The Seattle basketball community have been waiting 17 years to get back their NBA team, the Seattle Sonics, or Seattle Supersonics. Based on recent reports from ESPN, the NBA is planning to have expansion teams ready to play in the 2027-28 season.

After a preseason game in Seattle, multiple prominent NBA members have called for the league to return to the city.

On Friday night, the Los Angeles Clippers narrowly defeated the Portland Trail Blazers, 101-99, in a preseason matchup. But for this game, what mattered wasn’t so much the “what” as the “where.” Friday marked the third edition of the Rain City Showcase,

Many fans in the Seattle area still hold anger in their hearts over the circumstances that surrounded the Supersonics' departure from the Pacific Northwest. On one hand, the Rain City Showcase is a great opportunity for Seattle to show off its passion for the NBA and how well the league's return would be received.

Friday’s Rain City Showcase at Climate Pledge Arena featured the Clippers and Trail Blazers but a lot of the chatter centered on a potential Sonics return.