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Allentown Jets
Basketball team in Pennsylvania, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Allentown Jets were a minor league basketball team that played in the Eastern Professional Basketball League and later the Eastern Basketball Association and Continental Basketball Association from 1958 to 1981. The team was one of the most successful franchises in CBA/Eastern League history, winning eight playoff championships and 12 division titles.
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The team was founded as the 'Wilmington Jets in Wilmington, Delaware in 1957. The following year, in 1958, it relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania.[1] Among the Jets' top players were center Roman Turmon, NBA player and coach Ray Scott, scorer-rebounder Harthorne Wingo, and three-point specialist Brendan McCann.
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame inducted Richard Koffenberger, who played for the team in Wilmington. The Jets' PR maestro, Johnny Kimock navigated this successful transition, making the Jets one of the elite EBL teams. In 1964, the Jets played an interleague contest with the Grand Rapids Tackers of the Midwest Professional Basketball League. The Jets won 138–136, winning the only minor league "World Series of Basketball" interpromotional game ever held. The Jets had a working agreement with the New York Knicks, which sent several players to Allentown for playing time. Scott was the fourth player picked in the U.S. in the 1961 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.
In 1979, the franchise rebranded itself as the Lehigh Valley Jets, an effort to expand its fanbase throughout the greater Lehigh Valley; however, after the 1980–81 season, the Jets folded.[2]
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