Arkansas Impact
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The Arkansas Impact was a team in the Premier Basketball League
Premier Basketball League
The Premier Basketball League, often abbreviated to the PBL, is a men's professional basketball minor league in the United States that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season and thirteen teams for the 2009 season. Nine teams from Canada and the United States...

 that played in the league's inaugural 2008 season. They played their home games at the Barton Coliseum
Barton Coliseum
T. H. Barton Coliseum is a 7,150-seat multi-purpose arena, located within the Arkansas State Fairgrounds, in Little Rock, Arkansas.It is the former home of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Trojans basketball team, the defunct Arkansas GlacierCats ice hockey team of the WPHL T. H. Barton...

 in Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

. The city was previously home to the Arkansas Rimrockers
Arkansas RimRockers
The Arkansas RimRockers were a NBA Development League team. They participated in minor league basketball based in Little Rock, Arkansas.Logo design: A red, white, and blue ball going through a basketball rim ....

, (who played in the ABA for their first season and in the D-League
NBA Development League
The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League , the NBA D-League started with eight teams in the fall of 2001...

 for their last two), and the Coliseum was going to be part-time home to the failed ABA expansion team the Arkansas Fantastics
Arkansas Fantastics
The Arkansas Fantastics was a expansion team in the American Basketball Association that was scheduled to begin play in 2007 in Fayetteville, Arkansas....

. The original head coach was former Arkansas Razorback Todd Day
Todd Day
Todd Fitzgerald Day is a retired American professional basketball player. Day is the all-time leading scorer at the University of Arkansas, and played eight seasons in the NBA...



When the list of teams for 2008-2009 was revealed on the PBL website, the Impact was not on it and therefore is considered folded.
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