every single time

This league has an incredible ability to continually outdo itself. It's an amazing ability to continually top itself in un-intended comedy.


The Fab 5 indeed

[nksports]

Fab 1: From the release, we have no idea what he does.
Fab 2: A junior college coach. (Lamar State College-Port Arthur is a junior college, not to be confused with Lamar University in nearby Beaumont).
Fab 3: A youth director at a YMCA.
Fab 4: A bail bondsman. He might be the only one of this group with money.
Fab 5: Director of a non-profit.

“We are all under 30 years old and we want to bring a youth movement and excitement to the community by providing exciting professional basketball at much needed affordable prices and we thank the ABA for giving us a chance of realizing a dream of owning a professional basketball team.”

Don't thank the ABA just yet.
These guys are getting the business lesson of their lives. Good luck. There's probably time to do something else.
To their credit, they have a roster.

[poppajohn]

Sportswriter familiar with junior college Lamar-Port Arthur says he has no recollection of a Hellion Knight on the Seahawks' coaching staff, past or present.

[ABARedWhiteBlue]

Our Hellion is quite the little basketball businessman:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs ... or-lea.php

Houston Gets Another Minor-League Franchise Not Named the AstrosBy Steve Jansen Tue., Sep. 27 2011 at 4:00 PM Comments (3) Categories: Basketball
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​The Rockets' immediate future may be up in the air, but the same doesn't apply to the East Houston Heat, a professional basketball franchise that will debut in spring 2012.

First-time general manager Hellion Knight, who played professionally in Europe for three seasons, is heading the minor-league club. He tells Hair Balls that in April, the Heat, following a draft in February, will play ten home games at San Jacinto Community College-North and ten games on the road beginning in April.

The team will compete in the just-christened New Era Basketball Association, which currently boasts six teams in the Houston area (including Katy, Cy Fair and The Woodlands) but may expand into New Mexico, Florida and Louisiana, according to Knight. Along with the 20-game regular season that will be aired on television and/or online, Knight says the league will include an all-star game as well as playoff contests, two things the 2011 Astros know nothing about.