Durant on OKC

i must have struck a nerve. free tickets or not, we go to the games. (no one gave me any free tickets, but anyway...) you sonics fans are cute. full of directionless anger, but cute. i agree with philip that seattle is "just another place that WE rarely hear or care about." maybe you think it's cool, and i hope so, but i care as little for seattle as you do for okc. so please, talk as much crap on okc as you can, maybe someone else in seattle will see how witty you are. i hope you enjoy your team while they last. your principles and opinion for clay bennet (who does suck) have lost you your team. newsflash- a lot of pro sports owners are shady. you had to ask yourselves what meant more to you. keeping the supersonics in seattle by building a new arena, or proving a point to bennet and saying no. you have spoken.

Hey Mike, Did your parents have any children born without brain damage? From your comments, it's obvious you're from the cesspool known as the big sleazy.....So why would we see you in June? Are you coming for a visit? Better enjoy the Hornets while you can, rumor has it they're the team moving to Seattle, once this is all worked out.

do you call "supporting your team", recieving close to 5,000 free tickets a game. the attendance numbers were bloated in the first place. if your so supportive, how come most big business has left okc. why did you not support GM?? besides the ranchers, and, the mayor, who will be able to afford tickets after the first 2 years. chris paul told a reporter here that he would have raised a stink, if he had to play in okc, so, keep bringing up how all those hornets liked the ford center. we have actually talked to a few of them. your town supported a team on charity. now, when its time to actually spend some of that paycheck on a game, we will see the true story. SEE YA IN JUNE!!! MIKE U.

i got ahead of myself and missed that second 'p', but good call though. it seems like the people in seattle have a great EXCUSE as to why they won't support their team. myself, i wouldn't mind giving money to that sleazeball, if he kept my team at home. is it the coolest way to do business? no. are the people in seattle doing everything they can? no. i would think that selling out every game would send a bigger message than being clever on an oklahoma website. whatever, next year you won't have a team to NOT support, for whatever reason you give yourself. we in OKC knew the hornets were leaving, and still supported them, just like we'll support the team that you're losing. i hope you don't have a sorry, cry-baby excuse to not go to mariners and seahawks games, or you'll lose them too.

donuteyes, please don't type before thinking. A big reason fans aren't attending as much is because they know the ownership is gung-ho about moving the franchise and that there's good reason to be skeptical about them gutting the team of veteran talent now in order to stock up for the future. How can you trust them that they're committed to bringing a competitive team to the fans here when they're clearly maneuvering to move out? It makes sense to give the fans little to root for, for their purposes, and thus even solid Sonics fans have trouble justifying paying money to see a team that's been built to fail. No one around here wants to give money to that sleazeball. OKC averaged under 18,000 fans per Hornets home game in the second year there. That would place them around middle of the pack nationwide. They only played two years there so who knows what the attendance trend might've been. Expand KeyArena like the city of Seattle is looking to do (yeah, we got no state support, but there are still some stones being unturned), and with a population base of 3.2 million it wouldn't be hard to turn out that many regularly.

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