Ashland Greens
Founded	1949
League	independent team 1949 - 1951 EPBL Continental Basketball Association The Continental Basketball Association was a professional men's basketball league in the United States, which has been on hiatus since the 2009 season.- History :...  1951-1952
Arena	Ashland High School (1952)
Team History	Ashland Greens 1952
Championships	None
Division Titles	None
Head Coach	unknown

The Ashland Greens were an independent basketball

Basketball

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 franchise in Ashland, Pennsylvania

Ashland, Pennsylvania

Ashland is a borough in Schuylkill county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, 12 miles northwest of Pottsville. The Borough lies in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. Settled in 1850, Ashland was incorporated in 1857, and was named for Henry Clay's estate near Lexington, Kentucky....

, United States. The team was owned by Green's Dairy, and played an independent schedule in which several professional teams would come to Ashland and play against the "home town team." Among the teams that did visit Ashland were the Boston Celtics

Boston Celtics

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 and the Reading Rangers. When the Eastern Pro League

Continental Basketball Association

The Continental Basketball Association was a professional men's basketball league in the United States, which has been on hiatus since the 2009 season.- History :...

's York Cleaners franchise needed to move to another city in the middle of the 1951-52 season, the franchise moved to Ashland and assumed the name of the Greens. The team only played three games before relocating to Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,340 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8.6% from the 2000 census count .-Greater Hazleton:...

and became the Mountaineers.

Year-by-year

Year	League	Record	Reg. Season	Playoffs
1951/52	EPBL	0-3	6th; relocated in mid-season	Did not qualify