OT: Supersonics

[D-train]

Has to be the two smallest markets in sports right?

[Donn Beach]

Has to be the two smallest markets in sports right?

San Antonio is like a three million metro area, Green Bay is like 300,000, salt lake city, New Orleans are like a million plus. San Antonio is weird, it is like this huge small town but there's a lot of people there

[Donn Beach]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

[D-train]

Has to be the two smallest markets in sports right?

San Antonio is like a three million metro area, Green Bay is like 300,000, salt lake city, New Orleans are like a million plus. San Antonio is weird, it is like this huge small town but there's a lot of people there

How did they don't have a football or baseball team then

[D-train]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

I find all the hate from Seattle fans towards them comical. Like it's that team's fault that Schultz was a piece of s***

[DavidGee24]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

Every time they win the title Seattle should hang a Sonics championship banner at Climate Pledge just as a middle finger to the world. Seriously, DO IT.

[Donn Beach]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

Every time they win the title Seattle should hang a Sonics championship banner at Climate Pledge just as a middle finger to the world. Seriously, DO IT.

Are you following the playoffs David? I'm keeping up with the Spurs - Thunder for the sake of my brother who I bore with my Seahawks blabbering. I've always had a fondness for the Spurs. Kinda like the Rays in baseball. They've got a player in Wemby now, pretty incredible. Funny following my brothers mood. The desolate post Tim Duncan period, tanking, unbelievable luck of winning the lottery, then the opportunity of drafting Wemby., what a chain of events. Now he's back to NBA heaven.

Anyway, this series, it's been like alternating blowouts, seems odd to me. Now we are at game seven back in Oklahoma. I just don't have a feel for it at all.

[Michael K.]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

Presti is a fucking Magician.

[Michael K.]

Speaking of the Thunder. There was a ESPN article like a year ago, calling them the best positioned franchise of any professional sport. Basically they currently have a championship team but they also have like a ton of first round draft picks coming up on the next few years They've stockpiled them through trades. They should domo the next decade. I sent the article to my brother, he didn't respond

I find all the hate from Seattle fans towards them comical. Like it's that team's fault that Schultz was a piece of s***

My hatrid for OKC has faded, but I still won't drink a fucking Starbucks. I have no love for Clay Bennett, but the players and the people in OKC had nothing to do with Stern, Bennett and Schults being Cocksuckers.

Actually, of all those dickweeds? Stern is the worst. Fuck him, rot in Hell dude. He was a Crooked MFer.

Edit: Sometimes it cracks me up when I swear like six times in a post and then abbreviate one!

[Donn Beach]

Yeah, I agree, I actually feel sorry for Howard. He bought the sonics to be liked, be the hometown hero guy and it backfired. He got tired of the hassle, things go sideways with the city. All he wants is to get out of it and now he's the guy that lost the sonics.

Stern took advantage of it and was able to reward OKC with a franchise. I got the feeling he ended up regretting it. His reluctance to allow it to happen again. OKC should have been the expansion franchise. It really was a fucked up mess.

I'm also not sure what an alternative outcome might have been. Just selling it to another local owner wasn't solving all the problems. If that had happened I guess they get moved to Bellevue or something