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
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Isiah Lord Thomas III, also known as "Zeke", is an American former professional basketball player and coach who is an analyst for NBA TV. Widely regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, the 12-time NBA All-Star was named to the NBA's 50th and 75th anniversary teams, and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He played his entire professional career for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). From 2000 to 2012 he coached the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks, and FIU.
Thomas competing for the Detroit Pistons against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1985
A press conference for Isiah Thomas at the U.S. Century Bank Arena at Florida International University in Miami