ABA's Vancouver team appoints new CEO
June 3, 2004 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Vancouver Explorers News Release
Vancouver, BC. John Probandt, Co-Owner of the ABA's new Vancouver professional basketball team today announced that John M. Brazier has been appointed CEO and Director of Basketball Operations. Probandt stated, "John provides us with the perfect combination of sportsman/businessman, a man who has had success in every endeavor in which he has been involved. He'll lead our organization well."
A native of Seattle, WA, Brazier attended the University of Washington where he played football and track. Upon graduation, he served two years in the U.S. Navy on a cruiser in the Pacific. Following his service, he entered the forest products industry and established Brazier Forest Industries that owned and operated sawmills, lumberyards, a door plant, and a laminating plant in Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii and British Columbia with sales offices in western Europe, Japan, Australia and Vancouver, B.C. Recently, Brazier joined Rising Star Holdings as Vice President of Marketing prior to being appointed CEO of the basketball operations.
Brazier added, "As you know, our team will be very unique with almost all of our players being Chinese. We've spent considerable time in China and have no doubt that we'll be very, very competitive. The talent is extraordinary. Vancouver is a great basketball city and deserves a high quality organization. I think fans will love the ABA style of basketball and will be very impressed with the quality of play. We're looking forward to the challenge."
For more information, log onto www.abalive or email John Brazier at j.brazier@verizon.net or usainvesting@yahoo.com.
Note: OurSports Central no longer actively covers the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a professional league due in part to its inability to publish and play a schedule and the transitory nature of many of its teams. For information on professional minor leagues, please see OSC's basketball section.
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