Greenville Groove

{{Infobox basketball club

| color1 = blue

| color2 = white

| color3 = green

| name = Greenville Groove

| logo = GreenvilleGroove.png

| imagesize = 65px

| league = NBA Development League

| founded = 2001

| history = Greenville Groove
2001–2003

| arena = BI-LO Center

| city = Greenville, South Carolina

| colors = Green and Blue

| coach = Milton Barnes (2001-02)
Tree Rollins (2002-03)

| owner = Carl Scheer

| league_champs = 1 NBA D-League (2002)

| affiliations = None

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| h_pattern_s = _whitesides

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| a_pattern_b = _whitesides

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The Greenville Groove were a National Basketball Development League (NBDL) team based in Greenville, South Carolina. Playing their home games at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena, the Groove was a charter franchise of the league, which had four teams based in the Carolinas. They were the league champions for the inaugural 2001–02 season but the team folded after the 2002–03 season.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the Groove as one of the NBDL's charter franchises in July 2001.{{cite web |url=http://www.nba.com/news/nbdl_teamsannounced_010717.html?nav=ArticleList |title=NBDL team names, colors announced |last=Staff Reporters |date=July 17, 2001 |publisher=National Basketball Association |location=NBA.com |accessdate=June 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106051349/http://www.nba.com/news/nbdl_teamsannounced_010717.html?nav=ArticleList |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |url-status=dead }} On August 16, 2001, the team announced that Stephanie Ready would serve as the team's lone assistant coach in becoming the first woman to serve as a coach on an all-male professional basketball team.{{cite news |title=Ready for the challenge |first=Ira |last=Berkow |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0yUfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=C9AEAAAAIBAJ&dq=greenville-groove&pg=3177%2C5421244 |newspaper=Herald-Journal |location=Spartanburg, SC |date=August 15, 2001 |page=B1 |accessdate=June 5, 2010}} Milton Barnes served as head coach of the first season and won the championship before leaving to become coach of the Harlem Globetrotters.https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2002/07/11/rollins-planting-roots-with-greenville-groove-tree-ex-clemson-star-to-coach-nbdl-team/29645229007/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}} The team had won the inaugural NBDL title in defeating the North Charleston Lowgators two games to zero.{{cite news |title=Greenville claims first NBDL crown |last=Staff Reporters |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OW8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s9AEAAAAIBAJ&dq=champions%20greenville-groove&pg=6745%2C3746402 |newspaper=Herald-Journal |location=Spartanburg, SC |date=April 11, 2002 |page=D4 |accessdate=June 5, 2010}}

Tree Rollins was tapped to serve as the new head coach. However, the league contracted the franchise in June 2003.{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/06/13/nbdl_changes_ap/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102052739/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/06/13/nbdl_changes_ap/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |title=NBDL contracts Groove, Revelers |last=Staff Reporters |date= June 13, 2003 |publisher=Associated Press |location=SI.com |accessdate=June 5, 2010}} Its contraction was carried out by the league due to low attendance and increasing operating losses.{{cite news |title=Greenville Groove shuts down |first=Paul |last=Strelow |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LS8fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=N9AEAAAAIBAJ&dq=greenville-groove&pg=6813%2C5927149 |newspaper=Herald-Journal |location=Spartanburg, SC |date=June 13, 2003 |page=B4 |accessdate=June 5, 2010}}