Kansas City officials hope they can pull off what Oklahoma City did for the New Orleans Hornets in 2005: by temporarily landing the Toronto Raptors before the 2020-21 NBA season.
In 2005, the NBA granted the Hornets to play most of their games in OKC after Hurricane Katrina destruction of the city and its arena.
In 2013, then-State Senator, now OKC Mayor, David Holt, told me that then-Mayor Mick Cornett wanted the city to land a sports team. After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Cornett picked up the phone to talk to then-NBA Commissioner David Stern to offer his city as a landing spot for the Hornets to land.