Report: NBA, Kevin Durant to Return to Seattle for Preseason Game
Reports are saying that NBA basketball could soon be coming back to the Key Arena.
By Dan Shafer February 21, 2018
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that an NBA preseason game will be played at Key Arena this fall, before the 2018-19 season, and former Seattle Sonic Kevin Durant will be part of the game.
Ailene Voisin reports that the Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors have scheduled a preseason game in Seattle “according to multiple league sources.”
“The Oct. 6 meeting between Northern California teams will be the first NBA game in the Key Arena since the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City after the 2007-08 season and became the Thunder. The contract has not yet been completed, the sources said,” the report says.
Kevin Durant played for the Sonics during his rookie season before the team was relocated to Oklahoma City.
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Update: ESPN’s Kevin Pelton (a Seattle resident) confirmed the report.
As first reported by @ailene_voisin, the Warriors plan to host the Kings in a preseason game in Seattle this fall, bringing Kevin Durant back to where he began his NBA career: https://t.co/g0WnjNLeY3
Kevin Pelton (@kpelton) February 22, 2018
Plus: read our November 2017 cover story on the debate over efforts to bring the Sonics back to Seattle, and read managing editor John Levesque’s recent column on Tim Leiweke, cofounder and CEO of Oak View Group, the Los Angeles based firm that’s working with the city of Seattle to bring new life to Key Arena.