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The Lost Game tells the little-known story of a barnstorming basketball team created by Lamar Hunt during club’s early years as the Dallas Texans, which served as an innovative offseason effort that evolved into a decades-long tradition connecting communities and raising money for local causes. Spanning the organization’s early days in Dallas through its move to Kansas City, discover how what began as a creative promotional initiative became a lasting piece of sports and civic history – bringing together players, fans, and communities across generations. Featuring interviews and perspectives from Chiefs legends and sports figures including Pro Football Hall of Famers Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, and Will Shields, alongside contributors such as Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt, longtime team historian Bob Moore, and Kansas City Royals Legend George Brett. Animation by ‪@2TallAnimation‬
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00:00Kansas City, we did it, baby!
00:01Yeah, baby!
00:05Every NFL player thinks he could have played in the NBA, I'm just telling you.
00:11It's not a basketball team of guys that you don't know who they are.
00:15They're all the major players.
00:16We had some ballers.
00:18We were going all over Kansas, Missouri.
00:21We were barnstormers.
00:22We would sell out gyms with 3,000 or 4,000 people.
00:25We played fire departments, police departments, the radio.
00:2849, the Broncos.
00:30They were playing the Royals.
00:31Oh, God.
00:33It got very, very competitive.
00:34I do remember in that game, I broke my thumb.
00:37Why?
00:38They would want to put themselves in harm's way.
00:41It's your funeral, not mine, okay?
00:45My dad was looking for a way to promote during the offseason.
00:50What really surprised me was basketball teams that played on donkeys.
00:56They did have scoopers out there.
00:58Thankfully, they did.
01:00A bunch of guys just went around on the court claiming they could play basketball.
01:03It starts off as charity, but at the end of the day, we always wanted to win.
01:09He slams it and pulls in the rim and it shatters backward.
01:16You know, the whole damn gym felt like it was rattling.
01:21I can tell you what, we didn't play any sharts.

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