Professional basketball is back in Shreveport as the Shreveport Mavericks have released their 2021 schedule.
The team, now a member of The Basketball League, held its Media Day Monday, allowing local media its first opportunity to meet the new-look Mavericks.
As a member of the ABA, the franchise never lost a game in Shreveport on their way to back-to-back national championships. Long-time head coach Steve Tucker still expects his team to compete for a championship, but warns there may be a few more bumps in the road this time around, The Mavericks of old were a battle-tested, championship team when we were in Shreveport. This is a very young team. We ve got a lot of rookies on this team, more than half our roster is rookies. I m not comfortable with that but we are very, very talented. I encourage the fans to be patient with us because I think we will get there and we ll be the Mavericks of old somewhere down the line.