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Sources and method

How this site is sourced and what it leaves out

How do you write the history of a minor-league basketball team that never had a beat reporter? You start with the few public records that exist, you treat the team's own old website as evidence of what happened rather than as prose to lift, and you accept that the result will have gaps. This page sets out the method: which sources are used, in what order of trust, how people connected to the club are handled, and the promise that nothing here was copied from the site that occupied this domain from 2009 to 2022.

Where the facts come from

Three kinds of source carry the weight, in this order.

  • Wikipedia, starting with the entry for the California Sea-Kings and extending to the pages for the American Basketball Association (2000-present), The Basketball League, San Jose, San Jose State basketball and the other teams and venues mentioned. Wikipedia is cited first on every page and its own references are followed where they still resolve.
  • The archived official site at seakingsbasketball.com, captured by the Wayback Machine between 2009 and 2022. It is used as a record: which opponents appeared on the schedule, which dates and cities were listed, which community events were reported, which pages existed. It is not used as a source of wording.
  • Primary league pages, chiefly The Basketball League's expansion announcement of November 23, 2020 and the ABA's public listings, which confirm membership and dates from the league side.

Local news outlets were consulted where they could be reached. Where a fetch failed or a page returned nothing usable, the claim it would have supported was cut rather than carried on memory. Every page ends with the list of sources it drew on.

Not the team, not affiliated

This domain was the official home of the California Sea-Kings from 2009 until about 2022, when the registration lapsed. It was then re-registered by an unrelated party and rebuilt as the reference you are reading. Nobody who works on this site has been employed by, paid by, or in contact with the club, its founder, its president, its coaches or its players. The Sea-Kings, the American Basketball Association and The Basketball League have not reviewed or endorsed any of it. Names and marks belonging to those organizations appear here only to identify them. The team colors used in the design, red, black and white, are the colors the club wore on its 2019 site, reproduced as a historical detail and not as a claim of ownership.

Living people

Most of the people connected to the Sea-Kings are alive and were never public figures beyond a small league. The rule here is narrow: only facts that appear in a public source are repeated, and only in the role that source gives. The archived site carried a message from Wash Stallworth Jr., the club's founder, and he is named on this site in that capacity and no further. Wikipedia lists Vic Goodwin as club president and Wallace Bryant as head coach, and the TBL announcement names Goodwin, so those roles are stated. Players are named only where a public schedule, roster or league page names them, with no commentary on their play, their pay or their lives off the court.

No addresses, phone numbers, ages or family details are published for anyone. Anyone named here who finds an error in the way they are described is entitled to have it corrected or removed.

Nothing reused from the old site

The official site that lived at this address between 2009 and 2022 belonged to the club, and so did its words and pictures. None of that text has been reused here, not a headline, not a caption, not a sentence from the founder's message. Archived pages were read for what they showed and then set aside, and every sentence on this site was written fresh from that reading and from the sources above. No photographs, logos or page layouts from the old site have been copied either. If you find a passage that matches the old site, it is an error and should be reported.

Read the archive for facts, write the page from scratch, link the source.