Tag: Biloxi MS

Mississippi Coast Sharks Global Basketball Association

Mississippi Coast Sharks

The Mississippi Coast Sharks were a doomed minor league basketball team that played just 16 games out of a planned 56-game schedule at Biloxi’s Mississippi Coast Coliseum before its league, the Global Basketball Association, folded in midseason in December 1992.

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Mississippi Jets

The Mississippi Jets were a chaotic, Biloxi-based minor league basketball team that played parts of two seasons in the Continental Basketball Association in 1987 and 1988. The team’s dysfunction encompassed the front office, headed by the notorious and disruptive former Cleveland Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien, and several talented but troubled scoring stars on the Jets’ roster. The team moved to Wichita Falls, Texas in 1988.

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