"We made it," said the lying man as he flashed his sinister smile. "The NBA will be in Oklahoma City next season." These are first two public comments made by the man who purchased the Seattle Supersonics in 2006, Clay Bennett, after the judge ruled in his favor and allowed him to opt out of the remaining two years of the lease the team had with KeyArena. Good for you buddy. In about two years you succeeded in stealing the oldest professional sports franchise the city of Seattle has ever known from them. Being a Sonics fan, this makes me sick to stomach. Let's see if I can put together an accurate timeline of the series of events that led to this.
First; purchase the team from Howard Schultz for $350 million. Second; hire a bad coach (Bob Hill) that will surely lead the team to a losing season and begin to alienate the fans. Third; during the off-season, propose new and ridiculously expensive arena for team that will obviously be rejected. Before the upcoming season trade the team's best player for underachieving 'veterans', rookies, and draft picks. Also make no attempt to re-sign the second best player on the team and lose him to free agency. To make the off-season even worse, you fire the bad coach and replace him with a worse one (P.J. Carlesimo, whose attire sometimes makes me want to go Latrell Sprewell on him.) Then you're left with a team of young players with little experience who are poorly coached. The result? A 20-62 record (worst in franchise's 41-year history) and very poor attendance. From what I can see this was a perfectly executed plan to alienate the fans and purposely lose money in order to move the team to your hometown of buttf#ck nowhere.
What makes me want to boycott the league altogether is this was seemingly met with no resistance by the NBA commissioner, David Stern. He apparently couldn't care less about the history of the team and how important it is to members of the Seattle community. It appears that all he cares about is where he can get more money and that disgusts me that the greedy, scumbag, arrogant pigs of the world have won this battle. I can't talk about this anymore because I'm getting nauseous. I just hope whatever new colors/logo you choose that they look good with your overalls.
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