Fort Worth, Texas – The Pro Basketball Association announced on Monday that the Texas Takeover had been awarded a franchise in the PBA for the 2021 Spring-Summer Season. Team owner Derrick Newton is a military vet with over 15 years coaching AAU and Pro-Am. Having coached numerous players that have made All-State, All-Region and players that have played at the collegiate and professional levels over the years helped position the organization for success. Some of the players that have come through the program (formerly Fort Worth Elite) include Chasten King, Deondre Ray, and Norense Odiase. Odiase played at Texas Tech and for Phoenix in the NBA G-League. Some of the players currently on the roster include Raylon Howard (U of St. Marys), Bryon Cooke (Avila), and Jonathan Turner (Ranger College).
Texas Takeover will play in the bubble format held this Summer at the MAC in Lewisville, Texas featuring teams from all over North Texas including teams like the North Texas Prowlers, the F.I.R.M., DFW Just Hoops, Prymetyme, North Texas Saints, Texas Tsunami, Texas Hyenas, Dallas Kings, HoopGoon, DFW Powerhouse, Texas Admirals, Temple Hawks and Waco Terror among others. The bubble is a unique format to minor league basketball in which the participating organizations share in the game day operations costs involved with hosting a high level pro game at one facility. Covid protocols are in place and the league is able to oversee all aspects such as facility, referees, table staffing, video and full 20 category box scores, a graphics artist for promotion, door and gameday operations staffing, the book, the clock, a photographer, a DJ to give the fans an NBA experience for $5 for kids and $10 for adults. Players and coaches are accessible for media availability and will take time to meet and greet the fans after the game, sign autographs for the kids. It’s a way to do it pro and take your whole family to the game for a fun entertaining experience. We have concessions, a restaurant, seating, sponsor involvement, it’s something special that you really don’t find at this level.
The “PRO” part of the Pro Basketball Association in the bubble? Teams vie for the door as the winner will take a 50% take of all attendance proceeds. We expect the top clubs will be paid handsomely to win games on Sunday nights and when you combine that with not having the operating costs of travel or the costs of hosting a game themselves it just makes it a no-brainer when compared to playing in another league financially. Now add to that the number of NBA and high level Overseas people involved in the PBA, 20 category box scores, full game pro looking video every game, scouts all over the World… it’s easy to figure out why the PBA has exploded onto the pro basketball scene domestically and is positioning itself as the highest level of pro basketball played domestically outside the NBA and NBA G-League. There are leagues that don’t check all these boxes and the only ones that get close are financially not comparable. In the PBA everybody wins – team owners, coaches, management, staff, players, scouts alike. If you want PRO – You want the PBA.
The Pro Basketball Association is the top Spring-Summer Pro league in the United States. Currently over 50 teams Nationwide from Seattle to New York City and everywhere in between, the PBA has divisions in the Northwest, Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, South, and Southwest and plays from May through August with playoffs in September. Salaries in the PBA are in upwards of $1500 per month for experienced overseas players and currently has many teams filling their rosters with top level guys coming home from abroad that want to keep working this summer towards NBA Summer League opportunities and lining them back up to head back overseas in the Fall. The PBA currently has 6 people in their front office with NBA Experience, and the National Director of Scouting for the PBA is current Houston Rockets Coach Antoine Broxsie. Also headed by Commissioner Chris Terrell and Deputy Commissioner Ricky Benitez the PBA has 37 years between them of coaching in first division clubs all over the World including the CBA in China, FIBA Europe, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, and all over the World including Domestic leagues like the CBA, USBL, ABA, WBA, MBL, and TBL among others. The PBA also has 17 International Scouting Directors strategically placed Globally who’s sole purpose is to scout PBA players for opportunities in their countries and those include China, Japan, Australia, France, Hungary, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, the Dominican, Venezuela, and Canada among others. The league has established itself as the premiere platform for agents to get their players in a reputable league that has full 20 category box scores and quality pro looking video for every game. If you want PRO – You want the PBA.
