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Issue 115 June 2004

FROM COMMISSIONER SCOTT ELLIS, SECOND AMERICAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE

Who's Trading?

June  2004

14. Holcomb trades R. Patterson to Fort Hays for Cliff Robinson

13. St. Lucie trades B. Simmons & its 3rd pick and 2005 1st pick to Atlanta for E. Watson & Ward

May  2004

12. St. Lucie trades Wells & B. Barry to Holcomb for Jason Williams, Christie & Holcomb's 2005 3rd pick

11. Holcomb trades Ben Wallace, Billups & its 3rd pick to Finney for Iverson, Christie, Finney's 2nd and Finney's 2005 1st

10. St. Lucie trades Kidd to Iowa for McGrady

9. Holcomb trades Battier to Finney for Bobby Jackson

8. St. Lucie trades Kobe Bryant to Finney for Artest & Finney's 1st pick.

April 2004

7. Chapel Hill trades Van Exel & Laettner to Finney for Haywood

6. St. Lucie trades Davenport's 1st & Yao Ming to Akron for Kevin Garnett & Chris Mihm

5. New Orleans trades Louisiana's 1st and New Orleans' 1st to Davenport for Bettendorf's 1st

4. St.Lucie trades Shaquille O'Neal to Davenport for Davenport's 1st pick

3. St. Lucie trades Zach Randolph to Bakersfield for Shaquille O'Neal & Brent Barry.

March 2004

2. New Orleans trades Terry, Welsch, Ervin Johnson, Samaki Walker, its 3rd pick and its 2005 1st pick to Louisiana for Boozer, Bibby and Louisiana's 2004 1st pick.

February 2004

1. New Orleans trades T. Hassell to Louisiana for Harpring

Final 2004 SABL Draft Order

The following is based on won-lost records and includes penalty point adjustments. Divisional, Conference and World Champions draft last, unless penalty points alter the order. Where won-lost records were tied, penalty points, autoplaying and other league records were used to break the ties:

1. Davenport 2. Atlanta 3. Louisiana 4. New Orleans 5. Tulsa 6. San Francisco 7. Brooklyn 8. River City 9. Bettendorf 10. Chapel Hill 11. Fort Hays 12. Iowa 13. Cave Creek 14. Akron 15. Galactic 16. McLean 17. Richmond 18. Holcomb 19.Tri-City 20. St. Lucie 21. Expansion 22. Expansion 23. Expansion 24. Expansion

Finney Longhorns are now the Fort Hays Fighting Gorillas

Coach Doug Dillingham has changed the name of his team.

2004 SABL Coach of the Year is Charlie Dillingham

His team was gonna make the playoffs, but no one could have guessed that it would win an amazing 60 games and take the West Division by storm. Longtime Holcomb Heat leader Charlie Dillingham is SABL Coach of The Year.

A master trader and strategist, Charlie is always wheeling, dealing and winning. He really enjoys the SABL and Charlie, we enjoy you.

Congratulations!

2004 SABL MVP is St. Lucie's Tim Duncan

In the top 10 in scoring, rebounding, FG% and blocks, tough Tim wins the honor this year, breaking the monopoly Tri-City's Stephon Marbury (3 MVPs in the last 4 years, a record) has had on the award.

2004 SABL All-Stars are chosen

And yes, old Mailman Malone made it one last time. Stockton, too.

Per SABL tradition and protocol, Davenport Dazzler Coach Kevin Feeney will again play the 7-game All-Star series. Starters are listed first.

Classic Conference

PG - Gary Payton, Galactic; John Stockton, St.Lucie

SG - Kobe Bryant, St. Lucie; Allen Iverson, Finney

SF - Paul Pierce, Cave Creek; Michael Jordan, Holcomb

PF - Tim Duncan, St. Lucie; Karl Malone, Galactic

C - Ben Wallace, Holcomb; Shaquille O'Neal, Bakersfield

Royal Conference

PG - Stephon Marbury, Tri-City; Gilbert Arenas, McLean

SG - Tracy McGrady, Iowa; Ray Allen, Akron

SF - Ricky Davis, Tri-City; Reggie Lewis, Quad City

PF - Dirk Nowitski, Richmond; Pau Gasol, Brooklyn

C - Kevin Garnett, Akron; Zydrunas Iliglsaks, Akron

Four new coaches needed for four new expansion teams

One of the country's best Strat basketball leagues, the Second American Basketball Association, is entering its 11th season and we are expanding from 20 to 24 teams. That's us, folks!

That means we need 4 new coaches to join with 20 of the best coaches in the game. Our league of freedom means you are the master of your team's fate, with no Trade Committees or excessive rules to get in the way of having fun and building your franchise.

If you think you have what it takes to compete the with best, email Commissioner Scott Ellis and apply for a franchise.

The Second American Basketball League - where you are free to be the best that you can be.

Tentative schedule for next year is posted

This could change, based on when Strat puts out the cards. Hopefully, they will be out by the first week in October, which makes this schedule possible. This is also posted on our 2004-05 Schedule link:

TENTATIVE 2004-2005 SABL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sept. 1 - $15 dues for 2003-04 season due to Commissioner

11:59 p.m., Oct. 17 – Expansion Roster cuts due to Player Agent Director Mark Long.

1 pm, EST Oct. 23 – Expansion Draft conducted by Player Agent Director Mark Long.

11:59 p.m., Oct. 31 – Regular Draft List due to Player Agent Director Mark Long.

1 p.m., EST, Nov. 6 – 2004 SABL Draft, conducted by Mark Long

11:59pm, Nov. 14 - Post draft trading period ends. Traded rosters must be used from Dec. 6-31

11:59pm, Nov. 28 - Post Draft Rosters & League Disk available to Coaches, from Operations Director & Statistician Steve Walters.

11:59pm, Nov. 30 - Second trading period ends. Traded rosters must be used from Jan. 1-31.

Dec. 6 - 2004-05 SABL Season Starts.

11:59pm, Dec. 31 - Third trading period ends. Traded rosters must be used from Feb. 1-28

11:59pm, Jan. 31 – Final trading period ends. Traded rosters must be used from March 1 until the end of the season. All trades from now on are for the 2003-2004 season.

April 15 - SABL Regular Season ends.

April 20 - 2005 Playoffs, First Round Start

May 1 - Playoffs, Second Round Start

May 10 - Conference Championships

May 20 - SABL World Championship

June 1 - SABL World Champion Crowned.

July 1 - SABL All-Star Series

Old Bettendorf Druids now the Atlanta Havoc

Coach Knox Bardeen has changed the name of his team, but . . .

Quad City the new Bettendorf Druids

Coach Mark Feeney has renamed the Rimrockers.

Quad City Coach Mark Feeney's Address of Evil

3855 Manchester Drive, Bettendorf, Iowa 52722, (563) 359-9100

New one-week, new coach-no trade rule

Player Agent Director Mark Long has come up with a good idea - beginning July 1, anytime a new coach takes over a franchise, he or she cannot make a trade for a week. This gives everyone, including the new coach, a chance to get used to the league before making any moves.

What this means for our expansion teams, is that when they take over their teams after the Expansion Draft, they can't make a trade for one week.

Bakersfield Blades are now the San Francisco Terminators

And they'll be back.

New Emergency Instruction system next year

No more waiting on that late coach or those late results. No more begging your opponent to send those instructions or results. No longer will you have to make extra communications and effort due to the lateness of others.

Operations Director Steve Walters is working on the final version of this, but you can check the Constitution for how it's basically gonna work.

Basically, everyone is going to send me emergency instructions before the season starts. I'll post 'em here on our website. If you don't get instructions or results from your opponent on the date specified, you download the emergency instructions and play the late games.

And if you are on time, you won't have to worry about anything.

Even if we don't get the coaches, expansion will happen

Also wanna make this clear to everyone: In the unlikely event that we don't get four coaches to take our expansion franchises, we are still expanding. The SABL Executive Committee will draft for and run the teams until we get the coaches.

If we don't get the coaches now, we'll get 'em later.

Tulsa Coach Philip Creider does his minutes thang again

Every year, Twister Coach Philip Creider puts together the pre-draft SABL Minutes and many other neat stats for our teams. He's done it again this year, at our 2004 SABL Minutes link.

And at our 2004 Available Players link, you can find out who is available in the draft, thanks again, to Philip.

Great work, bud. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

Tentative divisional realignments

I wanna get this chore started ASAP, so you'll know which division you'll probably end up in long before next season starts. This is not final - where our Expansion team coaches come from could change it, but whatever changes are made, they are always based on geography only. I won't make changes on our website until we have chosen all four of our new Expansion coaches.

Here's how it shapes up right now:

EAST DIVISION

Brooklyn, McLean, Richmond, Akron, Expansion, Expansion

NORTH DIVISION

River City, Davenport, Quad City, Tri-City, Expansion, Expansion

SOUTH DIVISION

Louisiana, New Orleans, Chapel Hill, St. Lucie, Galactic, Bettendorf

WEST DIVISION

Cave Creek, Tulsa, Finney, Holcomb, Bakersfield, Scottsdale

Again, it's not likely that all four of our new Expansion teams will come from the North or the East, so this will likely change. Hopefully, we'll have our Expansion coaches chosen this month, so by July, we'll all know where we're gonna be.

Iowa Tornadoes now the Scottsdale Sun-Burn

Coach Richard Grossman has changed the name of his team to the Scottsdale Sun-Burn.

Hey Richard, do you know Alice Cooper?

How Expansion Draft will work

No dates have been set for our Expansion or Regular drafts this fall yet. Player Agent Director Mark Long and Operations Director Steve Walters will probably decide those dates more than I do, since they will be handling many of those areas now. As soon as they decide, I'll let you know.

As voted on last summer, the Expansion Draft will work like this:

Each team will protect 6 players. As soon as an expansion team picks one of your unprotected players, you immediately reclaim one.

This will continue until each Expansion team either gets a minimum of 8 players or a maximum of 10 players. Anytime after reaching 8 players, the Expansion teams can stop drafting and pick the rest of their players in the Regular draft.

Once the Expansion teams stop picking players in the Expansion Draft, all unclaimed players can be reclaimed by their previous regular team owners. If regular teams do not reclaim their old players, they will be put into the Regular Draft.

It's Amazing - one Feeney leaves, another returns

Kathleen Feeney is leaving as coach of the Quad City Rimrockers, but in her place, our own Axis of Evil is returning - Mark Feeney, former coach of the Bettendorf Druids, is taking over Kathleen's team.

Mark's email is Bettdruid@mchsi.com. I've lost his address and phone number, but he will be sending me that ASAP. When he does, I'll get it posted right away.

Welcome back, Mark! We missed ya'.

History, Records and Rosters updated

The season is over, so check out the new entries!

Time to vote on MVP and Coach Of The Year!

Yep, more things to vote on in our off-season - our 2004 Coach Of The Year and our 2004 MVP. Check the stats, check the standings, and make your choices! I need these votes by June 20.

And still more voting . . . 2004 SABL All-Stars

Who says we don't have anything to do in the summertime? It's time to send me your votes for our 2004 SABL All-Stars, so that Amazing Kevin Feeney (Davenport Dazzlers) can play our annual 7-game All-Star series.

Vote for two point guards, two shooting guards, two small forwards, two power forwards and two centers, in each conference (Royal and Classic). That means you'll be voting for 20 players in total. It's just that simple, but it's just that hard to decide who should get this honor.

And once again, this year's big All-Star suspense story: Will Karl Malone get voted to his 10th consecutive SABL All-Star team? Karl Malone is the only SABL player left that's made the All-Star team every single season the SABL has been in existence. Will another All-Star invitation get delivered to the Mailman this year, too?

Check the stats and you decide! I need these votes by June 20.

Congratulations - a buggy season is over and you all did fantastic!

The game was really buggy. We started really late. It was really a mess. But we really got the job done and we really had fun.

I want to thank all of you for putting up with a new and crazy game and for putting up with me for another season, our 10th. As our new Executive Committee gets ready to take over on July 1, I just wanna say again that you are the best coaches in the best Strat basketball league in America - the Second American Basketball League.

Thanks so much for letting me run this show. And please support Mark and Steve on the Executive Committee next season.

St. Lucie sweeps Tri-City to win 2004 SABL Championship

St. Lucie posted a 41 point 1st quarter and went on to defeat Tri City, 135-98 in game 3. Bryant topped the winners with 36 points, and Marbury had 28 for the Blackhawks.

St. Lucie sweeps, 110-101. Duncan had 30 points and 14 rebounds and Stockton and Kidd 13 assists each. Marbury topped all scorers with 31.

Congratulations to Blackhawk Coach Chris Feeney on his first Royal Conference Championship. Good job, Chris.

St. Lucie set an SABL record with this championship with its fourth SABL Finals win, the most for any franchise in league history.