The Carver community was there this past Friday at the University of Bridgeport to cheer on the new Connecticut Cobras playing against the Reading Rebels. The Cobras is the first men’s professional basketball team in Connecticut since 2000. This was their first game and they won!

The team has many connections to the Carver community. The game as well as the enthusiastic fans were exciting to watch!

Carver alumna Berdine Joseph of “The Voice” fame sang the National Anthem.

Cobras Ian Gardener #7 is a Carver alumnus, especially on the basketball court, as noted by The Hour in an article about Mo’s Summer Run at the Carver Community Center. Here is another article in The Hour about Ian’s and his sister’s college basketball days. Ian graduated from Dominican College and went on to play professional basketball overseas.

Ian is in the photo in the gallery below with Novelette and the Cobras Jamerikah Green-Younger #2. 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 Cobras 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 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.