League NBA Development League Championships 1 (2008) | Head coach Dean Cooper Division / Conference titles 3 (2001, 2007, 2008) Founded 1997 | |
History Idaho Stampede1997–2016CBA: 1997–2006NBA D-League: 2006-presentSalt Lake City Stars2016–present Team colors Navy, dark yellow, white Location Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Arena Lifetime Activities Center Profiles | ||
The Salt Lake City Stars is an American basketball team that plays in the NBA Development League. The team is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Beginning in the 2016–17 season, the Stars will play at the Lifetime Activities Center-Bruin Arena, on the campus of Salt Lake Community College.
Contents
- Salt lake city stars with 20 3 pointers against the bighorns
- Idaho Stampede
- Salt Lake City Stars
- Season by season
- Notable players
- NBA Affiliates
- References
Prior to the move to Salt Lake City for the 2016–2017 season, the team was known as the Idaho Stampede.
Salt lake city stars with 20 3 pointers against the bighorns
Idaho Stampede
From 2005 to 2015, the team played as the Idaho Stampede at the CenturyLink Arena in Boise. Before then, they played home games at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa. The team was founded as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in 1997 and was league runner-up in the 2003–04 season, losing to the Dakota Wizards. After the 2005–06 season, the Stampede announced that the team would be joining the NBA Development League. The Stampede's sole NBA affiliate is the Utah Jazz, with whom they originally had a hybrid partnership. However, on March 24, 2015, the Utah Jazz and the Idaho Stampede announced that the Jazz had purchased the Stampede, becoming the 8th NBA team to become owners of their D-League affiliate. They also had past affiliations with the Denver Nuggets, Seattle SuperSonics, Toronto Raptors and most recently the Portland Trail Blazers, with the Jazz taking sole affiliation after the 2013-2014 season. In the Stampede's first D-League season, the team won the Western Division title, tying for the best record in the league.
On April 25, 2008, the Stampede defeated the Austin Toros, 108–101, in Game 3 of the D-League finals. It was the first title in team history in either the CBA or the D-League. Ever since they lost to the Austin Toros in the 2009 NBA Development League Playoffs, they've never returned to the playoffs, with a 70-80 record for the past three seasons. Earlier in the season, in January 2008, the team had hosted the annual D-League Showcase, in which all the league's teams played two games each in a five-day period.
Salt Lake City Stars
The team was purchased by the Jazz on March 24, 2015, and signed a one-year lease at CenturyLink Arena. On April 4, 2016, the Utah Jazz and the NBA Development League announced that the Idaho Stampede would relocate to Salt Lake City for the 2016–17 season and would be renamed as the Salt Lake City Stars. Prior to this announcement, there hadn't been a D-League team in Utah since the Utah Flash (now the Delaware 87ers) in 2007.
Season-by-season
^=Due to financial problems, the CBA temporarily folded, effectively ending the season.