A professional basketball team, the Kansas City Tornadoes, will play a preseason game at 7 p.m. tonight, Jan. 2, at the HyVee Arena, 1800 Genessee, Kansas City, Missouri.
Admission is free to this preseason game tonight.
Ed Corporal, who is from Kansas City, Kansas, will be the coach for the 2019 season, which has home openers at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, at the HyVee Arena against the Raleigh Firebirds.
Otis Birdsong is the president of the Kansas City Tornadoes.
“It’s a whole new ball game for the Kansas City Tornadoes 2019 season, with a new Coach Ed Corporal, new players, and we are looking forward to playing at the Hy-Vee Arena, formerly Kemper Arena, that was once the home of the Kansas City Kings. The Tornadoes consists of players from colleges across the country, to continue their basketball careers and move on to the next level,” said Otis Birdsong, president, The Kansas City Tornadoes.
During their first season, the Kansas City Tornadoes were in the North American Premier Basketball League, which recently became The Basketball League. The Basketball League will focus on all teams contributing to their communities. The Tornadoes will compete with eight teams that will expand to 14 teams in the 2019 season.