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The United Professional Basketball League (UPBL) was an American professional basketball league that played for one season in 2003. It included teams from the states of Kentucky and Ohio.[1][unreliable source?] After lasting one season, the league folded and its remaining teams joined the North American Basketball League (NABL).[citation needed]
The league started play as a four-team league in January 2003, reorganized from a planned Pro Basketball USA league set to have six teams.[2] The four-teams were the Mansfield Hawks, Lexington (Kentucky Coyotes), Louisville Eagles, and Frankfort Statesmen.[2][3][4] The Charleston Miners and teams in Dayton, Ohio, and Crestview, Kentucky, set to play in the Pro Basketball USA league folded before play started.[2] The season ended by the end of March 2003.[3]
Former teams
edit- Mansfield (OH) Hawks
- Kentucky Coyotes
- Frankfort (KY) Statesmen
- Louisville (KY) Eagles
- West Virginia Miners
References
edit- ^ AC (2013-07-18). "1978 West Virginia Wheels • Fun While It Lasted". Fun While It Lasted. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
- ^ a b c (7 January 2003). Three Teams Fold; Hawks' Basketball league reorganizes, Mansfield News Journal
- ^ a b (18 March 2003). Championship Week, Mansfield News Journal
- ^ (2 February 2003). Eagles turn back Hawks 136-132 in United Pro Basketball League, Courier-Journal
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