Gwizzlies Gone Wild
January 13, 2009 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Georgia Gwizzlies News Release
The American Basketball Association Georgia Gwizzlies are please to announced a series of ballgames against the West Virginia Wild that starts on January 23- 24.Daniel Hicks owner of the Wild will have AND 1 ballplayer" Baby Shaq" in uniform when the Gwizzlies come to town.Baby Shaq is seen regularly on ESPN 2 and many other affliates.The series will continue when both teams meet again on January 30-31.Hicks was a player on the 2003 ABA Kansas city team that was runner-ups in the ABA finals to Long Beach."I'm excited about going to West Virginia because I met and got pointers from the legendary Jerry West when I was a student-athlete at Pepperdine University of Malibu,California" states Embry Malone. Pepperdine Head coach at the time was Gary Colson, who made Malone his assistant coach after he graduated. Jerry West and Colson have been best friends for decades.
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