Orlando Miracle
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Orlando Miracle".
Sep 25, 2026
NigelHOST
Connecticut was not an original team.
NigelHOST
It was actually the Orlando Miracle first.
NigelHOST
I've never...
NigelHOST
I don't know if that name
QuitaHOST
No one...
QuitaHOST
Like, if it wasn't for the Mohegan Tribe, guys, we would have, uh, not seen the Orlando Miracle continue.
QuitaHOST
But because the Mohegan Tribe, they got the team in 2003.
QuitaHOST
24 seasons later, uh, they close it out on a win.
Howie CarrHOST
844-500-4242, 844-500-4242.
Jared DiglioPANELIST
For the 8% interested, they were the Orlando Miracle from 1999 to 2002.
Howie CarrHOST
The, the what? The Miracle?
Jared DiglioPANELIST
The Orlando Miracle, yeah-
Howie CarrHOST
Mira-
Jared DiglioPANELIST
... before they moved to Connecticut
Tamryn SpruillGUEST
And then she's like, "I have no grounds to get rid of Kelly Loeffler." Um, but the players were like, "Okay, fine, we'll force her out on our own," and they did.
Tamryn SpruillGUEST
And so I know that Engelbert has donated to the Republican Party, um, so now they have all this power, and she takes a team out of Connecticut that was successful, owned by an indigenous group, the first professional sports team in the country owned by an indigenous group, the Mohegan tribe, who rescued the Orlando Miracle that was about to fold so that it wouldn't fold and they could have a team in 2003.
Tamryn SpruillGUEST
The Sun has a very committed fan base, sold out TD Garden twice, uh, two years in a row, um, beginning in 2024, and okay, I'm not gonna let you sell to a Boston Celtics mino- minority owner who's offering more money and also ponying up an extra $100 million to build the players their own pr- practice facility and have them play in Boston.
Tamryn SpruillGUEST
Strong-arms them into saying, "Well, we didn't approve this sale, so we..." Next in line is Houston, and the owner of the Rockets is appointed by Trump as the ambassador to Italy and San Marino, Tilman Fertitta, billionaire, who also recently bought, um, what is it? Uh, shoot, the name is slipping my mind.