Georgia Knights To Participate In Special Dennis Johnson Games

Published on June 19, 2010 under American Basketball Association (ABA) News Release


Stonebridge, GA. The new ABA Georgia Knights located in Stockbridge, GA will participate in a series of summer league games to honor future NBA Hall of Famer, the late great Boston Celtic Dennis Johnson. On August 13th, Johnson will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

The organizer opf the games is Dennis Johnson's former Pepperdine U team make and long-time personal friend, Embry Malone, owner and coach of the Georgia Gwizzlies basketball team. The games will be played July 10th through August 7th. The location will be the South Cobb Recreation Center, 875 Six Flag Drive, Auistell GA startedin at 645pm.

The Georgia Knights will play the Gwizzles in the opening weekend and teams from Greenville SC and Birmingham AL are slated to play also. Interested players and teams can reach Embry at gwizzlies@msn.com or via telephone, 678 508 0467 or visit www.abalive.com.

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