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1. Jim Boeheim played in the Eastern Professional Basketball League for seven years before becoming a college head coach in 1976. At what school did Boeheim coach, winning over 1,000 games and the 2003 National Championship?

From Quiz The Eastern Professional Basketball League

Answer: Syracuse University

Boeheim also coached in the Olympics, won National Coach of the Year honors, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. He had a chance to play in the NBA after being drafted by the Detroit Pistons but chose to coach at Syracuse instead. Boeheim played for the Scranton Miners where he led the team to two EPBL championships.

From Quiz Streetball

Answer: Phillip Champion

Phillip Champion got the nick name Hot Sauce because his jumpshot was so nice people would say it was smooth like water,and then Phillip told them, "Not water, sauce." then the next time he came back and people called him Hot sauce..

From Quiz The Eastern Professional Basketball League

Answer: The EPBL preceded the NBA in allowing African American players to play

The NBA did not sign its first African American ball players until 1950. The EPBL was integrated from the start. Three black players played for the Hazelton Mountaineers in 1946 (the first season in the EPBL). Additionally, in 1955 Hazelton put the first all black line-up on the basketball court. The NBA did not do that until nine years later. In fact, the NBA had only nine players total in their eight-team league in 1955. The EPBL was instrumental in showing the NBA that black players could excel in their league and would be accepted by the fans.

From Quiz Streetball

Answer: 7

From Quiz Streetball

Answer: Harlem

At Rucker Park if you mess up you most likely won't be allowed back. So keep practicing you streetballers.

From Quiz The Eastern Professional Basketball League

Answer: The three-point shot

The three-point shot, introduced by the ABL in 1961, awarded three points to a made shot of twenty-five feet or more. The ABA folded in 1963, but the EPBL had already picked up the three-point shot concept and made it an integral part of the game. The shot's popularity motivated the newly formed American Basketball Association to adopt the rule when it was started in 1967. In 1976 the ABA merged with the NBA and brought with it the three-point shot that was adopted in the NBA in 1979. The EPBL's role in keeping the three point shot alive sped up its arrival to the NBA.

From Quiz Streetball

Answer: Goat

He got his nick name from when he was a kid, he was playing ball with some guys,and after words they asked what his name was and he said, "Earl Manigult", and the one of the guys said did he say Nanny goat?,And then they just called him Goat from then on out..

From Quiz Streetball

Answer: Vince Carter

It was shown on the documentary, "On Hollow Ground"..That premiered only one time on TBS..

From Quiz The Eastern Professional Basketball League

Answer: They both were head coaches in the NBA

Hubie Brown's stint in the EPBL was short, playing for the Rochester Colonels in 1958-1959. After coaching in high school, college, and the ABA he became the head coach of the Atlanta Hawks in 1976. He went on to coach the New York Knicks and Memphis Grizzlies. In between his NBA coaching stints he was a broadcaster of NBA games. In 2005 he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Bob Weiss played for the Wilmington Blue Bombers in EPBL in between his time with the Philadelphia 76ers. After playing for six NBA teams in twelve years, he got into coaching and eventually landed his first head coaching with the San Antonio Spurs in 1986. He has been a head coach for three other NBA teams and in China. M.L Carr, York Larese and Larry Costello also were Eastern League stars who coached in the NBA.

From Quiz The Eastern Professional Basketball League

Answer: Anchorage (Alaska) Northern Knights

Accepting Anchorage as one of the league's new expansion teams brought some much-needed publicity, but with the new team's nearest competitor being 5,000 miles away it was not feasible for very long. The first game brought with it more publicity due to a confrontation between the league commissioner and the owner of the opposing team that travelled from Pennsylvania and because the backboard came crashing down before the game. The game was delayed until another backboard could be found and installed. The experiment lasted until the team folded in 1982. The EPBL was no more when the Continental Basketball Association took it over in 1978. Eventually, all the EPBL teams disbanded because they could not compete with the bigger cities in the new league. By 1985 there were no EPBL teams left.

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