ESPN: The Oklahoma City are Thunder willing to gift the Seattle SuperSonics their history back if resurrected.

Now that the NBA's TV deal is complete, expansion is up next. So when will it happen and who will be involved?

As the discussion of NBA expansion heats up, latest rumors signal that a Seattle expansion team would receive its history from the Thunder.

A deal between Seattle and the Thunder ensures the Sonics name and history would come back if the NBA returns to Seattle.

Since then, KeyArena has been renovated to be an up-to-date arena and renamed Climate Pledge Arena. The NHL's Seattle Kraken and WNBA's Seattle Storm host their home games there. If it's good ...

For years, the issue with the NBA's return to Seattle was the lack of a replacement for KeyArena, deemed inadequate by the league as part of the Sonics' move. That changed in 2021 when the ...

Seattle wanted to keep their franchise ... to the owner of a new NBA team approved to play at a renovated KeyArena at no cost. That agreement laid out the terms of shared ownership of Sonics ...

The NBA has been looking to add expansion teams for quite some time, but there are many questions revolving around the Thunder and Sonics.