History of PBL teams
This is the year-to-year membership and makeup of the Premier Basketball League, including league divisional alignment and the circumstances of teams no longer in the league.
Alignments
2011
Defunct Teams/Failed Expansion
- Arkansas Impact
- Augusta Groove
- Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Buffalo Dragons – sold to the management of the Buffalo Sharks of the ABA to form the Buffalo Stampede.
- Chicago Aztecas
- Chicago Throwbacks
- Dallas Defenders – ownership revoked mid-season, replaced by league-run replacement, folded when no outside owner could be found
- Detroit Panthers
- Jacksonville JAM – expelled by league
- Jacksonville SLAM – league-run replacement for JAM; folded when no outside owner could be found
- Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry- left after losing in the controversial 2011 PBL Finals. Suspended operations.
- Mid-Michigan Destroyers
- Montreal Sasquatch
- Pee Dee Vipers
- Philadelphia Flight
- Quad City Riverhawks
- Reading Railers
- Rockford Fury – folded when the PBL instituted a "one team per owner" rule
- Southeast Asian All-Stars – announced by PBL, have not been heard from since and not on official website's team roster.
- Toronto Lazers – PBL announced a Toronto expansion team but the team did not join the league for the 2009 season. No update from the league on their status.
- Vermont Frost Heaves – folded from lack of funds.
Teams that left the PBL for another league
- Battle Creek Knights – rejoined International Basketball League
- Bluegrass Stallions- left under unspecified circumstances.
- Buffalo Stampede – removed by the league for failure to adhere to operating standards, joined Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League
- Capitanes de Arecibo – rejoined Baloncesto Superior Nacional
- Dayton Air Strikers- joined International Basketball League, returned to PBL for 2012 season
- Halifax Rainmen – left after controversial 2011 playoffs for National Basketball League of Canada.
- Lafayette Legends – announced, never played a PBL game. Joined Independent Basketball Association.
- Maryland GreenHawks – joined Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League as Washington GreenHawks, folded.
- Minnesota Ripknees – returned to American Basketball Association, folded shortly afterward.
- Quebec Kebs – left after controversial 2011 playoffs for National Basketball League of Canada
- Racine Storm – played three games in 2016 before leaving PBL; ceasing operations
- Saint John Mill Rats – left after controversial 2011 playoffs for National Basketball League of Canada
Timeline
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