Alex Wolfe

For whatever reason, I think they changed ownership in the late 2000s, and then the owner, for whatever reason, really wanted to move them to Oklahoma City and just take them out of Seattle.

But the Seattle fan base was really passionate, but it was like an arena issue where the city didn't want to pay for a new arena or something.

And so they moved them to Oklahoma City, and Seattle has been starved for basketball since then.

They now have a WNBA team.

I think they'll play in the new arena.

It's a sick arena.

It's not final yet, but presumably that is where they will play.

Climate change arena?

Climate change arena.

Climate change arena is crazy.

But now they're getting a team.

It's actually interesting, too, not to get too into the weeds, but there's been multiple times in the NBA where teams have moved and then come back or whatever.

And it's created this weird history thing.

gap for certain teams like so for example the uh charlotte hornets back in the day moved to new orleans it became the new orleans hornets uh but then they eventually added another team to charlotte called the charlotte bobcats and so then they were like well do we get the hornets history and it was like no you're a new team you don't get history but then new orleans was like well we don't like the name hornets we're going to change our name to the pelicans

So there's the New Orleans Pelicans now.

And then Charlotte with the Bobcats was like, wait, Hornets is on the table again.

So let's become the Hornets again.

And now people are like, wait, so do the New Orleans Pelicans own the Charlotte Hornets history or do the Charlotte Hornets own the Charlotte Hornets history?

I don't know a tech version of that one.

It's not a perfect one-to-one.