The Mississippi Blues are a basketball team in the American Basketball Association who began play in 2008-09. Now based in Biloxi, the Blues play at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum and are the first ABA team in Mississippi since the Mississippi Miracles folded after the 2006-07 season.
The Blues spent its first season playing in Jackson, Mississippi at Tougaloo College. In the first season, the Blues advanced to the East Divisional semifinals. While based in Jackson, the Blues were the first basketball team in Jackson since the Jackson Wildcats of the USBL folded mid season in 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words mississippi and/or blues:
““Where is the Mississippi panorama
And the girl who played the piano?
Where are you, Walt?
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)