The Fort Wayne Fury was a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) from 1991 through the cessation of the CBA on February 8, 2001.
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History
The team played at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Fury finished as the league's runner-up in the 1996 season. Former members of the team include former Indiana University standouts Damon Bailey, Jay Edwards, Michael Lewis, Eric Anderson and Greg Graham, NBA guard/forward Stephen Jackson, former multiple-time World Heavyweight Championship (professional wrestling) wrestler Kevin Nash, Mikki Moore, Lloyd Daniels and Percy Miller, better known as the rapper, "Master P". The original Fury coach was Gerald Oliver. NBA Hall of Famer Rick Barry also served as head coach of the team at one point. Another former coach was Keith Smart, who went on to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. Smart then went on to spend one season as the head coach of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA and was the head coach of the Sacramento Kings until June 2013, when he was replaced by Mike Malone as the new head coach.
Head coaches
Gerald Oliver
Mo McHone
Rick Barry
Clifford Ray
Bruce Stewart
Sam Worthen
Keith Smart
Notable players
Ashraf Amaya (born 1971), American former professional basketball player
Eric Anderson (1970–2018), American NBA basketball player
Roderick Anderson
Damon Bailey
Roosevelt Barnes
Drew Barry
Scooter Barry
Emmanuel Bibb
Alex Blackwell
Etdrick Bohannon
Bruce Bowen
Marc Brown (born 1969), American basketball player and coach
Myron Brown
Torgeir Bryn
Dante Calabria
Michael Campbell (born 1975), American basketball player
Jimmy Carruth
Duane Cooper
John Cooper (born 1969), head men's basketball coach at Miami University
Pat Cummings
William Cunningham (born 1974), American professional basketball player
Lloyd Daniels
Yinka Dare
Danny Earl