The Great Lakes Storm was a
basketball
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team that played in the
Continental Basketball Association
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for three seasons, beginning in 2002 and ending in 2005. They were based in
Birch Run, Michigan
Birch Run is a village in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,553 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Birch Run Township.
Birch Run was the home of the Great Lakes Storm, a defunct member of the Con ...
, a small town between
Flint
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start fir ...
and
Saginaw
Saginaw () is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Saginaw County. The city of Saginaw and Saginaw County are both in the area known as Mid-Michigan. Saginaw is adjacent to Saginaw Charter Township and considered part of Greater ...
. The Storm played at the
Birch Run Expo Center. The original team was called the Flint Fuze.
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Continental Basketball Association teams
Defunct basketball teams in the United States
Basketball teams in Michigan
2002 establishments in Michigan
2005 disestablishments in Michigan
Basketball teams established in 2002
Basketball teams disestablished in 2005
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