Comments on: ESPN Anchor Says Save Sonics

By: RJ

RJ — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:30:23 +0000

“They don’t dupe a whole city into covering the whole thing for them, then keep all the revenue. That city would be OKC”

Your prediction was a little off

By: Myk

Myk — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:21:34 +0000

I found this amusing in today’s Sports Illustrated article:

The deal calls for the SuperSonics to pay the city $1.6 million annually for use of the building and reimburse $409,000 a year to replace revenue from naming rights for the arena. The 15-year agreement has an exit clause if attendance falls after the first two years.

- Looks like Clay “Hometown Boy Done Good” Bennett…will still negotiate a CYA clause even in his home town. Again…careful what you wish for guys.

By: michael u.

michael u. — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:48:32 +0000

AND SMALL GROUP. OVER 300 MADE THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL (1 HOUR DRIVE EACH WAY) TO PUT SOME PRESSURE ON THE LEGISLATURE. BUT, THEY RAN OUT OF TIME. WHICH MEANS OUR LOVELY MAYOR (YES, THE SAME MAYOR YOUR MAYOR COMES TO OUR LOVELY CITY TO VACATION WITH), WILL GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, AND WE THE CITY WILL PAY THE $75,000,000 ASKED OF THE LEGISLATURE. I GUESS R.T. DOESNT KNOW WHAT REAL MONEY CAN DO. WE HEARD ALL OKLAHOMA LIVES OFF THIER WIVES LIKE CLAY BOY!!!! SEE YA IN JUNE R.T!!!

LOVE,

MIKE U.

By: James

James — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:27:13 +0000

A small group of hardcore fans? Let’s not mistake the fan base of the Sonics refusal to bow down to Clay Bennett and give him a half a billion dollar arena with their tax dollars as a sign they don’t care about their team.

Are you serious that your going to love this team in Oklahoma as much as we do in Seattle. You get the Sonics, and it’s not really your team. This team was born here in 1967, and you think your going to find some civic pride in your team knowing it was stolen from another city? I don’t know about anybody else, but if someone gave me a stolen tv, I sure as hell wouldn’t take pride in having it.

By: Myk

Myk — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:26:51 +0000

It seams that the pity party for Seattle fans has started. But most of these people don’t even know the facts. There is a small group of hard core Sonics fans in Seattle but no one else even cares about the NBA. A small group can make a lot of noise you know. If they took a vote today in Seattle to approve funding an Arena to save the sonics it would be a landslide defeat.

- What is amusing about this quote is that the “small group of hard core Seattle fans”….still out numbers the amount of OKC fans (both hard core and fair weather fans). That is what doesn’t make any sense about the move. While a larger percentage of the population might support an NBA team in OKC there are still a significantly greater number of potential cutomers available in Seattle to make money off of…

OKC is only considered a great sports town because it appears that a larger percentage of people will support the team. One must say “appears” because using the novelty of two years with NO as a basis of anything is one of the silliest ideas ever. Of course people are going to go out and watch a team with one of the best young PGs ever when they know it is a limited engagement. It is like when Broadway shows are about to close…people are forced to go ASAP or else they know they will never attend again.

What any true honest OKC citizen (and NBA fan) must admit is that while there is a chance of the team being widely successful in the city (San Antonio may be used as a model…although it is strange that they’ve had to redo their Arena three times in 15 years) there is a much greater chance we will just have another Memphis/New Orleans/Charlotte situation on our hands.

As the old saying goes…be careful what you wish for.

By: joey

joey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:06:09 +0000

yes, im a proud tree hugger, and i love coffee. but no starbucks!!!
and rt, once again your wrong. nothing is more important than civic pride

By: Clay

Clay — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:05:13 +0000

THE SALE OF THE SONICS WAS DONE BACK DOOR TO BENNETT. THE TEAM WAS NEVER, NEVER OFFERED TO LOCAL OWNERSHIP BECAUSE BENNETT WAS DESPERATE FOR A TEAM AND OVERPAID WITH STERNS APPROVAL.. YOU CANNOT COMPARE THIS TO ANY PROFESSIONAL FRANCHISE MOVE, IT WAS DONE FOR SPITE TO THE CITY AND FANS OF SEATTLE. THE PENDING TRAIL WILL PROVE ALL OF THIS….WATCHING FROM THE BAY AREA THIS IS GOING TO BE EXCITING.. CANT WAIT…

By: R.T.

R.T. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:52:31 +0000

Bunch of seattle trolls.

Have a cup of jo and hug a tree. More important things to worry about than the sonics.

By: joey

joey — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:43:49 +0000

we are the majority! and rt your the first okie ive seen on this oklahoman web site, in days! all seattlites!

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:37:01 +0000

Funny how the 1% of people in favor of this potential relocation all come from Oklahoma….AMAZING, I’m SHOCKED!….nevermind Bill Walton, Bill Simmons, Larry Miller (Jazz Owner), Henry Abbott, David Aldridge, Ray Allen, and all of the other journalists, experts, players and people NOT FROM SEATTLE, who aren’t shy about acknowledging how wrong this whole situation is, and how big of a liar Clay Bennett is.

It’s not a pity party. It’s calling a guy out on his word, and holding him to it. OUR local business people are willing to pay $150 Million (That’s 50%) toward an arena to keep the team here. That’s on top of the inflated $350 Million they’re willing to pay Bennett to buy the team back. That’s what real business owners do…they become a primary investor in their OWN BUSINESS. They don’t dupe a whole city into covering the whole thing for them, then keep all the revenue. That city would be OKC. But remember…he HAD to have a $500 million arena in Seattle, or nothing. Yet, an upgrade of less than $200 million will suffice in OKC…yeah…makes a LOT of sense.

OKC should get an NBA team. Period. I’m in favor of that, in fact most Seattle people are, and acknowledge that the citizens of OKC have nothing to do with Bennett’s dishonesty. However, hi-jacking a team with the history that the Sonics have in Seattle, and doing it all on the back of a lie and complete deception, should be addressed and many people in the industry are addressing it. The forementioned are just a few.