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  1. 2. Now owned by outfielder that went .202 for his career, Grandmama was cooking with Rice, team moved so the NBA made a BET on a new owner who named them after himself, they switched names again to a scarier mascot tht attacks the nervous system with th same chemical asthe WMD Sarin gas.
  2. 4. 66 expansion team, from the fifty-third most populus city, luckily not really angered by red, first to 70 in one with a Worm and a Goat
  3. 7. NBL team of Gems, moved for 15k to Gopher State with Mr. Basketball; the moniker no longer fits.
  4. 8. More than 38 for about four months, cyclically regenerates from Greek Mythology, two-time HOF War Eagle, and a 36-year-old Diesel.
  5. 9. Deep roots in Blues and Ragtime, then the family Vespidae, now shares heraldry with St Martin, Barbados, St Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  6. 10. BAA team, a cardinal coach that won the best of seven nine times on the parquet
  7. 12. Started faster than 343 meters per second in the 60s, sold by a coffee CEO to The Big Friendly, temporarily housed a Cat5 Point God and Birdman.
  8. 15. Founded in the Athens of America before heading to the west wear they made a Splash, they no longer wear headdresses but are still brave fighters
  9. 17. An ABA Lark that was supposed to Rocket to Paris of the Plains but eventually landed in Wall Street of the West where aurum was plentiful.
  10. 18. These tatankas moved to Moline with Leo Farris 24 seconds at a time before heading to The Good Land for a handful, moved through the Gateway with a Red Stick Bombardier before making a final stop with a 44 pistol from the same area. Now tetrachromats with adjectives torch, legacy, infinity, and granite.
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  1. 1. Syracuse NBL team, moved to replace a team shipped to Oaktown; fifty-six delegates signed the Committee of Five’s Pronouncment for the name, Chairman of the Boards, The Big Dipper, Chocolate Thunder, and MD.
  2. 3. These Braves spread their wings to switch time zones to America's Finest City; now it's harder to see those merchant sailing vessels in the bay.
  3. 5. Replaced the Chaparrals, who moved to River City, carried by a Buck from the Western Block.
  4. 6. Pioneers, leaders on a path from Stumptown with The Glide and Sabonis Sr., then used 6th pick to get a ROTY Ogden, Utah Wildcat.
  5. 11. The Forest City Miracle was actually in Richfield, where they out shot the Bullets, Craig and Lawrence Sr. couldn’t stop The Shot, The King of St. Vincent came from Rubber City to save them, a Black Hebrew Israelite flat earther was took the reigns before the Return of the King
  6. 13. Name rhymes with the the other two pro teams in town that they don’t technically play in, although 180 million years ago they would’ve played near North Africa with Vinsanity and some Kidd, they finally had a prospect to move back to Cosell’s neighborhood in the biggest of the five.
  7. 14. HOFer Mr. Pro Basketball and his sister Janet took his foundry and named his team from the City of Churches after it, they moved to a city on the mitten thumb knuckle that lost their Eagles in WWII, lost their Gems in a Lake, and lost their Falcons and Vagabond Kings, these boys were bad with Mr. Wonderful, Daly
  8. 16. Play in the Mecca in a garden in a borough, Irving's name of pants traced to the Dutch