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Springfield Armor
The Springfield Armor was an NBA Development League basketball team located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Armor played its home games at the MassMutual Center in Springfield's Metro Center neighborhood. The team was owned by HWS Basketball, LLC which is principally owned by Michael Savit, previously the Senior Vice President of International Management Group. His 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.〔http://hwsbaseball.com/〕 The Armor moved to Massachusetts in 2009 after three seasons in Anaheim, California as the Anaheim Arsenal. The team moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2014, with its current name being Grand Rapids Drive.〔
Since the start of the 2011–2012 season, the Springfield Armor had been the official and exclusive affiliate of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets. The Armor was the second team to opt for the D-League's "hybrid affiliation." Local ownership maintains control over business, marketing, and day-to-day operations in Springfield, but basketball operations were controlled by the Nets. Prior to this, the only other D-League "hybrid affiliation" was between the D-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers and the NBA's Houston Rockets. According to America Online, "The hybrid model has been very well received by GMs and owners, and considering the massive success the Rockets have had with the model, both in winning D-League games and developing NBA-caliber talent (many of whom received the call from the Rockets for stints last season), it's no surprise that the Nets elected for this version of ownership." Many other NBA D-League teams have since adopted this model.
==Springfield – ''The Birthplace of Basketball''==
The City of Springfield is nicknamed ''The Birthplace of Basketball'' because the sport was invented there in 1891. Springfield College teacher James Naismith invented the game to fill-in the gap between the fall's football season and the summer's baseball season. Basketball became popular quickly and became an Olympic sport in 1936. Springfield is also home to basketball's most prestigious site, the Basketball Hall of Fame, which honors the game's greatest players, coaches, and contributors. Each year hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world visit the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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