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