An odd one for Ray Allen (Surreal night for former Sonic)

CelticKing · Nov 6, 2008

An odd one for Ray Allen (Surreal night for former Sonic)

Ray Allen admitted that last night’s 96-83 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder - formerly known as the team he used to play for, the Seattle SuperSonics - was surreal.

“It is odd,” said the Celtics [team stats] guard before the game. “Someone just the other day was saying how unusual this was going to be, and I had to agree.”

Odd, because during his 4 seasons as a Sonic, Allen threw himself into the effort not only to keep the team in Seattle, but to advocate for the new arena that was going to be necessary to prevent a new owner from moving the team.

Guess what happened.

“Everything I’ve ever drawn from the Sonics franchise comes down to the same question - where does it stand?” he said. “The feeling I get now from the new ownership is that now they just want a clean slate.

“It’s strange, because some of the guys I played with are still there,” said Allen. “I know it’s commonplace for guys to get traded, but in this case the whole team got traded, and that’s something you obviously never see.

“Most of the players liked Seattle,” he continued. “I’m sure that having to relocate to Oklahoma City is going to require quite a readjustment.”

Not surprisingly, Allen can feel their disappointment.

“Oh yeah, definitely disappointment, because the people in government in Seattle didn’t fight enough for what they wanted,” he said. “There was a lot of greed in the old ownership in wanting to unload the team so quickly, and they didn’t think about what was going to happen.”

Thunder owner Clay Bennett’s name may now be mud in Seattle, but you won’t hear any of that criticism from Allen.

“I thought he was a straight shooter,” said Allen. “He let me know what his intentions were immediately. He wanted to make a go of it in Seattle, but if things didn’t work out, then he had another plan. He was on the up and up.

“He owns properties all over America,” he said. “He didn’t need a team in Oklahoma City.”
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DLee7283 · Nov 9, 2008

its even more confusing because OKC hosted the Hornets for a while and its hard to see the difference at first just like when the Bobcats came in the league, this is more confusing then even that for some reason

Jontro · Nov 17, 2008

sucky team and a sucky city... they're made for eachother

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