In 2006, Colorado businessmen Tim Wiens and John Frew, who were building the Broomfield Event Center at the Arista development in Broomfield, Colorado, acquired a new minor league basketball team to attract fans in the northwest Denver-Boulder region.

The team won 28–22 in its first season, and broke various records for Colorado minor league basketball, from scoring to attendance.

[citation needed] The team's leaders included Von Wafer and Louis Amundson, who joined the NBA by the end of the season.

Five others joined the NBA, including the simultaneous call-ups of Dickens and Billy Thomas on February 22, 2008, by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The 14ers' six consecutive wins at the end of the season put them in the playoffs as a wild card, but they lost in the first round to the Los Angeles D-Fenders.

The new roster included Eddie Gill, Billy Thomas, and Jamar Brown, who had played for the Colorado Crossover.

Finishing with a record of 34 wins, the 14ers played at home for the playoffs, and defeated the Erie BayHawks, Austin Toros, and Utah Flash to become the D-League champions.

On June 18, 2009, a Dallas Mavericks executive, Donnie Nelson, purchased the 14ers, and moved the team to Frisco, Texas.

[13][14] He was replaced by Bob MacKinnon Jr.,[15] who had previously been the head coach when the 14ers won a D-League championship in Colorado.

The team is owned by Texas D-League Management, LLC, which is principally owned by Donnie Nelson, former general manager and President of Basketball Operations for the Dallas Mavericks and son of former NBA head coach Don Nelson.