Continental Basketball Association
The Continental Basketball Association (CBA), originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, and later as the Eastern Professional Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association, was a men's professional basketball minor league in the United States from 1946 to 2009.
The 1976 Allentown Jets; the Allentown Jets and Wilkes-Barre Barons both won eight league titles, the most of any CBA team in the league's 63 year history.
Bob Ley, the CBA's play-by-play announcer for ESPN
In August 1999, Isiah Thomas led a group of investors who acquired the CBA
Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 29,963 at the 2020 census. Hazleton is the second-most populous city in Luzerne County. It was incorporated as a borough on January 5, 1857, and as a city on December 4, 1891.
Downtown Hazleton in 2004
An 1884 illustration of Hazleton
Israel Platt Pardee Mansion in Hazleton
Eckley Miners' Village