Salt Lake City Stars
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| League | NBA Development League |
| Founded | 1997 |
| History |
Idaho Stampede 1997–2016 CBA: 1997–2006 NBA D-League: 2006-present Salt Lake City Stars 2016–present |
| Arena | Lifetime Activities Center-Bruin Arena |
| Location | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Team colors | Navy, dark yellow, white |
| Head coach | Dean Cooper |
| Ownership | Utah Jazz |
| Affiliation(s) | Utah Jazz |
| Championships | 1 (2008) |
| Division / Conference titles | 3 (2001, 2007, 2008) |
| Website | SLCstars.com |
The Salt Lake City Stars is an American basketball team that plays in the NBA Development League. The team is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Beginning in the 2016–17 season, the Stars will play at the Lifetime Activities Center-Bruin Arena, on the campus of Salt Lake Community College.
Prior to the move to Salt Lake City for the 2016–2017 season, the team was known as the Idaho Stampede.
From 2005 to 2015, the team played as the Idaho Stampede at the CenturyLink Arena in Boise. Before then, they played home games at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa. The team was founded as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in 1997 and was league runner-up in the 2003–04 season, losing to the Dakota Wizards. After the 2005–06 season, the Stampede announced that the team would be joining the NBA Development League. The Stampede's sole NBA affiliate is the Utah Jazz, with whom they originally had a hybrid partnership. However, on March 24, 2015, the Utah Jazz and the Idaho Stampede announced that the Jazz had purchased the Stampede, becoming the 8th NBA team to become owners of their D-League affiliate. They also had past affiliations with the Denver Nuggets, Seattle SuperSonics, Toronto Raptors and most recently the Portland Trail Blazers, with the Jazz taking sole affiliation after the 2013-2014 season. In the Stampede's first D-League season, the team won the Western Division title, tying for the best record in the league.
On April 25, 2008, the Stampede defeated the Austin Toros, 108–101, in Game 3 of the D-League finals. It was the first title in team history in either the CBA or the D-League. Ever since they lost to the Austin Toros in the 2009 NBA Development League Playoffs, they've never returned to the playoffs, with a 70-80 record for the past three seasons. Earlier in the season, in January 2008, the team had hosted the annual D-League Showcase, in which all the league's teams played two games each in a five-day period.
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