Slog - Comments on Oklahoma City Sonics http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics Surprising absolutely no one, Sonics owner Clay Bennett has officially announced his intention to move the team to Oklahoma City. The press release: On behalf of the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics and Seattle Storm, I am disappointed that our efforts over the last fifteen months to foster the development of a new multi-purpose arena in the Greater Seattle area were not successful. From the beginning, it has been my absolute hope and expectation that we would be able to secure the necessary governmental commitments to build a successor venue to KeyArena. Even though our proposal for a new state-of-the-art... Copyright 2008 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:27:54 -0800 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:20:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by seattle98104 If they succeed in the pending litigation? LOL. good luck with that.

]]> seattle98104 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840613 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:33:24 -0800 Comment by Chris B Goodness.

I need to sit down, I'm so shocked by this turn of events.

Honest.

So, what's for lunch?

]]> Chris B http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840614 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:33:28 -0800 Comment by Clint Thank you Howard Schultz!!!!

Enjoy your Starbucks Sonics Fans.

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840618 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:34:20 -0800 Comment by max solomon dear okies,

i hope you choke on it.

dear howard schultz,

you fucking suck balls.

dear city of seattle,

make them $uffer, and keep the name like cleveland kept the browns.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840619 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:34:36 -0800 Comment by max solomon oh, and

dear david stern,

thanks for nothing.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840623 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:35:52 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle Disappointment is a two-way street.

Or at least a one-way street. (Not sure I buy this guy's "disappointment" claim.)

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840624 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840624 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:35:54 -0800 Comment by bma We are also completely committed to providing our fans a first class basketball, entertainment and social experience.

Really? That's a new one on me!

]]> bma http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840625 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840625 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:36:01 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave Good. Seattle doesnt need a basketball team like SF doesnt need a basketball team. I dont think anyone is crying that they have to support the Golden State Warriors or Sactown Kings.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840636 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:44:47 -0800 Comment by max solomon can someone persuade me that key arena is not adequate for NBA basketball?

what is lacking?

testicle washing stations for suite holders?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840641 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840641 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:46:38 -0800 Comment by Giffy The City should let the Sonics out of their lease if they agree to keep the Storm here for say 10 years. That way Key Arena has a tenant, basketball fans have something, and we save lawsuit money. Even if the City wins its still only another couple years before their gone.

]]> Giffy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840646 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840646 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:50:14 -0800 Comment by Matthew The utter transparency of this whole deal from day one has been so incredibly obvious to anyone with eyes, it's ridiculous. As big a douchebag as Bennett is--and make no mistake, the guy has perfumed more va-jay-jay than Summer's Eve--Schultz is really the jackass here. Bennett just wants a team in OKC, and is willing to spread the bullshit anytime, anywhere to make it happen. But his bullshit was obviously bullshit. Schultz actually made us think for half-a-second that when he bought the team and promised to restore it to greatness he was sincere, that he wasn't just a heartless, soulless leech interested in nothing but another few hundred million to toss on he pile.

That cocksucking piece of filth should be ashamed of himself, and his family, friends and associates should all shun him immediately and forever.

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840647 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:52:10 -0800 Comment by left coast Call me old-fashioned @ 9, but I still enjoy the old stations with people doing the 'washing'. More automation and technology isn't always a good thing.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840660 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:05:02 -0800 Comment by SeMe DONT GO TO ANY MORE GAMES. I love Durant's play and have supported the sonics since coming here from philly, but DONT GO TO ANY MORE GAMES. its over.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840662 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840662 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:07:50 -0800 Comment by smiles @10 Good idea.

]]> smiles http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840681 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:16:23 -0800 Comment by DaiBando Oklahoma City. World class, my ass.

]]> DaiBando http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840686 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:19:01 -0800 Comment by genevieve This is the first time there's been any indication that the Storm might get to stay here. I still think Bennett is a 100% asswipe, but this is progress. I still have hopes he'll allow someone else to come in and buy the Storm. There's no way he gives a rat's ass about women's basketball.

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840687 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840687 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:19:29 -0800 Comment by laterite Game over for this franchise. It will wheeze for a few years in OKC, maybe pull up stakes again and move to Charlotte. After that, pull the plug.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840695 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:22:42 -0800 Comment by N in Seattle Don't let the screendoor slam on your sorry ass when you leave, Clay.

Note to Tom Carr -- make the bastards pay through the nose for welshing on their contract with the city. Seek punitive damages as well.

]]> N in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840701 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:26:09 -0800 Comment by Gomez Didn't his cohort already admit this during an interview a few months ago?

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840707 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:28:59 -0800 Comment by Touring Key Arena was purposely built small so it could not hold a professional hockey team and compete with basketball. In other words they fucked themselves!

Fuck You Starbucks!
Fuck You Schultz!
Fuck You Oklahoma

]]> Touring http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840715 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840715 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:40:00 -0800 Comment by cw FU Schultz.

FU Bennett and your swiftboat friends.

FU David Stern for your ruining of a great game with your mismanagement. You better give Okie a new team make Bennett sell to local ownership.


]]> cw http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840716 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840716 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:40:19 -0800 Comment by okc is the minor leagues Can't Paul Allen just buy the Sonics?

There is nothing in Oklahoma City and no reason to ever go there, except to see the memorial to homegrown terrorism.

]]> okc is the minor leagues http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840731 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840731 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:48:10 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Paul Allen would buy the Sonics.

On the condition that we give him the vast bulk of the money to do so, and agree that he be allowed to keep any and all profits.

And he'd want exclusive rights to Seattle Center and exclusive marketing rights to anything featuring the name "Seattle".

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840749 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840749 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:01:12 -0800 Comment by John @22 and 23... Paul Allen already owns the Trailblazers and I'd be surprised if someone is allowed to own two NBA franchises. I've heard it rumored that Allen wants to bring them to Seattle if possible and this might be his chance.

@ Gomez in #19... yes, some minority owner admitted to this a few months ago in an interview. The front office denied that he had any right to speak for the team and both the team and the minority owner were fined by the NBA.

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840755 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:05:30 -0800 Comment by kk Touring @20: It's true Key Arena was purposely redeveloped too small for the NHL, but that was at the express request of previous owners. So, Fuck You, Too, Ackerleys.

OKC Minor @22: Since the Rose Garden went bust, Paul Allen should just move the Blazers here. That would lessen the carbon footprint of flying his 767 down to Portland for games. There was truly a chill in the air in Portland when the Okies announced they were buying the Sonics, cuz those clever folks in PDX can put 2 and 2 together.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840765 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840765 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:10:50 -0800 Comment by kk And "OK City Sonics." heh. Like that town moves at the speed of sound. Just like all Utah grooves to the Jazz.

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840774 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:13:00 -0800 Comment by DOUG. The Blazers should move to Centralia and become the Northwest TrailSonics.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840778 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:15:42 -0800 Comment by kk Doug @27: Sorry, Lewis County is saving itself for the new rodeo palace. And more casinos. And maybe NASCAR??

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840780 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840780 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:17:52 -0800 Comment by max solomon @27: or, realistically, 21 games at the Rose Garden & 20 at the Key. As long as they're all on the TV, who cares?

Northwest TrailSonics is brilliant.

SeaLand? Porttle?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840787 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:20:27 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Na Na Na Na
Na Na Na Na
Hey Hey Hey
Goodbye!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840831 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840831 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:35:32 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Clay, rest assured I'll be visiting the Quiznos and the Harley store at The Oklahoma City Sonics Towne Centre.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840928 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840928 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:32:11 -0800 Comment by Mike in Kirkland You know, Clay is making the right moves here. Key Arena really is a piece of crap. It's small, it's old, it has bad food, etc. If the team does stay, I don't want to have to go to Key Arena and watch them. Plus, from his side, even if they do sell out the arena, they could build a bigger, better one in OK and make more money. We need to give him a reason to stay and the only reason is a new arena.

Plus, Schultz needed to sell the team. The man was an idiot of an owner. He hired the wrong personnel to manage and coach and, in effect, took one of the best teams in the league and ran them straight into the ground. It's just sad that the team looks like it has potential again and they're being taken away from the fans that love them the most.

Oh, and I do really hate Clay Bennett. He is a homophobic idiot who is a cancer on this beautiful city.

]]> Mike in Kirkland http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c840958 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:52:40 -0800 Comment by Touring @32 You know Key Arena seems new to me. I remember they gutted the whole building years ago down to just four pillars. Bad food is something you can fix if you want to.

]]> Touring http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841016 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:39:22 -0800 Comment by DOUG. @32: Key Arena is the best arena in the NBA for the middle class fan. Apparently it sucks for the millionaires to whom a basketball game is merely backdrop for showing off trophy wives and devising ways to screw the proletariat.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841053 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:03:27 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Suggestion for team name: OK Go.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841119 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:37:28 -0800 Comment by not your cheese it has bad food
No, food quality is directly proportional to arena size. That's why a ballpark frank is world's better than anything your mom can cook.

]]> not your cheese http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841151 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841151 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:03:15 -0800 Comment by kk Lloyd @31: Hah!

]]> kk http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841155 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841155 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:05:32 -0800 Comment by Gitai Good riddance. The fewer professional sports teams in town, the better. Now we can refit Key Arena for concerts, which already make more money for the city than games.

Now to get rid of baseball, football, hockey, and soccer.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841180 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841180 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:33:22 -0800 Comment by Kevin Durant Fuck Clay Clay in the mouth with a hammer!
@13--you are wrong--the ONLY way to save the team is for the league to see how much SUPPORT we as fans give them. If no one shows up, then they think they were right.
And I sat in the very last row last night--the stadium is FINE, I had no complaints other than that shitty band that played.
Did anyone see the 4 yr old breakdancing phenom? Who the fuck was that???

]]> Kevin Durant http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841272 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841272 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:14:28 -0800 Comment by SeMe i know im wrong, but i hate being blackmailed. i had the 16 dollar seats too.

boston is looking scary and la pimped the suns.

and no i dont want the Storm, other than LJ they suck!

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841288 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c841288 Sports Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:11:06 -0800 Comment by Jason Clay Bennett can lick my left testicle and play with my right and I hope my pubes get stuck in his teeth and never come loose. I hope he takes it in the butt from Schulz. I'm not very knowledgeable on this law shit, but wouldn't a petition do fine? Of course after a bullet in Bennett's forehead and one in his heart.

]]> Jason http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c842457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c842457 Sports Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:35:11 -0800 Comment by Mike Savage Clay Bennett and David Stern are pathetic, lying, sacks of shit. Anybody that believes them, like dumbass "Mitch in the Morning" from KJR, also love deep fried Rocky Mountain Oysters just like Clay Clay.

]]> Mike Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845418 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845418 Sports Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:28:45 -0800 Comment by Mike Savage Clay Bennett and David Stern are pathetic, lying, sacks of shit. Anybody that believes them, like dumbass "Mitch in the Morning" from KJR, also love deep fried Rocky Mountain Oysters just like Clay Clay.

]]> Mike Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845419 Sports Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:29:07 -0800 Comment by The Man Posted by Gitai:

"Good riddance. The fewer professional sports teams in town, the better."

And fuck you, Gitai. Better yet, get the fuck out of town and move back to where ever you came from, you dumb-fuck outsider.

Yeah, we all know you're not originally from Seattle. Just another pseudo-intellectual, Marxist, sports-hating, dumb- fuck, outsider "hipster."

"I hate sports...I'm fuckin' cool..."

No. You're just another fucking outsider ruining what used to be a great city.

Fuck Starbucks, Schultz, Oklahoma City, Bennett, the NBA, Stern and fuck the Stranger, another entity full of outsiders, outsiders too cool for sports.

"Sports are not important."

You're probably right. But pro sports are more important than Gay Pride Week, commie-pinko bullshit, homeless bums and drug using hipster assholes on Capital Hill.

Again, fuck off Gitai, you fucking drug using asshole on Capital Hill.

]]> The Man http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845454 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845454 Sports Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:04:01 -0800 Comment by Jeff Possible Sonics Team Names If They Move to Oklahoma City

http://www.listbums.com/view_profile.php?uid=345&list_id=1184

This all starbucks fault.

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845697 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c845697 Sports Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:42:05 -0800 Comment by Greg Fuck Clay and his bullshit. KEY AREANA IS FINE! There is no need to build a new one! Do NBA games even sell out anymore? anywhere? I hear more about hockey in todays world anyway, Bring the NHL here.

I love the sonics, and would be very sad to see them leave but im not willing to sit back and let Seattle take it in the ass from the nba, and build a new areana. Eat shit and die Clay

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c849284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c849284 Sports Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:14:54 -0800 Comment by craig ehh fuck seattle..

]]> craig http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c851950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/oklahoma_city_sonics#c851950 Sports Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:20:12 -0800