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Shreveport Storm

Shreveport, Louisiana had a franchise in the Continental Basketball Association, the NBA’s Official Developmental League at the time, for tw seasons during the mid-1990’s. The team was originally known as the Shreveport Crawdads during the 1994-95 season. After a trademark challenge with Minor League Baseball’s Hickory Crawdads, the CBA club was compelled to change its name to the Storm for the 1995-96 season. Both seasons were dreadful both on the court and at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum box office. After only one season under the “Storm” banner, the Shreveport CBA franchise folded in September 1996.

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Shreveport Crawdads Continental Basketball Association

Shreveport Crawdads

This woeful and well-travelled Continental Basketball Association franchise touched down in Shreveport in 1994. Founded in Sarasota, Florida in 1983, the club trekked through Ohio and West Virginia before arriving in Louisiana eleven seasons later. Along the way, the various versions of the club never made the playoffs and finished in last place six times. The change of scenery didn’t help, as the Crawdads finished dead last again during the 1994-95 CBA season. The following year they were replaced by a new Shreveport CBA entry, the Shreveport Storm.

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