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The Florida Jades were a professional basketball franchise based in Boca Raton, Florida from 1991 to 1992. The team played its inaugural season in the World Basketball League, which folded before the schedule ended.
It had eight teams, primarily based in the Midwestern United States. [1] The league was founded in 1961 as a minor league alternative to the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL). Based in the Midwest, it drew many of its players from the Big Ten college conference.
McNall's autobiography, Fun While It Lasted: My Rise and Fall in the Land of Fame and Fortune, was published by Hyperion Books in 2003. [9] In 2004, McNall became co-chair of A-Mark Entertainment. [10] He took a role with Peter M. Hoffman at Seven Arts Pictures in 2003 [11] and is credited on Nick Cassavetes' 2012 movie, Yellow. [12]
Several of the teams managed to sign players with experience in the NASL and/or MISL, elevating the quality of play, and a league-wide parity (even the top two teams only managed 15–9 records) produced largely engaging and competitive games. [8] Some troubling signs emerged out of the Northern Division, where all three teams finished below .500.
The team played its inaugural seasons in the World Basketball League before folding. John Starks played for the team before becoming an NBA All-Star. Other notable players: [2] Vincent Askew, Andre Turner, David Rivers, and Joe Dawson. The Rockers played their home games at the Mid-South Coliseum.
The Jacksonville Tea Men was a soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.Overall, the Tea Men played a total of four years in Jacksonville, first in the major league-level North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1980–1982, then in the lower level American Soccer League in 1983 and United Soccer League in 1984.
In the summer of 1989 Dr Jerry Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and California Sports, told his executive Vice President, Ron Weinstein, he was closing the doors on the Los Angeles Lazers of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) and that if he ever wanted to "create a professional indoor soccer league that played in the summer months, out from under the shadow of the NBA, NFL, NHL ...
The Aeros led the league in attendance in 1970 and from 1972–74, but a series of last-place teams during their years as a Cubs farm club drove down attendance throughout the rest of the 1970s. The Aeros won only one division title, and no league championships, during their 15-year history.