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With all that there is no mention of the fact the people, poltiical leaders and business leaders in Seattle couldn't put together support for a new arena. That's the reason there is no NBA team in Seattle.
But they did put up a whole truck load of money to renovate key arena and then less than a decade later the NBA and current ownership deemed it inadequate
I always wanted to upstart a secondary national basketball league for the United States and maybe Canada - featuring the return of teams to current non-NBA cities, like Seattle, Baltimore and St. Louis. Plus other large cities like San Jose, Columbus, Omaha, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, etc.