The Huntsville Flight was a National Basketball Development League (NBDL) team based in Huntsville, Alabama. Playing their home games at the Von Braun Center, the Flight was a charter franchise for the 2001-02 season but folded after the 2004-05 season. The former franchise today competes as the Canton Charge.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the Flight as one of the NBDL charter franchises on April 11, 2001. On May 10, the franchise announced Bob Thornton would serve as head coach and by July Flight was revealed as the team name. Following the inaugural season, Thornton would resign as head coach to pursue a position as an assistant coach with the Chicago Bulls and be replaced with Ralph Lewis in July 2002.
The league folded the franchise on May 3, 2005, citing a combination of lack of sponsorship dollars and low home attendance.
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“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)