The Mobile Revelers were a
National Basketball Development League
The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is the National Basketball Association's (NBA) official minor league basketball organization. The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA Dev ...
(NBDL) team based in
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 cens ...
. Playing their home games at the
Mobile Civic Center, the Revelers was a charter franchise in the
2001-02 season and folded after the
2002-03 season. The team was named after the people who took part in
Mardi Gras
Mardi Gras (, ) refers to events of the Carnival celebration, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three Kings Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday, which is known as Shrove Tuesday. is French for "Fat ...
parades as the
Mardi Gras tradition started in Mobile.
The
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United S ...
(NBA) announced the Revelers as one of the NBDL charter franchises in July 2001. In 2003 the Revelers won the League championship, defeating the
Fayetteville Patriots
The Fayetteville Patriots were an NBA Development League team based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Its logo design features a bald eagle's head and a basketball in the middle of a capital letter "P" with stars and stripes filling ...
, two games to one. However the league contracted the franchise in June 2003.
Season-by-season
NBA affiliates
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References
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Basketball teams established in 2001
Basketball teams disestablished in 2003
Basketball teams in Alabama