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Louisville Rockets? Report: City wants Houston's NBA, WNBA, Arena teams
Posted: Wednesday February 09, 2000 12:38 AM
HOUSTON (AP) -- The city of Louisville is pursuing the Houston Rockets, the WNBA Comets and the ThunderBears Arena Football franchise, a television station reports. Louisville officials have called Rockets management to let the team know of their interest in luring the franchises to their city, KRIV-TV in Houston reported Tuesday night, citing unidentified sources. The lawyer representing Louisville in relocation negotiations, Bruce Miller, told the station he is talking with four NBA teams, but did not name them. Miller said Louisville plans to build a new arena. "There is a team that is interested in talking and has requested a formal proposal from us. We are in the process of completing it," Miller said. "I don't want any inference to be drawn that it is a team in Houston because that could be significantly wrong." Rockets' chief operating officer George Postolos also declined to say which cities have contacted the Rockets. Houston voters rejected a referendum for a new arena in November. Les Alexander, who owns all three teams, has said he must have an arena to be competitive. "When we lost the referendum in November, we said that we are going to take a step back and look at our alternatives and that includes fielding inquiries from other cities," Postolos told the television station. "We have received a number of inquiries and we will respond to those. We don't intend to comment beyond that."
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