The IBL League Commissioner and another League official traveled to several potiental IBL cities to gauge the interest of the community. One city they looked at was Corvallis, Oregon a city with around 50,000 residents. Media coverage of an IBL team is very important, and the Corvallis Gazette Times actually covered the scouting trip by […]
Earlier I discussed some of the possible songs we could use to introduce our players in the starting lineups to the community. Of course popular chants link DEFENSE! are important, but I suggest we be a little different. There are plenty of situations where the visiting team’s head coach or player will get a technical […]
OMT definiately needs a theme song. Each basketball organization kinda does their own thing for pregame basketball introductions. I can remember the running of the bulls introduction in Chicago way back when I was younger. Here at OMT we need a strong theme song to introduce our IBL franchise. I’m sure Mike and Mike in […]
A lot has happened in the forums over the past several days. Several new members have joined thanks to recent press coverage from Ball Don’t Lie (Yahoo Sports). Obviously, this is very early on in the process, but it is great to see such passionate new owners in the forum. These last few days are […]
Coeur d’Alene is a beautiful lakeside city in Northern Idaho. The city has a population of around 42,000 and a total of 132,000 residents in the greater metropolitan area. The city has three colleges including North Idaho College, Lewis-Clark State College, and the University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene campus. North Idaho college has a very […]
I’ve got some inside video from the Explosion tryouts (yes, this includes the cheer team). Also, I have some new youtube footage of the Explosion’s season opener which you can find posted below. The Snohomish County Explosion finished with a record of 14 and 10. Jermaine Blackburn played 6 games for the club. In 3 […]
Let me be the first to welcome all new and potiental members to OMT. As many of you have noticed we brought on RealGM as a sponsor and our latest national coverage was from Ball Don’t Lie (Yahoo Sports). Skeets was dead on about what we are going to do here. We are starting an […]
Bojan Malesevic- Click for Video Footage
While Peja Stojakovic was draining threes in the NBA, Bojan Malesevic was promoted from the junior/cadet team to Beopetrol Beograd in Serbia. Unfortunately this was also the year the United States was forced to intervene militarily in Serbia. Despite the turmoil of war Malesevic persevered to become a professional basketball […]
How powerful is David Stern? Well when it comes to minor league basketball, has their been a player picked up by an NBA team that didn’t come from his minor league system (D-League)? Guys like Jamario Moon could make the NBA out of the CBA. Moon only made the NBA because GM Colangelo didn’t have […]
Can you imagine scoring 184 points in a pro basketball game and ironically losing the game!?! That’s what happened to the Denver Nuggets on December 13, 1983. At the end of regulation time, their game against the Detroit Pistons was tied 145-145. After three overtime periods, Detroit finally prevailed 186-184. The combined score 370 points […]
