Detroit and Quebec have left the ABA now! Along with another franchise the PBL has introduced in Montreal.

The ABA is pretty much done; They’re lucky to have 8 active teams left! Lets see if the Sharks sink with no one left to play…

Yours Truly,

M.L.M.

I just think it’s a bad idea for a team to use the same name, Razorsharks gets shortened all the time, as a team from the same region that’s in a league that is one of your main competitors. Especially when the name has absolutely nothing to do with either city.

From what I’ve read and heard, the Dragons are going to field a few Chinese players and have Americans as well. It will be a blend of players. I’ve heard they can field up to like 6 Chinese players and then filling the rest of the roster with Americans. So it would be like 6 Asian and 6-8 American. The market is China is huge. The NBA China initiative is worth $2.3 billion dollars. ESPN has invested $253 million. NexxNow plans to broadcast Dragons’ games to China, and owns media rights to 2 leagues to do the same, the PBL and CBA. (Found all of this info on their website, www.nexxnow.com) The All-Chinese ABA, Beijing Aoshen team broadcasts games, makes 5-7 million per season and averages almost 20 million viewers per game, in an 18 game season.

Personally, I think it would be cool to see a unique team like that, its deffinately not the ordinary pro basketball team, and international players bring a whole new style of play to the game, a very fundamentally based game. And it helps the Dragons that they are in a very stable league with solid teams, the ABA is a big question mark now that its top teams have left, and they just happened to be in the North East.

The Rochester Razorsharks are in the PBL now, they left the ABA. They just won the PBL championship with almost 10k on hand. The ABA championship was held in Quebec where Vermont won, with less than 1k on hand.

The 2 teams that left were Vermont and Manchester. Vermont has won the ABA Championship the last 2 years(07 and 08) and they have left. Manchester was the top team next to Vermont last season in the ABA, their GM got executive of the year, and now they have left. It is also rumored that Quebec City and Montreal are leaving on Monday, 2 more of the few decent teams left in the ABA. They started last season with almost 40 teams, and finished with about 12 active. It was a disaster of a season. Both Vermont and Manchester in the PRs about joining the PBL both mentioned that they needed more stability, wanted better competition, and a better run league. They’re sick of 140-80 games over teams that show up with 6 or 7 players, with the coach as one of them, and mis-matched jerseys.

The Sharks sound like they have a good plan, and good intentions, but it would be a shame if they had no one to play. Hopefully the ABA can place teams in the N.East to make up for the heartbreaking losses. If the ABA can get up to par with a team like the Sharks, maybe they can do alright, but we will see…

I did my homework, and have been following minor league basketball for quite a few years. Just thought I would post my 2 cents, and contribute to the other comments on a more detailed level. Again, best of luck to the Sharks eventhough they will have competition with the Buffalo Dragons of the PBL, who also sound like they have great credentials and a great plan. It will be interesting for pro hoops in Buffalo this upcomming season.

But, good luck to the Sharks, at least they have a nice venue and some large sponsors, but they are still in the ABA, where games get cancelled frequently and the league is run very poorly. Maybe they can make it work…The ABA just needs to get their act together.