Seattle doesn’t want the Supersonics
Well, the Sonics played their last game in Seattle, and the residents of Washington State got what they wanted, the team will now be gone. Probably for the best, the NBA is not a popular league anymore, falling well behind Football , NASCAR and dare i say Baseball-which is is so boring SEE ARTICLE:
http://footballjesus.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/several-problems-with-basesaball/
The Sonics leave the same way the NFL’s Browns left Cleveland. In the 90’s the people of Cleveland built new facilities for the Indians and the Cavs. While the Browns got the shaft, and the owner said “fine” and took the team elsewhere. If they had just built the stadium that they eventually built anyway, -if they had built it early, the team would not have left.
Seattle gave the Seahawks and Mariners new facilities, even though the sonics were the first franchise there, and the first to win a title, But the people gave the Sonics the shaft. And over the last week lawmakers did the same, turning down another proposal that would have kept the team there. So the sonics will go. And it’s what the people want, they have had 2 years to save them , and they choose other things besides pro sports. I thought they would do what the San Francisco people did for the Giants , and come around at the last minute, and save the team. BUT NO- The residents of western Washington are now even more liberal then NoCal. I dont see how the funds will ever be raised publicly to get a new team there, when they couldn’t pay the money this time.
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