The Carver community will have the honor to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly established Connecticut Cobras professional men’s basketball team on Friday, March 4th, at the University of Bridgeport.

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The Connecticut Cobras is the first men’s professional basketball team in the state of Connecticut since 2000. The team has many connections to the Carver community and to Carver alumni.

Carver is making 135 tickets available to the families of the students participating in Carver programs this school year as part of Carver’s ongoing parent engagement programming.

Roy Kane, Jr., who grew up at Carver, and went on to play for the University of New Haven, is on the team. As reported in The Hour: …On Thursday night at the Carver Center — the place where he grew up as both a young boy and as a young basketball player — Kane showed that dreams do come true as he signed an official letter of intent to take his skills to the University of New Haven on a full athletic scholarship.

Berdine Joseph of The Voice fame will sing the National Anthem at the Cobras Opening Night game on Friday, March 4th. Berdine sang at many Carver events through the years. For The Voice, as noted by The Hollywood Reporter, Nineteen-year-old Berdine Joseph, who grew up in Haiti before her family moved to the United States, auditioned next. She sang “Hey Mama,” which was a very interesting song choice and definitely one of the more original performances of the night…

Jahmerikah Green-Younger is also on the Cobras team. He was a star basketball player for Brien McMahon High School. He and his family are longtime members of the Carver community. We wrote about Jahmerikah here when he was a senior guard for the Albertus Magnus College men's basketball team when he tallied his 1,000th-career point. This update was about Jahmerikah signing a professional contract with the Western Massachusetts Zombies in the East Coast Basketball League.

The Team Market Owner, a Norwalk native and longtime Carver friend, Anthony Hill, officially established the team in February 2021. The Cobras entered The Basketball League in July 2021.

The team is based out of Norwalk because of its proximity to major cities, including Albany, New York, and Boston. Hill aims to provide an outlet for young athletes and also partner with local companies and nonprofits like Carver.

The Cobras home games will be held at the University of Bridgeport. Here is the season schedule.

The Basketball League (TBL), formerly North America Premier Basketball (NAPB), is a minor league basketball organization. The league began operating in North America in 2018 with eight teams and expanded to over 30 teams as of 2021.