BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…October 10, 1982:

The first basketball game ever played in the BSU Pavilion, now ExtraMile Arena, is not a Boise State game, but an NBA exhibition between the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. The Blazers’ 113-109 victory drew a crowd of 8,428 to the new facility. Both teams were led by the same coaches that took them to NBA championships two years apart in the late 1970s: Jack Ramsay for Portland and Lenny Wilkens for Seattle. Both the Blazers and Sonics would go on to winning seasons, and they’d meet in the first round of the NBA Playoffs the following spring (Portland won that series).

In terms of attendance, the Boise game was the largest preseason game in the country that year outside of an NBA arena. The the only game to top it was

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