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The Springfield NBA Development League team is a temporary name given to a team that will play in the NBA Development League. On March 31, 2009, the NBADL awarded the city of Springfield, Massachusetts with an expansion franchise.[1] The relocation of the Anaheim Arsenal, Springfield will begin play in the 2009-10 season and will play at the MassMutual Center. The team will be owned by HWS Basketball, LLC which is principally owned by Michael Savit, previously the Senior Vice President of International Management Group and whose HWS Baseball group owns and operates four minor-league baseball teams; the Southern League's Mobile BayBears, the California League's Modesto Nuts, the New York-Penn League's Mahoning Valley Scrappers, and the Coastal Plain League's Columbia Blowfish. [2]
Springfield is known as the "Birthplace of Basketball," because it was at Springfield College that gym teacher James Naismith invented the game in 1891. It is also home to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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www.nba.com/dleague/springfield/ - Official Website
