This thread is being made to welcome all ideas, articles and posts. We want all posters, to come and give their opinions and good ideas to what they think Seattle should do. Also, this is a thread for what will happen, which in turn means, articles, news reports, radio ideas, etc..So basically factual evidence on stuff that will happen. Please, NO personal attacks. I know this will get heated, and we love that, but do not attack another poster because of their view. We want to keep the discussion smart, and have a good debate going. So, lets get this going! I think we all want basketball back in Seattle. There is amazing history there and a great fan base. But Clay "boo-hoo" Bennett is thought otherwise. I mean, if a franchise can survive in Charlotte, why not Seattle? I think Stern needs to make a very strong push to bring an expansion team to Seattle.
I'm just interested to see how Seattle residents/Sonics fans would feel about any compensation team that awarded down the road. They could the history and whatnot, but as a longtime fan myself, I'd think it must be hard to just turn loyalty on and off like that. My feeling is that the Blazers have themselves an opportunity to really expand their fanbase.
Clay Bennett should get tortured and shot, and the Seattle Supersonics should return to their rightful place.
The NBA has too many teams as it is, and after this whole ordeal I don't like the idea of doing to some other town what Clay Bennett did to Seattle. If David Stern leaves and a new commissioner puts a new team in Seattle, I'll root for them. But the only thing that could make me forget this is a time machine.
As much as I feel for the Sonic fans I have been disappointed by what I have been reading by some of the fans. It is one thing to hate Clay Bennet (I personally hate him for his actions and I am not a Sonics fans) but I hope that most Sonic fans will still cheer for the players in OKC as it was not there choice to move away. Poor ownership led to this and it is truly a shame that an NBA team leaves devoted fans over an arena. Good luck to all Sonic fans.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Lavalamp @ Jul 3 2008, 03:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why would this thread get heated? Sidenote: Where you at Dawg?</div> Cause, I said so. And right here dawg! You can call people and text people!
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bangofan13 @ Jul 4 2008, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>As much as I feel for the Sonic fans I have been disappointed by what I have been reading by some of the fans. It is one thing to hate Clay Bennet (I personally hate him for his actions and I am not a Sonics fans) but I hope that most Sonic fans will still cheer for the players in OKC as it was not there choice to move away. Poor ownership led to this and it is truly a shame that an NBA team leaves devoted fans over an arena. Good luck to all Sonic fans.</div> I think you're misunderstanding. I can't speak for everyone, but it's not that we don't want to root for the players on the team but the team in general. I hope Kevin Durant and Jeff Green and co. have great careers and win games. But I won't be on the sideline cheering for the Oklahoma City Bennetts at any point in time. When KD becomes the superstar we all know he'll be though, I'll be very happy.
I can't see Seattle getting an expansion team and I have no desire to support stealing another city's franchise even if it is struggling. I'm no Clay Bennett.
