OKC STOLE MY TEAM

not going to say your city deserved it, and you seem quite rational with your anger, but the way many Seattle fans have reacted over the years towards the city of Oklahoma City has made all sympathy disappear. If you want to rip the owner, organization, or NBA then go ahead, but we have seen far too many Seattle fans that have trashed our city.

In regards to how we got the team, I’m glad OKC has a team, the fans/ city have proven that they deserve one. But, how else would OKC have gotten a team, the NBA is not expanding any time soon? Take one from another city? There would still be fans upset. Seattle already has an NFL team and a MLB team, so I feel less remorse than say a Memphis.

It sucks that you do not have a team. Your city probably deserves another shot one day. But, it is OKC’s time to enjoy this team and we shouldn’t have to worry about an upset fan bases’ loss.

I think the Thunder has a great team, but I do think Bennett is both a great guy to his hometown (and OKC locals probably are real proud of him for getting the team) and a total douchebag to Seattle. Either way, Oklahoma City has shown that it can support and stand behind an NBA team, even with the bad Hornets in 05-06 and 06-07. Maybe it remains to be seen to see how OKC stands with the Thunder when the team sucks again, which will happen after this current core runs its course. And it isn’t happening anytime soon either.

Another thing some Sonics fans don’t get is that OKC didn’t steal the Sonics. In fact, Bennett bought them and the Seattle Storm WNBA team legally. What I do believe is that he didn’t really give a rats ass about keeping the teams in Seattle from day one, and he sold the Storm off to a group of Seattle business women not as an olive branch to your city, but because if the team moved to Oklahoma City, the team would probably have failed business wise. Look at the Tulsa Shock, not only does the WNBA team suck on the court, no one wants to see WNBA games there. Things wouldn’t have been much better for the Storm on the business end either, even though the team has two legendary players for WNBA standards, but at least the Storm is holding its own in Seattle now after all the crap that’s happened.

The other bad guys are the Seattle business leaders who didn’t step up to buy the Sonics and Storm early enough from Mr. Frappuccino and/or create a solution for a new arena at some point, like Bill Gates, or one of the big boys at Nintendo or Costco? Why didn’t they buy the Sonics and the Storm from Schultz? Or why didn’t they decide to build a new arena for the Sonics and the Storm, so Schultz could keep the teams? They are also just as bad as Bennett.

The two things I feel sorry for Sonics fans about are these. One, the NBA is making it look like the Sonics never existed whenever possible and the Thunder owns the Seattle history too, even if an NBA team came back. Two, is that given that the NBA is not trying to expand, there is no way Seattle is getting an NBA team back in the near future, until a new multipurpose arena is built. Until then, you’re just going to have to watch the Seattle Storm or Washington Huskies basketball, and at least both of those teams are good.