“The last few months we talked about why it made sense to put the team in the suburbs or north and follow the Cleveland Cavaliers model. There is growing recognition of downtown’s energy and there is now some sense that perhaps a downtown location should at least be considered, and so you’re going start to see ideas like that pop around.”
-Mayor Mick Cornett interview at ESPN.COM.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Steve, I can see why the suburbs would be good place for the prac. facility, but how do you choose where? North or South, east or west? We really can’t determine as of yet where the players and coaches may settle. Maybe it should be part of Core to Shore? Put it along the river and the players could even do their running along the river trails. Picture youreself sitting on a bench down there and K. Durant(Doo rant in Okie) comes running by. “Good game last night Kev!”
“Thanks!”
Pretty cool huh?!
Thanks for watching over downtown for us!
Tom Padberg
July 7th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I know of property, within walking distance of the Ford Center, on Reno Ave. that may be coming up for sale. I’m not sure if the property is large enough-I beleive it’s 1 block ?
Maybe staying in the Downtown/Bricktown area would be nice?
What are your thoughts?
July 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I would prefer not to have it in one of the few ‘urban’ areas of the city. There is no way that such a large facility would add to the vitality of an urban district!