Everett to get hoops team

The Everett Explosion is scheduled to be the newest team to call the Everett Events Center home.

The International Basketball League, a second-year minor-league professional-basketball league, has announced that Everett will be one of seven expansion teams added to the men's league in 2007-08.

The IBL now has 24 teams, including these Northwest teams: the Seattle Mountaineers, Tacoma Thunder, Vancouver (Wash.) Volcanoes, Portland Chinooks and Salem (Ore.) Stampede. Donald Watts, a former University of Washington basketball star, is Seattle's second-leading scorer.

League information: www.iblhoopsonline.com.