Seattle Gets The Shaft Once Again

[Bionicfanboy66]

Thanks, NBA. Maybe Chris Hanson should focus on Hockey. The Thunderbirds would make a decent addition to the NHL, IMO.

[Hector]

Sacramento only has the Kings.

Seattle has the Seahawks, Mariners, Sounders, Starbucks, and grunge, you guys will survive, lol.

[jwyblejr]

Don't forget you can't use the word "penmanship" either.

[Goblin19]

Seattle deserves a team, but not at the expense of Sacramento.

[Hector]

Agreed.

[jacsfc]

Why do the deserve a team exactly? They had a great team, treated the poorly and lost them to Oklahoma City.

[BlackKnight]

Why do the deserve a team exactly? They had a great team, treated the poorly and lost them to Oklahoma City.

Thats Gotta be the Greatest incorrect Written Sentence in Recent Times. ....

[megomania]

Why do the deserve a team exactly? They had a great team, treated the poorly and lost them to Oklahoma City.

Yeah, this is totally inaccurate and not even close to the truth. The fact is we were one of the top markets in the league for fan support. The reason we "lost" the team had absolutely nothing to do with lack of fan support.

It had to do with #1 Howard Schultz, #2 Our p*ssy mayor, and #3 David Stern having a stick up his a55 because he was told the state wasn't going to fund a new arena. So he helped sell us down the river to OKC. So no, we didn't lose the team. A stupid business man who bought the team for the glorification of his massive ego, then realized it's not like running a coffee company, sold us out to an owner who he knew would move the team.

David Stern keeps changing the relocation rules to benefit him. He held Sacramento's hand throughout this entire process and made sure they knew exactly what the NBA needed to hear in order to remain viable. The Chris Hansen/Steve Balmer offer + new arena deal blows the Sac groups offer out of the water. But now Stern doesn't care about the arena plan - the most important issue now is that Sac has supported the NBA for 30 years, so they should stay. Yet that wasn't a positive for Seattle which had a franchise for 41 years.

Chris Hansen should still buy the Kings - which is still in play - and let them rot in Sacramento for a few years while he insists the public pony up $500 mil for a new arena, then apply to move again. This isn't over though. All they did was vote on relocation...the NBA cannot tell the Maloof's who they can or cannot sell to.

[megomania]

Seattle deserves a team, but not at the expense of Sacramento.

Why not? OKC got a team at the expense of Seattle. Are we now saying the NBA should cease all relocation forever after the Sonics move? What if we wanted to relocate the Bobcats? Or the Bucks? When do we stop saying "Seattle deserves a team but not at the expense of XYZ"? The NBA isn't going to expand +1 because of an unbalanced schedule, and they aren't going to expand +2 because they're afraid of diluting the revenue sharing for the existing teams.

[megomania]

Thanks, NBA. Maybe Chris Hanson should focus on Hockey. The Thunderbirds would make a decent addition to the NHL, IMO.

Nope - he's a b-ball guy...arena doesn't get built without the NBA and he wouldn't even own the hockey team anyways. He'd share the arena with another owner.

-Chris

[jacsfc]

I never said the fans treated them poorly. They were in fact treated poorly by the decision makers so they left.

[toys2cool]

I'm torn here, cause I know it must suck to lose your team if you're a bball fan, I could'nt imagine losing the Heat...so I feel for Seattle fans...

[Hector]

The Warriors are moving across the bay from Oakland to San Francisco...I'm Ok with that...it's only 12 miles away...and they will still be called Golden State, lol.

[toys2cool]

The Warriors are moving across the bay from Oakland to San Francisco...I'm Ok with that...it's only 12 miles away...and they will still be called Golden State, lol.

ummm yea, that's the same