The Saskatoon Slam were a Canadian professional basketball franchise based in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , that played in the National Basketball League in 1993 and 1994.
8-681: The Slam were founded in 1990 as the Saskatchewan Storm of the World Basketball League (WBL). The Storm narrowly lost their first game, 117–115 against the Las Vegas Silver Streaks , in front of a record crowd of more than 8,000. The team did not win a championship but had some notable alumni, including Thomas Lyles, the father of Sacramento Kings player Trey Lyles , and current UC Davis Aggies men's basketball coach Jim Les . The WBL folded before
16-742: The CanWest Global System . In the United States, the games were broadcast on SportsChannel America . Mike Rice was the primary analyst for the SportsChannel broadcasts. After the league folded in 1992, the surviving Canadian-based teams formed the National Basketball League . This league played two seasons before it folded as well. This award was established in 1991. This award was established in 1991. These players played at least 1 game in
24-543: The city and province without professional basketball until briefly hosting the Saskatchewan Hawks , from 2000 to 2002. Legend: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, GBL = Games Behind Leader Lost semi-final to Calgary 88's , 2–0 This article about a basketball team in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . World Basketball League World Basketball League ( WBL )
32-644: The conclusion of the 1992 season, and the Canadian franchises opted to create a new national league, the National Basketball League (NBL). It was then that the Storm changed their name to the Saskatoon Slam. The Slam were a success in the only full NBL season. On 8 September 1993, they defeated the Cape Breton Breakers by a score of 109–107 in the fourth game of the championship final to win
40-595: The league title. This was the province's first professional basketball championship, and the only one until the Saskatchewan Rattlers won the inaugural Canadian Elite Basketball League title in 2019 . The NBL struggled financially–for example, all games of the 1993 finals were played in Saskatoon to reduce travel costs–and the league folded in the middle of the 1994 season, along with the Slam. This left
48-568: Was a minor professional basketball league in the United States and Canada which operated from 1988 to 1992. It was founded as the International Basketball Association in November 1987, before changing its name prior to the 1988 season. One of the major differences between it and other leagues was that it had a height restriction. Players over 6 ft 5 in (1.95 m) were not allowed to play; this restriction
56-403: Was eventually convicted of having embezzled $ 10 million to finance the league, from a privately owned company he had founded, Phar-Mor . He was sentenced to nine (9) years in federal prison. In addition to games against other teams in the league, games were also played against international teams. The league had several of its games broadcast on television. In Canada, the games were broadcast on
64-608: Was raised to 6 ft 7 in (2.0 m) in 1991. Basketball Hall-of-Famer and Boston Celtic great Bob Cousy (6'1" tall) was one of the league's founders. Norm Drucker , a 25-year veteran referee with the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association , and a former supervisor of officials for the NBA, served as the WBL's supervisor of officiating. One of the league's founders, Michael Monus ,
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