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Basketball

mwmisses4289

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1. Seattle had a basketball team until 2008.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 12:53 PM

12 hrs ago

Iirc, they left because the owner threw a snit fit over the fact that Seattle wouldn't build him a brand new state of the art court. It seems like the new franchise is going back to the original court.

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