Seattle Sonic Fans..

[dwele farooq al suleed afzul]

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

 

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[parasight21]

It's tough especially if the team has embedded your childhood. Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp were two of my favorite players growing up. I wasn't no season ticket holder but every winter I made sure that I go to at least couple Sonics game and every time I went there I had great time. I saw GP dropping 49 (I think) against Clippers which happens to be his season high that year and saw Ray Allen breaking single season 3-point record (along with that mustard AJs 

). 
I have hard time agreeing with people saying 'you guys didn't want the team when they were there so why are you complaining now?'. Seattle fans are lot more sophisticated than that, IMO. The team has been in the city for 40 years and we are not like Boston or LA where you have few bad years and really good years almost every decade, we understand we'll have good years and then some down years but we have been literally dominating our division for a long time but to go through that downturn after Howard Shultz took over, it was tough. We just wanted a better team but instead, we got our team robbed. 

Arena deal will be tough to get, the city already built two new stadiums in last decades with taxpayers money. Ain't no way we are building third one with our money. Clay Bennett and Howard Shultz never wanted to open their damn wallets for a new stadium, they wanted us, the taxpayers, to pay the amount. Steve Balmer is supposedly trying to get the thing done so we'll see but once you lose your team, you may never get it again.  

 

[parasight21]

It's tough especially if the team has embedded your childhood. Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp were two of my favorite players growing up. I wasn't no season ticket holder but every winter I made sure that I go to at least couple Sonics game and every time I went there I had great time. I saw GP dropping 49 (I think) against Clippers which happens to be his season high that year and saw Ray Allen breaking single season 3-point record (along with that mustard AJs 

). 
I have hard time agreeing with people saying 'you guys didn't want the team when they were there so why are you complaining now?'. Seattle fans are lot more sophisticated than that, IMO. The team has been in the city for 40 years and we are not like Boston or LA where you have few bad years and really good years almost every decade, we understand we'll have good years and then some down years but we have been literally dominating our division for a long time but to go through that downturn after Howard Shultz took over, it was tough. We just wanted a better team but instead, we got our team robbed. 

Arena deal will be tough to get, the city already built two new stadiums in last decades with taxpayers money. Ain't no way we are building third one with our money. Clay Bennett and Howard Shultz never wanted to open their damn wallets for a new stadium, they wanted us, the taxpayers, to pay the amount. Steve Balmer is supposedly trying to get the thing done so we'll see but once you lose your team, you may never get it again.  

 

[engoi]

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/02/nba_official_says_new_player_c_1.html

Silver visits Portland at least once a year, as he does with all of the league 30 franchises.

"There is no other market I travel to where the support is as wide and deep for a team as it is in Portland," Silver said.

He said it was "unimaginable" that the Blazers would ever move from Portland, adding that he'd never heard that the idea has been considered.

"It's just unimaginable," he said. "The only reason I'm not saying impossible is because crazy things happen in business."

He said the league remains interested in relocating a franchise to Seattle, which is "a great NBA market. It's probably the best market without an NBA team. And it's still our hope that an NBA team returns to Seattle."


"He" is NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver

 

[engoi]

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/02/nba_official_says_new_player_c_1.html

Silver visits Portland at least once a year, as he does with all of the league 30 franchises.

"There is no other market I travel to where the support is as wide and deep for a team as it is in Portland," Silver said.

He said it was "unimaginable" that the Blazers would ever move from Portland, adding that he'd never heard that the idea has been considered.

"It's just unimaginable," he said. "The only reason I'm not saying impossible is because crazy things happen in business."

He said the league remains interested in relocating a franchise to Seattle, which is "a great NBA market. It's probably the best market without an NBA team. And it's still our hope that an NBA team returns to Seattle."


"He" is NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver

 

[dmbrhs]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

 

[dmbrhs]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

 

[dwele farooq al suleed afzul]

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

And yes, I agree a lot of cities who have teams now shouldn't, New Orleans being one of them. How do you have a top 5 pg in the league, fighting for homecourt in the West and can't get 13k fans?  The Hawks arena is also always embarassingly empty for being a playoff team.

I don't care really. I'd like to see Seattle get a team but when it came down to it they voted no on a new arena. And again, I also agree it's not fair to put that financial burden on the tax payers.

And FWIW, no Thunder fan I know is claiming any history of the Sonics. Ask any of us the best anything in franchise history and the answer will be a player who donned a Thunder jersey, like nobody is going to call Gary Payton the best pg in our franchise history. Even when they show something on a telecast after a significant statistical milestone, it'll have an asterisk or footnote citing that the feat was done by a member of the Seattle SuperSonics and not an Oklahoma City Thunder like whenever a player has, "the most ____ since Gary Payton."

 

[dwele farooq al suleed afzul]

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

And yes, I agree a lot of cities who have teams now shouldn't, New Orleans being one of them. How do you have a top 5 pg in the league, fighting for homecourt in the West and can't get 13k fans?  The Hawks arena is also always embarassingly empty for being a playoff team.

I don't care really. I'd like to see Seattle get a team but when it came down to it they voted no on a new arena. And again, I also agree it's not fair to put that financial burden on the tax payers.

And FWIW, no Thunder fan I know is claiming any history of the Sonics. Ask any of us the best anything in franchise history and the answer will be a player who donned a Thunder jersey, like nobody is going to call Gary Payton the best pg in our franchise history. Even when they show something on a telecast after a significant statistical milestone, it'll have an asterisk or footnote citing that the feat was done by a member of the Seattle SuperSonics and not an Oklahoma City Thunder like whenever a player has, "the most ____ since Gary Payton."

 

[o fenomeno]

You're basing Seattle's reaction to losing their team to fans on message boards and documentaries? You don't know !#@$ so stop acting like you do. For the record, we've been talking about how terrible of a place Oklahoma is for a while now. Didn't just start last year.

 

[o fenomeno]

You're basing Seattle's reaction to losing their team to fans on message boards and documentaries? You don't know !#@$ so stop acting like you do. For the record, we've been talking about how terrible of a place Oklahoma is for a while now. Didn't just start last year.

 

[dwele farooq al suleed afzul]

Well prior to Oklahoma "stealing" your team or whatever you think happened, what relevance did Oklahoma ever have to even be in the consciousness of Seattle citizens? Yall jusst drink a Starbuck's and sit around talking about Oklahoma City?

 

[dwele farooq al suleed afzul]

Well prior to Oklahoma "stealing" your team or whatever you think happened, what relevance did Oklahoma ever have to even be in the consciousness of Seattle citizens? Yall jusst drink a Starbuck's and sit around talking about Oklahoma City?

 

[651akathepaul]

Actually, Sonics fans don't want to support Howard Shultz so they can be found at a Tully's or Seattles Best, talking about OKC.

 

[651akathepaul]

Actually, Sonics fans don't want to support Howard Shultz so they can be found at a Tully's or Seattles Best, talking about OKC.

 

[o fenomeno]

Nope. Started in 06 when Bennett bought the team.

 

[o fenomeno]

Nope. Started in 06 when Bennett bought the team.

 

[certifiedsw]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

Man shut your stupid @#$ up. You're acting like the only time we missed the Sonics was when OKC was doing good??? I was gonna ignore your comment, but seeing something as dumb as this being said I couldn't. Who the @#$# are you to say Seattle fans only missed the Sonics when the Thunder started doing good? @#$# no. I think I can speak for nearly every Sonics fan on here when I say that I loved this team through the thick and thin and have missed them since they first became the Thunder. 

 

[certifiedsw]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

Man shut your stupid @#$ up. You're acting like the only time we missed the Sonics was when OKC was doing good??? I was gonna ignore your comment, but seeing something as dumb as this being said I couldn't. Who the @#$# are you to say Seattle fans only missed the Sonics when the Thunder started doing good? @#$# no. I think I can speak for nearly every Sonics fan on here when I say that I loved this team through the thick and thin and have missed them since they first became the Thunder. 

 

[dmbrhs]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

You really don't know what you're talking about.

 

[dmbrhs]

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Originally Posted by dmbrhs

Originally Posted by Dwele Farooq Al Suleed Afzul

Fans always over aggrandizing themselves

Get over it. Yall built all your other teams new arenas but wouldn't for the Sonics when it was too skinny KD shooting 38%, Jeff Green looking like a bust being taken over Noah, and then other filler like Chris Wilcox, Luke Ridnour, Desmond Mason, and Johan Petro. Now that the team has improved, kats want to be emotional.

You're an idiot. Even with that garbage team in the last year, 80% of the arena was filled. Most teams have a hard time doing that right now. The great myth of the situation is that the Sonics didn't have support. They did. KeyArena was the smallest arena in the league for years, so their attendance figures always looked bad (even when they had good teams and were selling out every game).

You're an idiot. I never said anything to the contrary. The first yr we had the Thunder and they sucked, there was not nearly as many documentaries and butthurt fans spamming message boards and making films and %@$+. When the Thunder sucked, much of Sonics nation didn't give a %@$+. Then all of a sudden, 50 win season, KD is looking like an MVP candidate and Scott Brooks get C.O.Y and now all these dudes are all over the internet with their exposés like SonicGate and trolling Thunder related threads and message boards with corny, overdone, Oklahoma jokes.

You really don't know what you're talking about.

 

[fatherless child]

This dude Dwele is a herb

you really think Seattle is angry because Durant became a superstar when the team left? Seattle would've gave up every man on that roster to keep the team on that city; and rightfully so - Oklahoma city does NOT deserve that team. They basically hit the lottery.

 

[fatherless child]

This dude Dwele is a herb

you really think Seattle is angry because Durant became a superstar when the team left? Seattle would've gave up every man on that roster to keep the team on that city; and rightfully so - Oklahoma city does NOT deserve that team. They basically hit the lottery.