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posted by on December 6 at 11:11 AM
I was sure that last Sunday’s Sonics-Warriors game at KeyArena was going to be a great one. Golden State is never not fun to watch, plus they were on a five-game winning streak, AND all three captains got T’d up in a recent game. Exciting! Combined with the fact that Kevin Durant had dropped 35 points on the Pacers at the Key two nights before, it was easy to convince some friends to spend money for tickets. Little did we know that the Sonics would turn in what was quite possibly their worst performance of the season, playing as if they had no hands, and that Durant would be good for only 6 points before Carlesimo benched him for most of the second half. Totally disappointing.
The most exciting part of the game? When the Jumbotron caught on fire during the first quarter and sparks started falling onto the court. I snapped a photo of the massive smoking scoreboard as they lowered it onto a seemingly flammable plastic tarp. The whole scene was ridiculous and somehow so fitting:
Things are looking up at the Key, though: The Sonics grabbed their second home win against the Clippers last night, improving to 4-15.
In other basketball news, Allen Iverson dropped 51 points on the Lakers last night. It was a sick performance—49 points in just three quarters. Unfortunately, he cooled way down in the fourth and the Lakers won, but it was awesome to see The Answer in classic form.
I made some bumper stickers and some other things on Cafe Press as a protest against the Sonics possibly moving to Oklahoma. I'm sure I'm not the only one trying to cash in on this stupidity. I was just curious to see if I could make some extra spending money for the holidays using this new "internet entrepreneur" economy. And I'm too cheap and broke to be able to advertise for this social experiment so... justoksonics.com
if you expect anything besides a loss from this team you're delusional.
there's a reason wilkins wasn't drafted, that other teams were willing to trade watson & wilcox, and that carlissimo was available.
THEY SUCK.
I thought the team was renamed OK! Go! or something ... why no soccer coverage with news that a certain soccer star and his pushy wife sleep starkers?
all this to try to prove to us that the arena isn't up to snuff?
i said it once, and i'll say it again, the stranger should have a sports section. garbes, S-Lee, Chicago fan and even Feit, despite his love of the Wizards can pen decent sports pieces for the paper. there is clearly readers out there willing to read a different take on sports other than the one offered by lame ass Thiel and Kelly-Interesting sports writing is mos def a possibility- an alt weekly without sports is dead, dead I tell you.
AG thx for giving the Answer his due props. What a game! He is just amazing to watch, too bad it was a wasted effort.
but that tarp is so small...girl, you gotta call me.
I saw that clip on the news here in SF, but what struck me as weird is when the sports guy mentioned the Sonics are moving to Oklahoma City next year. Not maybe, not "rumour has it", but ARE MOVING, NEXT YEAR, LAST SEASON THERE. It's not the first time I've heard that mentioned casually, as a FACT, by media outside Seattle.
Are media outside Seattle just sloppy with the details since they're not "our team"? Or are the Sonics running a hometown PR campaign to gray the issue, spreading some uncertainty to try and get the city for what it's worth while they're still around?
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