07-03-2008, 01:07 PM | #11 |
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Maybe it has to do with the long-term success seen in smaller markets like Green Bay and Salt Lake City, supporting their one and only team for decades. Same story with remote universities like Nebraska and Penn State. There 'aint much else to do in OKC, so why not fill the arena.
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07-03-2008, 02:17 PM | #12 |
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IIRC, the owner and his associates are from Oklahoma. Bringing the only pro-sports team to the State of Oklahoma would be a pretty big deal I'd think.
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07-03-2008, 02:18 PM | #13 |
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07-03-2008, 04:13 PM | #14 |
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The NBA is a disgrace. Letting the Sonics leave Seattle is just another in a long line of screw ups by David Stern. He is a terrible commissioner.
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07-03-2008, 04:39 PM | #15 |
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I happily embrace the Sonics departure. This is capitalism and the free market working at its finest.
Any of you so-called fiscal conservatives out there who are opposed to an owner moving his business wherever he sees fit are really liberals in disguise. Seattle had its chance to keep the team. They were too cheap to pay the price. So they lose. Tough luck. Maybe next time they won't be so cheap. Kudos to the OKC Sonics and best of luck to them in the future.
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Ian Furness was just on ESPNews doing his best Stephen A. Smith impression. He called out the owner, former owner, and the mayor of Seattle as "bad guys" and "buffoons." I had forgotten about him until this interview. Perhaps this will help him hit the big time.
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The NBA said yesterday the Key can work as an NBA arena – if it's renovated. This was NOT an option with the OK group. When they bought the team they said so - give us $500M (for a building) or we're gone. Ballmer said he'd personally pay $350M to upgrade the Key, if he could buy the franchise. They were offered free land and didn't care. They were never going to stay. The Sonics were gone once that asshat Schultz sold the team. Quote:
I tuned into OK sports radio today and they were so stoked to have the NBA that all of the calls and topics were about OU football. FYI, the NBA team in OKC will not be called the Sonics.
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Also, why is it the NBA's fault that a private owner sells his team to another private investor and that investor wants to move it? Stop intruding on someone's self-owned business. If he wants to buy it and move it to OKC, then what is the problem? Even if people are talking about the Sooners on the radio? Free market at its finest.
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Regardless the Sonics moving is a travesty imo. I also suspect that DDD shed a tear when the Raiders moved to Oakland.
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But I never claimed it was "not fair." LA had the chance to keep the Raiders but they got distracted by a sutpid land grab that is still going on to this very day. So was I bummed that we lost the Raiders? Sure. Was it "unfair" or was it "the NFL's fault?" No. Seattle wants to try to paint this as an NBA con job. In reality, Seattle should have agreed to the new ownership's demands and pay for the arena. If they didnt want to pay (which is fine, too), then they should not whine about unfairness. What is really laughable is that Seattle sees that a rich investor with ties to OKC buys their team....and he makes a very clear demand to pay up or else.....so Seattle calls his bluff and then gets burned. What else were they expecting?
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