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Houston Ballers
Houston Ballers
League	JBA
Founded	2018
History	Houston Ballers; 2018 JBA season
Location	Houston, Texas
Team colours	Blue, gold, white ;
Home	Away

The Houston Ballers were a basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The team competed in the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), a league created for high school and junior college players as an alternative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

History

The JBA was first announced on December 20, 2017, when media personality LaVar Ball said to Slam magazine that he would create a professional league targeted at high school graduates and fully funded by his sports apparel company Big Baller Brand.^[1]^[2] The league held tryouts in Texas in April 2018, selecting a total of 14 players in Dallas and Houston for JBA rosters.^[3] One addition to the Houston Ballers roster was Jordon Myers, a former star guard and three-star recruit out of North Crowley High School in Fort Worth, Texas.^[4] However, their star player would be Curtis Hollis, a multi-athlete that played basketball and football, even originally receiving scholarships for North Texas University's football team before declining and electing to focus on basketball.

Current roster

Houston Ballers roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
G/F	0	Hollis, Curtis (C)	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	185 lb (84 kg)	26 – (1998-04-25)25 April 1998
F	1	Handy, Shannon	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	181 lb (82 kg)
SG	2	Washington, DeShawn	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	170 lb (77 kg)	24 – (2000-06-12)12 June 2000
PG	4	Williams, Calvin	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	150 lb (68 kg)	24 – (2000-03-23)23 March 2000
F	10	Lovelace, Nick	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	190 lb (86 kg)	24 – (2000-03-23)23 March 2000
C	14	Allen, Jeremiah	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	245 lb (111 kg)	27 – (1997-11-27)27 November 1997
SG	23	Myers, Jordon	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	185 lb (84 kg)	26 – (1998-11-19)19 November 1998