Sonics, Seattle negotiating a settlement

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true supe fans, keep your heads up high! we did nothing wrong. we paid 2000 a year for season tickets,8 american dollars for a beer, 6 american dollars for popcorn. we did it for forty plus years! ignore this forum and okc. i can assure you, they wont be around long. we will have a club soon! okc wont!

I posted them because I knew that you would enjoy them, Stalker. Here's another........... "I just feel for the (Seattle) fans,” Durant said. "But I'm still excited to play for Oklahoma City and I can't wait to get there.”

Sorry you don't read anything outside of Berry Tramel and Darnell Mayberry. At least you can stay current on how much everyone around the league just totally loves the OKC move. Hey I heard Jenni Carlson has a great video up about hotdogs, you should check that out. So if it "doesn’t matter what they or anyone else favors" why are you posting their comments?

The quotes are what they are, Stalker. Need I remind you that it doesn't matter what they or anyone else favors, the team IS moving to OKC. Oh and Chopp will block funding for an arena, letting Bennett off the hook for the other 30 million and it will be decades before Seattle sees the NBA again.

BOO-HOO Seattle. You were wrong before you are wrong now. Put your pathetic efforts into Future NBA team!!!!

Phillip, did you just cut and paste that from the Oklahoman? Wow. Need I remind you NONE of those people are in favor of the move?

i mean really, what would the banner say? would it say Seattle Supersonics 1979 Champs? in okc? ridiculous. how 'bout Oklahoma City 1979 Champs? no, even more ridiculous. hanging a championship banner in the ford center would be an insult to the '79 sonics team, and an invitation for (even more) mockery from the rest of the league. hang the banner in seattle's city hall.

knights is a terrible name, stop it with that. what is this, northwest classen? the banners, trophy, and history should remain in seattle. brent is dead-on. the sonics won the '79 title, not the okc whatevers. if bennett tries to pull that, i will never attend a game. i probably won't anyway for a while.

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"Sonics fans, meanwhile, shouldn't cling to hope of ex-owner Howard Schultz steering the team back to Seattle with his lawsuit. He's the guy who created the mess by failing to invest enough in the franchise before selling it to Bennett. Lately, he's struggled to run his own coffee shop. Does anyone truly think he'll do any better in a courtroom?” — Yahoo Sports NBA editor Johnny Ludden "It's not like Boston. A few people are upset. There are just a few people talking about it. More people are talking about us winning a championship. Winning it all is big. It's a business move for them. It makes financial sense. It didn't work here (in Seattle), but it will work for them there (in Oklahoma City).” — Boston Celtics forward and Washington native Brian Scalabrine "If half the people who supposedly were so linked to the team actually had shown up at games, this might never have happened...If the Sonics were such a beloved part of the community, consistently finishing near the bottom of the league in attendance was a strange way of proving it.” — Sacramento Bee columnists Scott Howard-Cooper "Seattle has no idea what they have lost. It's something that $75 million will never be able to buy.” — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban

Dai, you answered your own question - the Lakers retained their name in the move, while the Sonics did not, and "Sonics" are only a Seattle team, ergo, OKC does not deserve the history... OKC got what they want, they deserve no part of Sonics history that is good since Clay and company did everything to make the Sonics look bad to more easily seperate the team from its city... mission accomplished - Clay achieved the worst season in Supersonics history, and that even included an expansion season - Clay as the owner of the Sonics was a disgrace to the good name of Seattle sports. Thankfully, he must soon enough defend his actions in a court of law over a sales contract and agreement that he signed... baseless as he may consider it to be.

Duplicate banners being disgraceful? Tell that to the Lakers who are hanging banners from their MPLS days. I think we should hang banners and keep the trophy. There is a rich history associated with this team, and it shouldn't be forgotten simple because it is in a new locale. I would hate for these banners never to hang again at a professional games. You can even argue that those are the memories of another city, but I can tell you that I'm remember watching Payton and Kemp in the 90's. Sure, I wasn't there, but I share those memories with your fellow citizens. Even the colors and name should be in OKC, at least until Seattle can revive the green and gold. We are essentially treating out team like an expansion team for the fans of Seattle, but they don't seem to realize that.

alright, so if one third of seattle's population is more than all of okc's, then there are twice as many people who don't care about the sonics than there are in okc altogether. hmm. why does it seem like seattle residents were either passionate sonics fans, or they couldn't give a crap? i guess we know which side is larger.

As a Sonics fan, I hold no animosity towards OKC residents. I do, however, hold much animosity against Bennett and Stern. I would expect any rationale person or fan to be able to cut through all the emotion of this situation and boil it down to the following. Bennett and Stern are best buds, note Bennett's email saying Stern was one of his favorite people in the girl. Perhaps he should just ASK HIM TO PROM. Stern lied repeatedly about Key Arena. Now, it's fine renovated for a future NBA team (possibly). Anything to back Bennett and his pursuit of a team. Seriously, any OKC fan dispute that's bunk? Bennett repeatedly lied. Oh yes, he's a man possessed. Even when caught in the cookie jar with his associates, let's fool EVERYONE and tell them we really were to stay in Seattle. Let's say no to the tribe, let's say only if $500 Million were built in a new stadium. Yes, Bennett spent a few million, but what's that prove? He threw out 45M to get the team, what's a few spare millions to him? The team, 99.9% is gone ( I suspect Shultz will withdraw his suit), I can 100% say Bennett is a lying con man who conned Howard Schultz and the Sonics. I look forward to seeing the crowds throughout year 1 and ESPECIALLY year 2 when if losing continues, the novelty wears off. Note attendance fell more and more as Bennett dismantled the current Sonics team, which helped, in part, breed public negativity. As we all know, winning cures most wills, losing exposes all flaws. I could respect Bennett if he simply would say this was a grand plan to buy the team, promise to stay, set a "golden ring so high" for public financing that it would be tough to attain, turn the team into a performance laughingstock, then watch as fan apathy helped their case. Stern followed along and they got their wish. For once, now that you won, Clay, tell the truth.

Love the KNights logo at top (1st post) Oklahoma City Knights JUST rolls off the tounge.