Mobile Jesters start ninth season in the Port City
MOBILE, Ala. – Mobile Jesters LLC, the Alabama Gulf Coast’s only professional ABA basketball team, announced to the American Basketball Association (ABA) league office they will be returning for their 9th season after the COVID-19 shutdown. The Jesters will be coming back to a record-setting list of over 200 expansion teams for the upcoming season that begins in early November.
“With so many new announcements like Operation Upgrade, ABA Tickets, ABA TV Network and ABA Sales & Marketing, all designed to elevate the ABA to a new level. We have been getting a tremendous amount of interest from teams eager to join the league,” stated ABA CEO Joe Newman.
Coming back after the COVID-19 shutdown the Jesters created some new initiatives and goals for the for the future. The Jesters started by changing their form of business to Mobile Jesters LLC from Sole proprietorship. The new form of business helps the organization to focus more on Community, Competition, Career Placement and winning an ABA CHAMPIONSHIP!
Covid has caused businesses, organizations and individuals to rethink how they operate or grow in the future. We believe the steps we take moving forward will make it possible for Mobile Jesters LLC to impact community growth, community development and stability far into the future.
Community – Collaborating with businesses, organization and groups to build unity and community development by providing a medium for affordable sports entertainment and the arts:
- 501 c (3) Youth Programs – Help youth change their perspectives and improve their life opportunities for the future using “the arts” and skill development as a vehicle. There are not enough activities for youth in the Mobile area, we believe Operation Showcase can be a platform to expand local activities. By encouraging kids to make healthy choices about their future will open new doors of opportunity for them.
- Mini Sapphires Dance Team – Giving young girls a platform to perform, enhance skills, build a resume for high school, college and professional dancing. Open registration for Mini Sapphires starts with a flyer on 19 May 2021.
- Special Night Program – Partner with 40 Non-profits and 40 businesses for them to gain exposure and increase their revenue.
Competition – Provide avenues of opportunities for aspiring young adult athletes to perform and showcase their basketball talents in the American Basketball Association, with the opportunity for them to play internationally or enter the NBA.
Career Placement – The Mobile Jesters LLC have partnered with a 49-year-old company in the direct sales industry to create success, stability and vision in players, their family and friends. Giving the spirit of entrepreneurism by inspiring people to write their own future instead of relying on conventional means to determine their own worth. We believe it can be an empowering force in the financial transformation to uncover the seed of greatness that allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results for their future.
Sapphire Dance Team registration flyer for the upcoming season will come out on 17 May 2021. Dancer must be 18 or older out of high school with the ability to attend practices.
Mobile Jesters LLC Basketball Team will host team “TRYOUTS” on 26 June 2021 (Registration 9 AM, Tryouts 10 AM – 2PM) at the Spring Hill Baptist Church Gym, 11 South McGregor Avenue, Mobile, Alabama. A player must be 18 or older, out of high school with no intent of playing college basketball.
Women American Basketball Association (WABA) – Mobile Jesters LLC will be adding a women team in July to prepare for the 2022 season. This is the opportunity for women to also showcase their basketball skills in a competitive league. The Women’s ABA, under the leadership of Chair Marsha Blount (also ABA Regional Director and Owner of the ABA NJ Express), has grown into a professional women basketball league. www.womensaba.com
The Mobile Jesters LLC basketball season starts the first weekend in November until the first weekend in March with playoffs starting the following weekend. This season will also include: 1) Partnership with Walmart to sell Jesters’ apparel in its stores, 2) Streaming of Jesters 10 home games and 8 away games, 3) Online ticketing will be available, 4) $10,000 “Beat the Clock” event will be held each home game with up to $100K given to 10 lucky winners, 5) $1000 Hotel Discount Cards will be given to each season ticket holder.
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About Mobile Jesters LLC – The Mobile Jesters LLC joined the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 2013 as the Mobile Bay Tornados. Based on prior sports team, the Jesters were told they would not last a year. The Jesters are example of what can happen when you are determined and committed to your dream without allowing other people to become a dream stealer. In 2017 they changed their name to the Port City Tornados still maintaining their winning ways. In 2019 the Jesters became the Mobile Jesters to become more in sync with the Mardi Gras City. Enhancing their vision for the future, the Mobile Jesters LLC are not just basketball, they are about changing lives to create a better tomorrow. Competing in the strongest Region in the ABA the Jesters have accomplished the following over the past 8 years:
2013 – 2019 ABA Finals Qualifier
2016 – 2019 ABA Final 8 Qualifiers
2016 – 2019 Gulf Coast Division Champions
2017 – 2019 Georgia Division Champions
2017 – 2018 Florida Division Champions
2017 – Southeast Division Champions
2017 – ABA Final Four
2019 – Southeast Region Tournament Champions
The American Basketball Association (ABA) – http://www.abaliveaction.com
In 1999 the modem American Basketball Association (ABA) is the spiritual successor to the original ABA, which operated from 1967-1976, before merging with the NBA. Relaunched by Joe Newman and Richard P. Tinkham, who co-founded both the original ABA and the Indiana Pacers, the new ABA is a professional men’s basketball league.
The ABA is the largest professional sports league in America and the most diversified professional sports league in the US with more than 75 percent of its owners being African American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and women. With more than 200 teams, it provides exciting professional basketball at affordable prices. With its famous red, white and blue basketball, it maintains the original ABA heritage created by Dr. J., George Gervin, Spencer Haywood, Moses Malone, Rick Barry and other legends of the sport.
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