No NBA Guarantee, No Expansion Plans: Seattle Sonics Fans Got Screwed

You know Kansas City is going to fight for a new team with the new Sprint Center. Seattle had better get it going on KeyArena or their NBA life will be history.

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Looks to me like Seattle got $45 million (and likely another $30 million). That isn't "nothing". Nothing is what Seattle was going to get from the judge.

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$45-75 million certainly isn't nothing. What's going to be interesting to see is how Bennett runs his team once it's ensconced in Oklahoma City. One of the main arguments against this move on a practical level is the relative size of the markets. I'm worried that financial considerations are going to result in the Oklahoma City _____'s being run on the cheap, much like the Grizzlies. Speaking of which, looks like Seattle's next best chance is to get the struggling Grizzlies or in a perfect world, the economically struggling Hornets, in 5 years or so.

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....looks like Seattle's next best chance is to get the struggling Grizzlies....

Yep, I knew that crap was going to start. I'm glad to say that the Grizzlies can't move ANYWHERE for a long time.

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Oklahoma City can go screw themselves. Bennett and the Sonics ownership can go screw themselves. David Stern and the league front office can go screw themselves. ESPN and the sports media can go screw themselves for not reporting this. Screw the NBA players and owners for making millions and not giving a flying f*&%k about the communities they live in.

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As a home grown Oklahoman, I totally resent people complaining about the sonics! We are a HUGH sport state, and We helped the Hornets for 2 years and got a great response from our city! If you don't like it...take a flying leap. We will have our NBA team and we will show all of you the it's a good thing! Our Ford Center EXCEEDED NBA requirments for an NBA team to play in, when when welcomed (with open arms)the Hornets to play here, and the Hornets liked it here! The NBA agreed that our Ford Center created a great enviroment! We will prevail and we will treat the players & the team with the utmost respect. To bad you all can't be happy for the team & their players! Sour grapes...sour grapes

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Seattle can have our Pacers. We are done with them in Indiana.

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I'm not going to tell Oklahoma City off or get mad at NBA fans in their state. What I wish they would understand is that they aren't getting their own team. They are getting Seattle's team... OUR team. The Seattle Supersonics, no matter what you end up calling them, will always be our Sonics, not yours. If you were such a great town, you'd get your own team. Seattle fans just got scr*wed buy wealthy owners and midwesterners who could care less about the state of Washington, Key Arena Businesses and loyal ticket holders.

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That's right Nancy Ann, if Seattle wanted to keep a team then they need to do what it takes. What idiotic remarks Dean made. OKC HAS a great market. Obviously the folks who don't think so don't know a darned thing about Oklahoma. We are the most sport crazy state in the Union. The OU games are televised at the Post Office and every other business for heaven sake, just so people who have to leave their TVs during a game won't miss the plays. You people need to know what you're talking about before you try to put down OUR state. What sour grapes, I feel sorry for your ignorance.

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What the hell did you expect the city of Seattle to get out of this in the end beyond some money and a few empty assurances? They were lucky to get even that. If you've been paying attention over the course of the last couple of years then you know that the NBA left Seattle in spirit awhile ago and today was little more than the funeral and burial. Much of what has gone in recent months was little more than smoke screens that were doomed to accomplish little in the way of keeping the team in Seattle as there were too few people who truly matter that wanted that to be the ultimate result. I do not expect NBA basketball to remain a huge deal in Oklahoma City once the novelty of having a permanent franchise wears off in three or four years (sorry Jan, OK is simply NOT the country's most sports crazy state for a lot of different reasons, sure got your damn nerve to sit there and talk about people and their supposed ignorance), but the Okies won't be able to say that they never got a legitimate shot at the big time now as the league got them what they wanted in the end after teasing them, perhaps unnecessarily, with the Hornets.

P.S. I'd just like to take this opportunity to tell Dizzo from post #5 to go screw himself. Sorry moron, it was only obvious that you were the next in line. No idiot, I couldn't care less what you think.

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seattle should feel blessed and find something constuctive to do with thier time and $. think about it,sitting there getting excited watching these thugs running up and down the floor acting illiterate,and making millions because you think it's important for your life. one step closer to third worldism my friends!!!
an idea,go find local high school or college sports teams if you have this burning desire to watch competition the NBA is only a show and your the jerk for making it possible!

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You can go screw yourself, Dizzo.

Welcome to sports business. Sure it sucks, but the city had every opportunity to keep the Sonics and they pissed it away.

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Congrats to OKC for getting your wish. However, did you see the Sonics play last season? They are a mere Durrant ACL blowout from total oblivion. We should all give a big thanks to the Seattle citizens for not giving in to the pressure to use public funds to build an arena. All cities need to stop this practice or it will consume us. Seattle is the first and we should keep it going. Wait and see; this will be the biggest disaster in OKC since the Murrah building.

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seattle"ians": if you want to watch good b-ball, go watch a good h.s team or any of the colleges or universities located in the area. the nba is a bunch of thugs who are overpaid and could care less about the fans or acting in the best interest of the community. a least the coll. & h.s. teams are comprised of players who play for the fun of it, at least for the most part.

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seattle"ians": if you want to watch good b-ball, go watch a good h.s team or any of the colleges or universities located in the area. the nba is a bunch of thugs who are overpaid and could care less about the fans or acting in the best interest of the community. a least the coll. & h.s. teams are comprised of players who play for the fun of it, at least for the most part.

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Reply To Dave:

For as much as you type negatively about the Great state of Oklahoma, I would bet anything that you have never even set one foot on Oklahoma grounds. So you have no right to comment on how we are about sports. Its ashame when you're own pure ignorance shows just through a text comment. Dave do us all a favor, please, don't post a comment on some implied knowledge you think you have.

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Oklahoma City sucks. We know that Seattle just got SCREWED big time. I am a Portland Trail Blazers fan and I am irate at what has happened here to the Sonics. If they can do that to you up north, they sure can try and SCREW Portland over someday when they feel it is time to do so.
Sonics fans got the shaft by a super greedy owner. Oklahoma will always suck in sports period.

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At least Seattle has the WNBA franchise and can keep the Sonics monkier. Unlike the New Orleans Jazz which became the Utah Jazz yeech!

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