Interviews

June 17, 2023

Defense, Fourth Quarter Surge And Huge Nights From Trio Of Starters Push Fire To Game One Win At Seattle

SEATTLE, WASH — The Potawatomi Fire overcame several different types of adversity on Friday night, many that they hadn’t seen in the 2023 season. Behind a huge 37-point night from the reigning Defensive Player of the Year Lyle Hexom, and triple-doubles (or nearly so) from the 2022 TBL MVP Deshawn Munson and 2023 MVP candidate Chuck…

June 15, 2023

Fire Compete In TBL Regional Finals With Seattle For Right To Play For TBL Championship, ‘The Lillie’

SEATTLE, WASH. — There are just four teams remaining in TBL, and just four wins are needed by any of those clubs to claim the TBL Championship. Two of TBL’s top teams all season long will battle it out late Friday night on the west coast to get one of those wins. The Potawatomi Fire,…

Chris Brand

June 8, 2023

Fire And Mavericks Meet For Central Conference Title And Right To Be One Of TBL’s Last Four Standing

SHREVEPORT, LA. — Hello Mavericks, our old friends. We’ve come to play you again. The Potawatomi Fire and Shreveport Mavericks renew their intense rivalry in the best-of-three Central Conference Championship round of The Basketball League Playoffs. Game one of what promises to be a knock-down-drag-out series will be Thursday, June 8 at 7 p.m. from…

Chris Brand

May 25, 2023

Championship Opportunity Awaits Fire In Final Regular Season Weekend

SHAWNEE, OKLA — The Potawatomi Fire have an opportunity to win The Basketball League Central Conference regular season championship with wins at home this weekend. On Thursday night the first place Fire return from an 11-day break and will host the third place Wichita SkyKings, and on Saturday night, the Fire host the fifth place…

Chuck Guy

January 30, 2023

KD Moore Preseason Interview With Chris Cox

Kierre “K.D.” Moore is a 6-4 guard/forward from Paris, Texas who signed with the Potawatomi Fire in the offseason. In 2022, he played with the Enid Outlaws alongside several new members of the Fire under head coach Mark Dannhoff. When Dannhoff made the move to the Fire from Enid last summer,, several players including Moore,…

Chris Cox

Fire vs Lightning highlights at FireLake Arena

January 24, 2023

Tevin Foster Preseason Interview With Chris Cox

Tevin Foster is a 6-0 guard from Lawton, Oklahoma. In 2022, he was the sixth man for the Potawatomi Fire and one of TBL’s top sixth men. He averaged 13.2 points, along with about two rebounds and two assists per game. He shot nearly 46% from the field including 36% from beyond the three-point…

Chris Cox

August 24, 2022

Fire name Mark Dannhoff as new head coach

NOTE: Be sure to check out a special offseason edition of the Coach’s Corner featuring interviews with Mark Dannhoff and David Qualls as they look ahead to next season! You can watch the special on YouTube at this link. SHAWNEE, OKLA. — The Potawatomi Fire will have a new face patrolling the sidelines in 2023….

June 4, 2022

Potawatomi Fire look to ride success into the postseason

SHAWNEE, OKLA — The Potawatomi Fire are going to their first playoffs ever, and this is the first year they started playing. Check out the story here from KOKH, FOX 25 in Oklahoma City.

Anthony Allen

June 3, 2022

Fire Open Playoff Run With Strong Win Over Rockwall; Munson Continues MVP Push With 10th Triple-Double

SHAWNEE, OKLA — A third straight triple-double for one of the favorites to win league MVP led the Potawatomi Fire to their first-ever playoff win in their first playoff appearance. The third-seeded Fire took game one of their best-of-three Central Conference first round series, winning 111-96 over the sixth seed, the Rockwall 7ers. After back-to-back…

Anthony Allen

October 9, 2021

Citizen Potawatomi Nation becomes first native tribe in Oklahoma to own a professional sports team with announcement of the Potawatomi Fire