NBA coming back to Seattle?!?

[Lew Zealand]

Racer X wrote:
Great, just effing great. We do NOT need 5 stadiums. Well, right now we have 3, and a 4th being built. UofW stadium not included.

What a bunch of whiney babies. :cursin::cursin::cursin:

Sounds like you don't want to bring (construction) jobs to Seattle. Jobs, dammit, JOBS!


JOBS!!!!!


You'd make a crappy politician.

[Racer X]

GF's brother does demolition. I'm not against jobs, but I AM against us being forced into stuff the voters repeatedly turn down. Mariner Stadium was vetoed 4 times by the Seattle voters. The COUNTY over-ruled us.

[Lemon Drop]

Racer X wrote:
Great, just effing great. We do NOT need 5 stadiums. Well, right now we have 3, and a 4th being built. UofW stadium not included.

What a bunch of whiney babies. :cursin::cursin::cursin:

Didn't the Sonics leave in part because they hated Key Arena, and Seattle wouldn't build them a new sandbox?

I'd also prefer that private concerns build these sports stadiums, since they reap most of the benefits. It's not at all a done deal that we'll get a new arena for basketball and hockey.

[pRICE cUBE]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Racer X]
Great, just effing great. We do NOT need 5 stadiums. Well, right now we have 3, and a 4th being built. UofW stadium not included.

What a bunch of whiney babies. :cursin::cursin::cursin:

Didn't the Sonics leave in part because they hated Key Arena, and Seattle wouldn't build them a new sandbox?

I'd also prefer that private concerns build these sports stadiums, since they reap most of the benefits. It's not at all a done deal that we'll get a new arena for basketball and hockey.
They asked for an arena right after the football and baseball field were built. No one had the stomach for funding a basketball arena. The the owner sold the team to Okc businessman with personal assurances the team would stay in Seattle. That is what he old the media anyway, the he tried to sell condos on the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Beam Me Up Scotty]

"Didn't the Sonics leave in part because they hated Key Arena, and Seattle wouldn't build them a new sandbox?"

Oh boy, don't ask a Seattleite about the Sonics departure, that's quite a story (I grew up watching them). A lot of NW residents still refuse to go to Starbucks as they are still angry and bitter with Charles Schultz (no, not the Peanuts cartoonist). I think CNBC did a 30 minute story on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonicsgate

The whole story has enough drama for a book and movie deal...

D & C

[Lemon Drop]

Dazed & Confused wrote:
"Didn't the Sonics leave in part because they hated Key Arena, and Seattle wouldn't build them a new sandbox?"

Oh boy, don't ask a Seattleite about the Sonics departure, that's quite a story (I grew up watching them). A lot of NW residents still refuse to go to Starbucks as they are still angry and bitter with Charles Schultz (no, not the Peanuts cartoonist). I think CNBC did a 30 minute story on that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonicsgate

The whole story has enough drama for a book and movie deal...

D & C

I live here too - there's all kinds of stories out there, and a little truth too.

Here's the shorthand version of that fiasco:

The SuperSonics won the NBA Championship in 1979, and are one of three teams out of the six major-league men's professional sports franchises that have existed in Seattle (the Sonics, Mariners, Pilots, Seahawks, Sounders, and Metropolitans, winners of the 1917 Stanley Cup) to have won a championship.

Sam Schulman owned the team from its 1967 inception until 1983. It was also owned by Barry Ackerley (1983–2001), and the Basketball Club of Seattle, headed by Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz (2001–2006). On October 31, 2006, the SuperSonics' purchase by Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett was finalized and the new ownership group took control. After failing to find public funding to construct a new arena in the Seattle area, the SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City before the 2008–09 season, following a $45 million settlement with the city of Seattle to pay off the team's existing lease at KeyArena in advance of its 2010 expiration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics

[hal]

That's a wacky wiki entry...

"Metropolitans, winners of the 1917 Stanley Cup"

were NOT from a 'major league' - they were from the Pacific Coast Hockey League...

GOOD RIDDENS!! The sacramento owners were trying to extort a new area out of the city. I can't believe we didn't fall for it - YAY!!!!

[cbelt3]

Heh.. let's not talk about "Build a new Stadium or the team will leave".
Cleveland voters approved building a new football stadium. Almost the SAME day the late Art Modell announced that he was moving the team to Baltimore.

We had to build the damn stadium without a team to put in it, with the 'agreement' from the NFL that they would 'allow' us to recreate the Browns once the stadium was done.

[pRICE cUBE]

cbelt3 wrote:
Heh.. let's not talk about "Build a new Stadium or the team will leave".
Cleveland voters approved building a new football stadium. Almost the SAME day the late Art Modell announced that he was moving the team to Baltimore.

We had to build the damn stadium without a team to put in it, with the 'agreement' from the NFL that they would 'allow' us to recreate the Browns once the stadium was done.

Who is disliked more in Cleveland, Modell or LeBron?

[the_poochies]

I didn't even know that the Sonics left Seattle.

And how did an NBA team end up in OKC?