<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Allen Iverson is coming to town Tuesday night and the Denver Nuggets' great experiment will continue. Is the basketball floor big enough for Iverson and his new teammate, Carmelo Anthony, who has finished his 15-game suspension and plays his first game alongside new teammate Iverson tonight in Denver? Can they share the ball? Share the stat sheets? Share their dream of winning big, maybe even winning an NBA championship? Seattle-area basketball fans are fortunate to be witnesses to the beginning of this experiment. KeyArena is the first road stop on Denver's basketball barnstorm. It is this city's good fortune to watch Iverson tirelessly slalom through screens, rubbing his defenders off the hips and elbows and shoulders of his Denver teammates and to watch Anthony attempt to play off Iverson's energy. We get to see how the Nuggets' George Karl, in his first road game as their coach, integrates his two extraordinary talents. And we get to see how Sonics coach Bob Hill chooses to defend them. We're fortunate in this area to have an NBA game to watch and even when the home team is nine games under .500, as the Sonics are, there are nights like Tuesday that should make us all glad the league is here. But we all know how close we are to losing the Sonics. We know how close to losing 40 years of memories we are. Forty years of families going to games, 40 years of Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Havlicek and Walt Frazier, Julius Erving and Bill Walton coming to town. Forty years of watching Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone, John Stockton and Isiah Thomas. We are this close to losing that. Unless the state legislature agrees to contribute $300 million to help fund a new multi-purpose arena, the NBA will be gone. It's that simple. And it's that sad.</div> Source
Both sides say they want an arena but nobody's willing to pay for it. And neither side is likely to budge. I'm not too optimistic, here.
I was at the game last night and we were soo close. I just don't wanna lose the Sonics [well none of us do.] And some annoying Nuggets fans were right behind me. Oh well, hopefully the rest of the season will be nothing but good news cuz I can't take anymore of this up and down and up and down or down at all.
I tried to get into the game last night. I was stuck in that long line to buy tickets. After I got halfway through the line, the game was sold out. I guess the Iverson and Melo show was a hot ticket last night.
