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Founded | 2009 |
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League |
ABA (2009–2010) PBL (2010–2011) |
Team history | Bluegrass Stallions (2009–2011) |
Based in | Georgetown, Kentucky |
Arena | Davis-Reid Alumni Gymnasium at Georgetown College |
Colors | Blue, white, red |
Head coach | Jaron Brown |
Dancers | Lady Stallions |
Mascot | HOOPS |
The Bluegrass Stallions were a basketball team in the Premier Basketball League. They debuted in the American Basketball Association in 2009–10. The Stallions' first head coach was Kyle Macy, a former Kentucky Wildcats three-time All-American college basketball player.
Based in Lexington, Kentucky, the Stallions began playing at the indoor arena at the Kentucky Horse Park, [1] but moved home games in January 2010 first to Corbin, KY and then to Lexington Christian Academy high school gymnasium due to conflicts with Horse Park management. [2] They finished their turbulent inaugural season by losing in the playoff semifinals, [3] and placing guard Bobby Perry as second team and center Lukasz Obrzut as third team all-ABA. [4]
After the season, the Stallions attempted to form the Basketball Federation of America after a dispute with the ABA, where Stallions then-owner Tony Chase stated "The ABA will still exist, but I do not intend to be a part of that disorganized league next year. That is why this league has been formed." [5] However, Chase sold his interest in the team to his partners, joined the PBL as CEO [6] and the Stallions went with him to the new league. [7] The team moved their home games to Georgetown College, in Georgetown, Kentucky. [8]
On 19 April 2011, in a post on the forums about basketball at the "Our Sports Central" website, a poster who had previously been identified as the Bluegrass Stallions's Tony Chase stated that the Stallions had formally withdrawn from the league privately earlier. [9]
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