Fuck David Stern, Fuck Aubrey McClendon and fuck Clay Bennett.
Two out of three ain't bad.
So far.
You're missing Schultz.
Howard Schultz is already dead to me.
Do you not drink Starbucks to stick it to him?
Forget the millions of dollars he generates for charity. Pissed off he sold HIS basketball team for the most money. How dare he!
Only Howard claimed he had a higher $ offer(s) but sold the team to Clay Clay and Aubs because they committed they'd keep the Sonics in Seattle. Which they did.
Fuck David Stern, Fuck Aubrey McClendon and fuck Clay Bennett.
Two out of three ain't bad.
So far.
You're missing Schultz.
Howard Schultz is already dead to me.
Do you not drink Starbucks to stick it to him?
Forget the millions of dollars he generates for charity. Pissed off he sold HIS basketball team for the most money. How dare he!
Only Howard claimed he had a higher $ offer(s) but sold the team to Clay Clay and Aubs because they committed they'd keep the Sonics in Seattle. Which they did.
Great benefactor, man.
His decision. I don't give a fuck what he could have done or what anyone thinks he should have done. Why is this so hard? I get people are pissed but the Sonics are not owned by a public entity.
Seattle fucked themselves with their love affair with the Seattle Center
And having a shitty owner who sold us out
Yep. Schultz is enemy #1 for selling the team. I bet he regrets that now. He could have taken some short term losses for bigger money later.
Anyone with any sense knew Bennett wanted to move the team.
The arena bullshit hasn’t been fixed since the Sonics left despite the “close calls.”
I got over the Sonics leaving a year or two after it happened. I don’t care one bit now that they are gone. I remember going to games their last few years and they did lack fan support. Everyone was suddenly a huge fan once they were gone.
I like to tell people to lose millions with their business. It's what I like to do.
He could have personally financed several arenas and still come out ahead after the teams appreciation over the past 10 years. Selling when he did was a shitty decision.
Short term decision and it was his to make. Not yours.
You've never wanted to move on from something in your life?
What's your point? No fuck it's his decision, I can still say I think he's a piece of shit.
Seattle fucked themselves with their love affair with the Seattle Center
And having a shitty owner who sold us out
Yep. Schultz is enemy #1 for selling the team. I bet he regrets that now. He could have taken some short term losses for bigger money later.
Anyone with any sense knew Bennett wanted to move the team.
The arena bullshit hasn’t been fixed since the Sonics left despite the “close calls.”
I got over the Sonics leaving a year or two after it happened. I don’t care one bit now that they are gone. I remember going to games their last few years and they did lack fan support. Everyone was suddenly a huge fan once they were gone.
I like to tell people to lose millions with their business. It's what I like to do.
He could have personally financed several arenas and still come out ahead after the teams appreciation over the past 10 years. Selling when he did was a shitty decision.
Short term decision and it was his to make. Not yours.
You've never wanted to move on from something in your life?
And that’s fine but we as fans have a right to hate his punk ass. I bet he regrets selling the team, too.
Seattle fucked themselves with their love affair with the Seattle Center
And having a shitty owner who sold us out
Yep. Schultz is enemy #1 for selling the team. I bet he regrets that now. He could have taken some short term losses for bigger money later.
Anyone with any sense knew Bennett wanted to move the team.
The arena bullshit hasn’t been fixed since the Sonics left despite the “close calls.”
I got over the Sonics leaving a year or two after it happened. I don’t care one bit now that they are gone. I remember going to games their last few years and they did lack fan support. Everyone was suddenly a huge fan once they were gone.
They lacked fan support when Clay gutted the team and basically admitted he was moving them. Before then they were always in the top 2/3 in attendance.
As someone that went to games, this is not true. The arena was never that full. This was even before Bennett bought the team.
In the early to mid 90’s the fan support was very good. The year we went to the 2nd round after beating the Kings, I went to two regular season games that were maybe 2/3rds full. We were 21st in attendance that year.
I also went to the clinching game against the Kings and it was packed, but to pretend like Seattle had amazing, die hard fans is false. A lot came out of the woodwork after the Supes left. You’re fooling yourself if you think there weren’t.
We were 14th in attendance the year we went to the Finals (95-96). I will admit I don’t know the capacity of Key Arena compared to other arenas at the time.
Edit: It was in the lower end, but every arena is basically 17-21 thousand.
We had bandwagon fans that came out more when we won, which is normal, but it wasn’t some basketball mecca, where the fan support was amazing, like the narrative pretends now.
Fuck David Stern, Fuck Aubrey McClendon and fuck Clay Bennett.
Two out of three ain't bad.
So far.
You're missing Schultz.
Howard Schultz is already dead to me.
Do you not drink Starbucks to stick it to him?
Forget the millions of dollars he generates for charity. Pissed off he sold HIS basketball team for the most money. How dare he!
It’s a bitch move for a guy that lives in Seattle and founded his main business there. It was also short sighted considering how much teams get sold for now. Fuck Schultz.
Seattle fucked themselves with their love affair with the Seattle Center
And having a shitty owner who sold us out
Yep. Schultz is enemy #1 for selling the team. I bet he regrets that now. He could have taken some short term losses for bigger money later.
Anyone with any sense knew Bennett wanted to move the team.
The arena bullshit hasn’t been fixed since the Sonics left despite the “close calls.”
I got over the Sonics leaving a year or two after it happened. I don’t care one bit now that they are gone. I remember going to games their last few years and they did lack fan support. Everyone was suddenly a huge fan once they were gone.
They lacked fan support when Clay gutted the team and basically admitted he was moving them. Before then they were always in the top 2/3 in attendance.
As someone that went to games, this is not true. The arena was never that full. This was even before Bennett bought the team.
In the early to mid 90’s the fan support was very good. The year we went to the 2nd round after beating the Kings, I went to two regular season games that were maybe 2/3rds full. We were 21st in attendance that year.
I also went to the clinching game against the Kings and it was packed, but to pretend like Seattle had amazing, die hard fans is false. A lot came out of the woodwork after the Supes left. You’re fooling yourself if you think there weren’t.
We were 14th in attendance the year we went to the Finals (95-96). I will admit I don’t know the capacity of Key Arena compared to other arenas at the time.
Edit: It was in the lower end, but every arena is basically 17-21 thousand.
We had bandwagon fans that came out more when we won, which is normal, but it wasn’t some basketball mecca, where the fan support was amazing, like the narrative pretends now.
Seattle fucked themselves with their love affair with the Seattle Center
And having a shitty owner who sold us out
Yep. Schultz is enemy #1 for selling the team. I bet he regrets that now. He could have taken some short term losses for bigger money later.
Anyone with any sense knew Bennett wanted to move the team.
The arena bullshit hasn’t been fixed since the Sonics left despite the “close calls.”
I got over the Sonics leaving a year or two after it happened. I don’t care one bit now that they are gone. I remember going to games their last few years and they did lack fan support. Everyone was suddenly a huge fan once they were gone.
They lacked fan support when Clay gutted the team and basically admitted he was moving them. Before then they were always in the top 2/3 in attendance.
As someone that went to games, this is not true. The arena was never that full. This was even before Bennett bought the team.
In the early to mid 90’s the fan support was very good. The year we went to the 2nd round after beating the Kings, I went to two regular season games that were maybe 2/3rds full. We were 21st in attendance that year.
I also went to the clinching game against the Kings and it was packed, but to pretend like Seattle had amazing, die hard fans is false. A lot came out of the woodwork after the Supes left. You’re fooling yourself if you think there weren’t.
We were 14th in attendance the year we went to the Finals (95-96). I will admit I don’t know the capacity of Key Arena compared to other arenas at the time.
Edit: It was in the lower end, but every arena is basically 17-21 thousand.
We had bandwagon fans that came out more when we won, which is normal, but it wasn’t some basketball mecca, where the fan support was amazing, like the narrative pretends now.
Go look at the attendence year after year. It was bottom half after the good years.
21st out of 30 is basically top 2/3.
Yes, I read it wrong. It’s still lower end.
That said, moving from a medium sized market to the smallest in the NBA is FS. A lot about what went down was wrong. People that say the fan support was lacking we’re still correct. Abundance in this case.
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Great benefactor, man.
I’m not a Sonics fan at all. Dude pulled a bitch move, therefore he is a bitch.
In the early to mid 90’s the fan support was very good. The year we went to the 2nd round after beating the Kings, I went to two regular season games that were maybe 2/3rds full. We were 21st in attendance that year.
I also went to the clinching game against the Kings and it was packed, but to pretend like Seattle had amazing, die hard fans is false. A lot came out of the woodwork after the Supes left. You’re fooling yourself if you think there weren’t.
We were 14th in attendance the year we went to the Finals (95-96). I will admit I don’t know the capacity of Key Arena compared to other arenas at the time.
Edit: It was in the lower end, but every arena is basically 17-21 thousand.
We had bandwagon fans that came out more when we won, which is normal, but it wasn’t some basketball mecca, where the fan support was amazing, like the narrative pretends now.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/SEA/1996.html
Go look at the attendence year after year. It was bottom half after the good years.
That said, moving from a medium sized market to the smallest in the NBA is FS. A lot about what went down was wrong. People that say the fan support was lacking we’re still correct. Abundance in this case.
They were actually on the way back under Clay because they hired the Spurs guy and got KD and Westbrook
They would have sold out if they weren't in OKC
The getting close and losing would suck, but you also never know how it would have played out. Free agents would have liked Seattle better than OKC.