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Eastern Basketball Alliance

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Sport
  
Basketball

No. of teams
  
9

Most titles
  
Harrisburg Horizon (9)

Founded
  
1996

Country
  
USA

Most recent champion(s)
  
Harrisburg Horizon (2015)

The Eastern Basketball Alliance is a semi-professional men's winter basketball league. Games are played on the weekends and the season is approximately four months long (January through April).

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History

The EBA was formed in 1996 from the fledgling Atlantic Basketball Association. The league played its first season with seven teams. In 1997, the league expanded to ten teams and was incorporated. In 1998, the first EBA commissioner was elected.

From 1999 to 2001, the EBA joined with four ABA teams to form the United Basketball Alliance, but in 2002 they returned to being the EBA.

The EBA is currently taking a one-year (2015-16 season) hiatus. A Southern Division is scheduled to begin play in the 2016 season.

Former teams

  • Bad News Ballers
  • Beltway Bombers
  • Carolina Gladiators
  • Diamond City Playaz
  • Elmira Bulldogs
  • Garden State Rebels
  • Hudson Valley Hype
  • Lancaster Storm
  • Maryland Marvels
  • Mercer Marauders
  • Metropolitan All-Stars
  • Morris Revolution
  • New Jersey Bullets
  • New York Blast
  • New York Wizards
  • North Jersey Lakers
  • Portsmouth Cavaliers
  • Scranton Blast
  • South Jersey Enterprise
  • Springfield Slamm
  • The Destroyers
  • Tru Hope Trailblazers
  • Washington Madness
  • Washington Warriors
  • Westchester Dutchmen

    • References

    Eastern Basketball Alliance Wikipedia
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