Team photos were taken by NGBA historian Herold Kane
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BasketballCity ProgramsNGBAPlayersSports NewsTournament NewsTimothy Michael Dean Memorial
January 11, 2019
The NGBA is sad to announce that Timothy Michael Dean of Los Angeles passed away on the morning of January 7, 2019. Timothy was a member of Lambda Basketball League since 1991 and was the co-captain of the LA Heat. Timothy was inducted in the Gay Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001. Timothy played his...
Tournament NewsMoving NGBA to the Next Level
October 12, 2018
NGBA will add intern staffing to game day operations in 2019. Starting at the January 26-27 tournament held in Austin. NGBA will hire four sports management interns to assist in running gay day operations NGBA Founder and President Mark Chambers stated, ” that running tournaments with a skeleton crew have not allowed the NGBA to create...
Tournament NewsNGBA Players at the Gay Games Paris
August 20, 2018
The NGBA was well represented a the Tenth Gay Games in Paris France August 4-12, 2018
Tournament News2015 NGBA Tournaments.
November 8, 2017
The NGBA currently has the following sanctioned events scheduled for 2015. The San Diego Hillcrest Classic January, The 25th Anniversary Coady Roundball Classic April The, long-awaited, Dallas Texas event October. NGBA is partnering with CCETV to broadcast the Hillcrest Classic through a live online stream NGBA was founded to end the era of poorly organized...
Tournament NewsMinneapolis Classic
October 11, 2017
Minneapolis Minnesota hosted the NGBA fall 2017 basketball tournament in Bloomington.
The motto “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” may be true, but over the April 22-24, weekend history was made as the Coady Roundball Classic was played outside of Chicago for the first time in 25 years. The National Gay Basketball Championships hosted 31 teams from ten cities across the US and Canada and...
The Coady Roundball Classic turns 25 this year, and then it's sayonara. Yep, the annual gay basketball tournament tips off April 10 with a registration party at Roscoe's Tavern in Lake View, and games will be played April 11-12 at the Ratner Center and Henry Crown Gymnasium at the University of Chicago. The finals will be played Sunday afternoon. And this is the last year for the Coady, it was announced.
