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Rock Da’ Vote

Nope, sorry I’m not talking about McCain or Obama. Actually, I’m referring to all the voting power you have as a ’Real GM’ of a real IBL professional basketball franchise. It’s great to actually come up with a concept of allowing fans to run a pro team, but then the challenging part is deciding exactly how […]

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About the IBL & OwnMyTeam

About the IBL
The International Basketball League is a fifth year basketball league featuring two rules that reduce dead time: 1) one timeout per quarter 2) an immediate inbound. The result is an athletic game that is very fun to watch. The IBL scoring average per team in its first three seasons was over 126 pts […]

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OMT Updates 3

Welcome all new OMT members and perspective members. Together we are going to start an expansion IBL franchise and you are going to run it. These past few days we have been discussing potiental locations for our new team in the member’s forum. Newberg, Coeur D’Alene, and Dubuque are three cities that have been brought […]

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Welcome New Members

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 […]

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Basketball in Europe Explained

OwnMyTeam is focusing on the IBL minor leagues here in the United States, but in the future members could add another franchise to the mix. Each year membership dues are collected to add to our operating budget which includes sponsorships, season ticket sales, and various other revenues. Down the line the members may become interested […]

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Its not about the league!!!

Most of the questions I get from prospective members and people in general is questions similar to:

I didn’t even know there was a minor league basketball?
This won’t work because no one knows about minor league basketball?
No one knows any of these players?
These aren’t household names?

My reply to questions like these is very simply… “It’s not […]

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Minor League Basketball - Great Basketball Without The Expense (Part 1)

The people at OwnMyTeam feel as a group that we are pretty smart (most of the time anyhow). I get emails all the time asking if we are going to purchase our own NBA franchise. We are smart enough to know that the likelihood of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a expansion franchise […]

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2008 First Round NBA Mock Draft

This is our 2008 NBA Mock Draft Results

1
Heat
Michael Beasley PF
Age: 19, 6′9″, 235 lbs.
Kansas State, Freshman

2
SuperSonics
Derrick Rose PG
Age: 19, 6′3″, 190 lbs.
Memphis, Freshman

3
Timberwolves
Jerryd Bayless PG/SG
Age: 19, 6′3″, 199 lbs.
Arizona, Freshman

4
Grizzlies
Brook Lopez C
Age: 20, 7′0″, 260 lbs.
Stanford, Sophomore

5
Knicks
O.J. Mayo PG/SG
Age: 20, 6′5″, 195 lbs.
USC, Freshman

6
Clippers
Danilo Gallinari SF
Age: 19, 6′9″, 209 lbs.
Armani […]

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Recent OMT developments

Just wanted to take a few minutes and let everyone know of the recent developments that’s been going on at OwnMyTeam.com. We have been very busy marketing the site, talking with people around the internet, bloggers, radio and such about what we are trying to accomplish.
The TeleGram.com and more specifically Josh Bousquet by e-mail at […]

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What a difference ten years can make on the internet

I find it fascinating how the internet and the world of getting your site ‘out there’ has changed over the years. I remember back ten years ago when I first took my entrepreneurial skills to the internet. Back then I can still remember the feeling expressed by most at the time, ‘if you build it, […]

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