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Has it ready been discussed that CT declared itself the basketball capital of the world recently?



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/ct-installs-basketball-capital-of-the-word-sign-at-mass-border/amp/

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by Hawk2ua

17 Comments

  1. LeMickeyMice

    Ehhh they really don’t have anything going for them let’s give them this

  2. Smart of the state’s government to put up the sign on a highway, figuring no one is going to stop in Connecticut.
    Anyway, I disagree, given the birthplace of the game and the current NBA champions, the basketball capital of the world is not in Connecticut, it’s instead somewhere in New England.

  3. BoozeGetsMeThrough

    “Any man who must say, “I am the King,” is no true king.” 

  4. gumbyguy1985

    Having recently moved here within the last week I can confidently declare the state is the capital of nothing except burnt, thin-crust pizza.

  5. GenoThyme

    Not a recent thing. Dickie V [dubbed Storrs the capital of the basketball world](https://youtu.be/ssXUYwTRQ5A?si=pfyCddW_744tzTBr) back in 1995. Since then, the women’s team have won 11 titles and the men 6. No college has won the men’s and women’s national title in the same year, except for UConn, which has done it twice. It’s was also [added to the court at Gampel](https://www.fox61.com/article/sports/ncaa/uconn/uconn-reveals-new-court-gampel-pavilion/520-16840dcc-228c-4f75-b616-27919a37b88e) last season.

  6. College basketball? They’ve got a more than decent claim to the throne.

  7. I have more problems with “the Pizza Capital of the United States”

  8. Basketball capital of the world? Basketball world capital of what? The United States?!?!

  9. raylan_givens6

    the state with all the rich white folks who work in NY?

    that’s the basketball capital?

    lol, ok

  10. Eh, let them brag. UConn is ridiculously successful.

  11. I for one accept Cam Thomas as the basketball capital of the world

  12. sir_ornery

    Las Vegas is the actual Basketball Capital of the world. We got
.

    UNLV Runnin’ Rebels – 1990 The greatest college basketball team ever assembled. 7th all time winningest program in NCAA.

    Jerry Tarkanian

    The biggest AAU ,holiday and sneaker tourneys dating back to Sonny V. Note: because of Tark, Sonny V is probably the reason that so many events and important people call Vegas Home.

    PAC-1(2), MWC, WCC, WAC and Big West all host their March Tournaments in Las Vegas. Big 12 is next.

    Findlay Prep (RIP)

    NBA Summer League

    Team USA

    2022 & 2023 WNBA Champions the Las Vegas Aces

    2028 Final Four

    The Hardwood Suite at the Palms

    The black jack tables at the Mirage (RIP)

    Vegas it is.

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