FROM THE BEGINNING....

(The Peter Lawal Block against CBA Albany Pats)

FROM THE CONCRETE TO THE HARDWOOD
BASED ON A TRUE STORY –
"FROM THE BEGINNING..."

When the NYC Internationalz originally bought into the league in September 2007, the market reservation was to initiate the start of a 2009 season for NYC; the CEO- Joe Newman advised that, a 2008 start would optimally be great for the league because the Vermont Frost Heaves, Jersey Express, Westchester Phantoms, Manchester Millrats, Quebec Kebs, Halifax Rainmen, Montreal, Buffalo, Boston, Delaware and Corning Bulldogs, were the teams already operating on the east coast; emails, announcements on conference calls and press releases were going out continually about teams being added in NJ- Atlantic City, PA- Philadelphia, Connecticut and Buffalo, with more teams being taken into consideration for the 2008 ABA season. Currently, none of these teams with the exception of the Jersey Express are teams in participation or existence within the league.

After the initial home venue reneged on our 15 home game dates and added subsidiary costs to contract implied as part of service; we made the league aware of the situation and we were told to persist and get other venues and dates. The result was 3 and 1/2 weeks after on December 3rd; we finalized 15 games at 5 different venues with the required insurance per the venues. Even after that, the league never officially gave the NYC Internationalz a schedule, we looked at other teams' schedules, who advised us that, there schedules were either void or inaccurate to date and they were arranging game schedules ad-hoc. After all of the hard work and compromise, the communication between the Internationalz staff with the league and Earl Childress (St. Louis Stunners Team Owner-arranging schedules for ABA on East Coast) during the season, with assistance from Pierre Hall (Cleveland Rockers Team Owner- arranging schedules for the ABA on East Coast) has neither annotated any positive progression to display that the NYC Internationalz would even have a working schedule ongoing and this was mid-way through the season now to a close.

The NYC Internationalz had confirmed 15 home games and had to cancel 11 dates:

December 27th - Mt. Saint Michaels - Cancelled - No Schedule or Teams To Play
January 4th - Monsignor McClancy - Cancelled - No Schedule or Teams To Play
January 10th - Mt. Saint Michaels - Cancelled - No Schedule or Teams To Play
January 11th - Monsignor McClancy - Cancelled - Played as Away Game (NJ)
January 17th - Elmcore - played Jersey Express – Ad-hoc Schedule
January 18th - Elmcore - played Jersey Express - Ad-hoc Schedule
January 24th - Mount Saint Michaels - Cancelled - Played as Away Game (NJ)
January 25th - Pratt Institute- Cancelled - Played as Away Game (NJ)

Baruch College:
January 31- Cancelled - Suppose to be Played as Away Game with NJ
February 1 - Cancelled
February 7 - Cancelled
February 14 – (CBA- Cancelled) - New Hope TrailBlazers-VA- coach Emory Addisson
February 15 – (CBA- Cancelled) - New Hope TrailBlazers-VA- coach Emory Addisson
March 1 - ? (Cancelled)
March 8 - ? (Cancelled)