OT: Chris Paul and the Seattle Supersonics?

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  1. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    I don't remember you posting polls, but I damned sure never got a chance to vote for any stadium. Those "darned politicians", though, did sell out the team to Bennett in the middle of a trial. BTW, did they ever reach the threshold to get that extra 25M they were trumpeting about? I don't think so.

    And I go back to the point. "Washingtonians" haven't paid a dime for the stadia. We've paid for the light rail, for art museums, for upgrades to Husky Stadium...but it's users and tourists who pay for Qwest and Safeco. And I'm relatively certain that Sonics fans would be ok with the maximum-by-law of 2% to be added to their parking and ticket prices to have an NBA team in the city.
     
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    Nickels never intended to, and I don't know why he even took it to trial, with the clown witnesses he put up.

    I posted that insider stock sales link on this board, not the famous poll of a few years ago. As for the proposed funding being harmless, that's irrelevant. Washingtonians overwhelmingly opposed it, no matter how it was to be done.

    The only viable location for an NBA arena is right where Key is now. The downtown movers and shakers aren't going to drive out to Bellevue after work. Even the ones who live there couldn't entertain business guests in the boxes and integrate it into their work day. The guests would get lost driving back in the rain.

    They're not going to tear down Key at age 15, so for the NBA, it's Key or nothing. As I've predicted for years, when the evil Stern meets his death in a painful fire, Seattle may get a team. Not until.
     
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    Both of them?

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    nah, there's like a cool 2,000 or so. :)
     
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