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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
That year, two years before Ray Kroc purchased McDonald's.[233]Phoenix is home to several professional sports franchises, and until recently, was one of only 13 U.S. metropolitan areas to have representatives of all four major professional sports leagues, although only one of these teams actually carry the city name and two of them play within the city limits.[234][235]PHX Arena in downtown Phoenix, home to the Phoenix SunsThe Phoenix Suns were the first major sports team in Phoenix, being granted a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise in 1968.[236] They lost the 1976 NBA Championship to the Boston Celtics in 6 games. They had originally played at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum before moving to America West Arena (now PHX Arena) in 1992.[237] The year following their move to the new arena, the Suns made it to the NBA Finals for the second time in franchise history, losing to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, four games to two.[238] The U.S. Airways Center hosted both the 1995 and the 2009 NBA All-Star Games.[239] They also lost the 2021 NBA Finals in six games to the Milwaukee Bucks.The Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball began play as an expansion team in 1998. The team has played all of its home games in the same downtown park, now known as Chase Field.[240][241] It is the second highest stadium in the U.S. (after Coors Field in Denver), and is known for its swimming pool beyond the outfield fence.[242] In 2001, the Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees four
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