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KC hopes to pull off what OKC did in 2005 with Hornets by temporarily landing Raptors in 2020

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.