Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball will kick off the league’s fourth season in Nashville, TN on Wednesday, February 5. The entire season will be hosted downtown at the Municipal Auditorium, which opened back in 1962 and has been the home of the Musicians Hall of Fame since 2013.
The 24-game season will run from Feb. 5 to Mar. 2, giving fans a lot to get excited about. The game sticks to the traditional 5×5 format, but allows individual athletes to earn points based on how their team performs and how they perform on their own. Teams change each week, and the highest-performing players serve as captains.
If it sounds both exciting and a little different, that’s because it definitely is—and it’s a lot of fun, especially coming off the heels of Tennessee’s bid for a WNBA expansion team.
Three-time WNBA champion Alysha Clark, who lives in Nashville during the WNBA off-season, is joining AU for the first time this year. She told Swish Appeal, “Bringing professional women’s basketball to Nashville—it’s a great place in the Middle Tennessee area. It’s always been supportive of women’s basketball. And so to be able to be a part of one of the first professional leagues here, it’s historic.”
“I’m hoping to bring more excitement and hopefully excite the…
