SEATTLE -- The NBA is returning to Seattle -- for the preseason, that is.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers will play a preseason game at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena on Oct. 3, the teams announced Wednesday.
It will be the first NBA event since the former KeyArena was gutted and reconstructed as the home of the NHL's Seattle Kraken and WNBA's Seattle Storm.
The final event in the previous version of the building was an NBA preseason game between the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings in October 2018.