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While we get ready for the Stadium reveal, the Pittsburgh Hammers have hired Tim Duncan as our new head coach.
We also will be putting our G-League team in my home town of Green Bay, Wisconsin! They will be known as the Papermakers.
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The Minnesota Giants will be hiring Nick Nurse to coach the team. Our G-League affiliate will be the Winnipeg Goldrunners, after the Golden Boy statue that calls the city home. Announcements on arena will follow.
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The Vancouver Caribou have hired Steve Nash as our head coach. As for our G-League team, it will play in Anchorage, Alaska and will be called the Anchors.
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The Chicago Bulldogs have hired Scotty Pippen as the team's new head coach and announced a partnership with the Toronto Parliament of the G-League.
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Copper Sun Entertainment, the owners of the Los Angeles Olympians, are proud to announce our head coach and G-League affiliate. Our team's new head coach will be Frank Vogel, and our G-League team will be placed in San Diego with the name San Diego Stevedores
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The Pittsburgh Hammers played since their inception in 1963 at the Civic Arena, also known as the Mellon Arena or "The Igloo", through 2019. The Arena was demolished and the Hammers shared a home with University of Pittsburgh Panthers for 2020 while the new stadium was constructed for the start of the 2021 season.
For the 2021 season, the Hammers will be moving into the brand new Dick's Arena. Naming rights were sold to locally headquartered Dick's Sporting Goods. The stadium was built with plenty of glass and local steel, but with an eye to the future and sustainability. With grass planted on the exterior of the building to help with emissions and heat retention and using all LED bulbs and solar panels on the roof, the arena strives to be the arena with the lowest carbon footprint of any arena in North America. Seating 20,300 people, Dick's is a premier sporting arena, and one that Pittsburgh will be glad to call home for decades to come.
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For years, the Kemper Arena played home to the Kansas City Marshals. From its opening in 1974, it seated 17,500 eager fans, with capacity for 2000 more added in 1996. The venue has hosted many prominent events, including many college basketball tournaments and one Republican National Convention. The building began to show its age, though, so it was converted into a youth sports facility in 2017.
To replace the beloved but weary Kemper Arena, construction began in 2015 on a new stadium. JHA Holdings, which is the non-temporally constrained group that owns the Marshals, wanted something new, unique, and different for such a special team. Thus, the Log Cabin Center was built just down the street from Kemper, just south of I-670, directly on the Missouri-Kansas border. The most unique identifying feature of the building was the lower-level seating. On the north and south (long) sides of the court, where shallow bowl seating might be found in an ordinary stadium, there is seating for 500 in a dinner-theater manner. Along with the seat, each ticket entitles a guest to a four-course meal (served over the four quarters). Meal options are plentiful, with full customization on the Marshals app. The most popular entree is the half-rack of KC BBQ ribs. The interior vibe is rustic, with exposed wooden rafters, a raised court, and a halftime Western pageant. The exterior has a facade that resembles log cabins of a time long gone. On the Western end of the court is no seating, but rather a large grassy hillside with a view inside through the three large glass doors, which can be opened in pleasant weather. There is general admission to "the Mound" at a well-discounted price. The rest of the seating in the upper bowl and other end comprises molded plastic seating produced specifically to allow fans to remain comfortably in their seats for hours of action. Other amenities include an Applebees that is open year-round that overlooks the court from the northeastern corner, The Saloon in the southeastern corner, and both a Freddy's and a Culver's. Overall, the capacity remains lower than in the glory days at Kemper, with room for only 14,500 fans inside. The naming sponsor is department store chain Marshalls, who jumped at the opportunity for a partnership. Thus, fans from KCMO and KCK alike enjoy coming down to "The Marshalls Log" to watch basketball and enjoy fine fare. The Marshalls Log Cabin Center opened for the last home game of the 2015-2016 season and will remain open for the foreseeable future.
(Despite the stadium being in both KCMO and KCK, all team offices are in Kansas for tax reasons and all concessions vendors are in Missouri for convenience. Thus, the team is most technically from Kansas.)
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That grassy area might be some REALLY lousy seating in winter when basketball is typically played.
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The Albuquerque Invaders are proud to announce the addition of current Hornets head coach and native Burqueño James Borrego to our coaching staff:
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Dan O'Mac wrote:
That grassy area might be some REALLY lousy seating in winter when basketball is typically played.
There are 16500 fully functioning indoor seats if you don't want to sit in the cold. Doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.