Utah Snowbears

The Utah Snowbears were a basketball team in the revived American Basketball Association based in Taylorsville, Utah for the 2004-2005 season. The team played its home games in the Lifetime Activities Center on the Redwood Campus of Salt Lake Community College.

Led by guard Clay Tucker and forward Harold Arceneaux, the Snowbears finished the regular season with a 25-1 record, then won two playoff games to qualify for ABA's championship round. However, despite a 27-1 record, the franchise folded before the season ended. The new Snowbears were successful on the floor, but struggled in other ways: poor attendance, financial difficulties, lack of coverage in local media outlets.

In 2005, a new ABA team in the Salt Lake City market was announced, the Salt Lake Dream scheduled to play the 2006-2007 season. But the Dream also folded before playing a single game after experiencing financial problems of its own. With a new Continental Basketball Association franchise, the Utah Eagles, now playing in Taylorsville and a NBA D-League franchise starting up in Orem, Utah for the 2007-08 season, it appears unlikely another ABA franchise will enter Utah in the near future.