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2005 WBA Champions
Rome Gladiators beat Mississippi Hardhats
103-100 at Winthrop-King Centre
2006 WBA Champions
Rome Gladiators beat Cartersville Warriors
125-114 (2 OT) at Winthrop-King Centre
Thursday, December 6, 2007 12:00 am
Adrian Wojnarowski, YahooFor all the endless bus rides to empty gymnasiums, the paydays when the owner couldn’t cut checks, the most trying turn of Jamario Moon’s journey had to be the passes the Harlem Globetrotters tossed toward the rafters. The lobs arched 15 feet in the air, tumbling over the side of the backboard, the shot clock and leaving a leaping Moon reaching higher and higher to deliver the deed.
View ArticleFriday, April 27, 2012 9:00 pm
WBA League Alum and rising NBA breakout star Jamario Moon recently signed to the Charlotte Bobcats. Moon is recognized as a NBA veteran who played professional for the Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2009-2010 season. Moon has played in over 278 NBA playoff games. During the regular season for the D-Fenders, he averaged 17.7 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists. In a postseason game for Los Angeles, Moon scored 25 points and grabbed five rebounds in 39 minutes. Moon's skills were honed during his stint with the World Basketball Association (WBA) Exposure League.
View ArticleSunday, May 8, 2011 12:27 pm
The WBA Exposure League Rome Gladiators will present the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Today at Ford Gym at Berry College at 10am today, May 20, 2011 with the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce.
View ArticleFriday, May 20, 2011 9:00 am
The WBA Exposure League announces Rome’s champion professional basketball team, The Rome Gladiators 2011 Season opener. There will be a 2-day Sequence this weekend, May 20th, 2011 the Rome Gladiators finest hoop stars open at Berry College Ford Gym at 7:00pm against the Conyers Court Kings!
View ArticleSunday, June 19, 2005 9:00 am
With an impressive 3-0 record for week number eight, the Rome Gladiators have been chosen as the WBA Team of the Week for June 10 - June 16.
View ArticleWednesday, July 6, 2005 12:00 pm
On Saturday night at the Winthrop-King Centre, the Rome Gladiators went from worst to first. Rome held off the Mississippi HardHats 103-100 to win the World Basketball Association championship
View ArticleSunday, July 2, 2006 12:00 am
David Dawson, Rome News-Tribune Sports WriterThe WBA's best two teams and best two players were on display Saturday night. But there was only one trophy for the taking, and the Rome Gladiators made sure it belonged to them. Again.
View ArticleMonday, July 3, 2006 9:00 am
Chris Terrell, WBADavid Archer of the Cartersville Warriors and Harold Ellis of the Rome Gladiators are the 2006 WBA Coaches of the Year. The two coaches met in the WBA finals this past Saturday in front of a very enthusiastic crowd of Gladiator fans, Warrior fans, and basketball fans alike but the path that these two coaches took was very different.
View ArticleMonday, May 21, 2007 12:00 pm
Both Rome and Floyd county got swept away in Eastern Conference double-header action Saturday in Rome.
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