The Steel City Yellow Jackets are a basketball team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Yellow Jackets began play on November 8, 2014 as an expansion team competing in the ABA's Northeast Division.
The Steel City Yellow Jackets were originally owned by national recording Hip hop artist Antjuan "Tjuan Benafactor" Washington and Averill 'Ace' Pippens, who also serves as the team's general manager and head coach.
In August 2023, the team announced it would not participate in the 2023–24 ABA season after Averill Pippens was named head coach of Westinghouse High School.
[3] Gilmore Cummings and other veteran players from the team attempted to play that season as the Pennsylvania Starz, but were thrown out of the ABA after infringing on the Yellow Jackets' territorial rights by staging a game within Pittsburgh city limits.