Common Ground YYC – S3E4: Usman Tahir Jutt and Jason Ribeiro of the Calgary Surge

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What does it take to bring a professional basketball team to Calgary? Find out here.

How does a professional basketball team come to Calgary? 

In this month’s episode of Common Ground YYC, you get the inside scoop on how the Calgary Surge came to this city. 

Common Ground YYC host, and LiveWire Calgary editor Darren Krause, sat down with the principal architects of the plan to bring the team here, Usman Tahir Jutt and Jason Ribeiro. 

The one thing that sticks out is the importance of community in delivering a basketball product to Calgarians. You learn their personal motivations for why that’s so important for them and the Calgary Surge. 

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