I am pretty excited about the latest professional sports venture to hit the Shreveport-Bossier City area. This November, Shreveport and Hirsch Coliseum will once again become hosts to a semi-professional basketball team. In the mid 1990’s, the two were hosts to the Shreveport Crawdads/Storm of the Continental Basketball Association, and come the 11th month of this year, we will have the Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks of the American Basketball Association. The team is relocating from Beaumont, Texas. The ABA is the league, most notably, for playing their games with a red-white-and blue basketballs. The exhibition season begins at home in early November with the regular season lasting into March of 2014, and the ABA Final Four/Championship in April. The Mavericks come with a winning tradition in tact, having won said league titles back-to-back in 2009 – 2011. The team offers an entertainment value that many can afford in this area. Single game tickets are as follows: Courtside $ 35, Box Seats $ 25, General Admish Adults $ 12, Kids(Ages 6 – 12) $ 6,(Ages 0 – 3) Free. Season tickets: Courtside $ 500, Box $ 350, General Admish $ 150. There are 19 home games including exhibition, total. The roster will be full of local talent. They also offer a family four pack for each home game for 2 adults, 2 kids general admish tickets for $ 30. Parking for all home games will be FREE and tipoff will always be at 7:30 pm. All home games are either on Thursday or Saturday nights. This will be something fun for the whole family and something for the entire community to get behind. Come on Shreveport-Bossier, Mav Up!!!
