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Practice Strings (Basics)

Create strings, concatenate them, find their length with len(), and interpolate values using f-strings.

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Format Basketball Team Name

Write a function format_team_name that receives a string containing a basketball team name possibly padded with spaces. The function should return the name stripped of leading/trailing whitespace and converted to uppercase.

Examples:

format_team_name(" Lakers ") == "LAKERS"
format_team_name("celtics") == "CELTICS"

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