I am sure there had already been a thread about this, but as a die hard basketball fan, I hate the fact that we're about to lose four decades of basketball tradition in one of the best and most renowned basketball towns around. There is just so much tradition there, so much history. It's really disheartening to think about the possibility of Seattle without the Supersonics...all is not right with the basketball world.
I agree...i wish there was something they could do to keep the team there. Seattle deserves an NBA franchise..
this is what they get for always beating us in the playoffs. i hope gary payton is rolling over in his grave. but seriously, it does suck that a great basketball town is having its team taken b/c the owner for some reason bought the team just to move it. and to oklahoma city? oklahoma? come on now.
Yes, Seattle has been a good home for the team (or so I thought). I hope they keep the name in Seattle, however. Moving it to Oklahoma would be a travesty. That franchise and that city deserve more than that.
As long as they keep the team history and records in Seattle for another franchise to go there, I'm okay with it. Just think its stupid how the NBA thinks good markets are small cities that have nothing else to do but go watch an NBA game.
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Huh? The Seattle metro area has a population of 3.2 million people while OKC metro is only 1.2 million people.
If you think about it, it's part of our identity as Rockets fans. Identity is -- at least in part -- formed in relation to the "other," and the Sonics were probably our biggest nemesis during those championship years, and the years leading up to that. Their history as a franchise is an integral part of Rockets basketball. I almost feel like that's being taken away from us. Without teams like the Sonics and the Jazz and the Mavericks and the Lakers being where they are and who they are, being a "Rockets fan" loses its meaning.
that's true. and the part of my rockets identity they formed was me wishing bad things happen to them.
ehh.where do you get ur numbers from...maybe 3.5 million in the whole state..lol MAYBE... Seattle has a much bigger fan base.. such a tragedy
It reminds me of an open-air stadium on Lake Erie that was filled to the brim for decades (starting in 1950's) whether the team was 16-0 or 0-16. Taxpayers...build ME a new stadium with your $$$ and put sky boxes in it that provide ME additional revenue. If you don't, I'll move the team to Baltimore. Screw Art Modell and screw professional football. The NBA-SEA debacle has the ingredients for me to be a college-only sports follower.
Nothing is fair in life, they could have built a stadium.... Sucks for the fans though, they should take a lesson from Houston and see how much more it cost the city and taxpayers to lure a new NFL franchise when they could have kept the original one for much less money. DD
I'm far from a Sonics fan and I hated them at one point but it is terrible that they are leaving Seattle. I really hate it for the team, the city, and the NBA. It really makes me lose respect for the league because they are allowing it to happen.
