The Gainesville Galaxy is a
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
team based in
Gainesville, Florida. They began play in the
Continental Basketball League
The Continental Basketball League (CBL) was a men's basketball minor league in the United States that began play in April 2010. The league was headquartered in Florida.
History
In 2009, Dennis Truax, who was previously affiliated with the Co ...
(CBL) for the 2011–12 season. They play their games at the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation Center.
The team was founded as an
expansion team in the CBL, a summer basketball league. The team's owner is Kristine Anderson, a Gainesville entrepreneur, educator, and former
general manager
A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...
of the
Florida Makos, another Gainesville-based basketball team that played one season in the new
American Basketball Association in 2010–2011. The Galaxy will retain former Makos players.
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References
External links
Gainesville Galaxy's official website
Basketball teams in Florida
Continental Basketball League teams
Sports in Gainesville, Florida
Basketball teams established in 2011
2011 establishments in Florida
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