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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    Quote Originally Posted by RainierBeachPoet
    it does feel like a big loss for me

    can anyone else tell that i am pissed?
    I feel for ya bro. I grew up watching some of their games at Key Arena and visiting the city. Lots of precious memories.

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    I also feel terrible for anyone who is employed with the organization. I read that the Sonics employ over 1200 people in Seattle. For a lot of those people, it's probably going to hit them hard.

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    Quote Originally Posted by mlh1981
    I also feel terrible for anyone who is employed with the organization. I read that the Sonics employ over 1200 people in Seattle. For a lot of those people, it's probably going to hit them hard.
    damn

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Big deal...

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Quote Originally Posted by fiddy
    Big deal...
    trolls not needed in this thread as of this moment...

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Quote Originally Posted by gts
    because he sold the team to bennett or?

    honestly just wondering why the angst with him? (not to say it's not deserved, i just hav'nt follwed along close enough to know all the in and outs)

    vent away
    shultz could have easily sold the team to local investors. he was pissed because of the revenue deal with key arena which was the worst (for owners) in the nba

    it seemed like, to some of us, that he sold it to the okc guys out of spite and only later realized what could happen

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    Quote Originally Posted by mlh1981
    I also feel terrible for anyone who is employed with the organization. I read that the Sonics employ over 1200 people in Seattle. For a lot of those people, it's probably going to hit them hard.
    and you think bennett might give a flying sh!t

    those are jobs that okc will pick up

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Adding Euro and Asian teams wouldn't work. The foreign teams would be at a disadvantage because they would always be on 12 hour flights between road and home games and the domestic teams would also suffer with a 12 hour flight to the foreign teams.

    If you're going to try to go international, put a team in Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, or Panama.

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Quote Originally Posted by RainierBeachPoet
    shultz could have easily sold the team to local investors. he was pissed because of the revenue deal with key arena which was the worst (for owners) in the nba

    it seemed like, to some of us, that he sold it to the okc guys out of spite and only later realized what could happen
    ahh ok thanks for the incite... so he knew when he sold the team that there was a chance it would be moved for the same reasons he was having problems and instead of finding a buyer that would work with the city he just went for the cash out instead, or worse did it to punish the city...

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    Default man, f**k david stern

    he's done many great things for the NBA in the past (i'm talking more than a decade ago), but nowadays I think he's getting a little too old for this job. he's pulling a lot of bush league (no pun intended) moves. The NBA audience is mostly young adults. We need new blood in that front office.

    I always thought stern was comparable to george bush and stu jackson to dick cheney

    whenever i hear news about them, i hate them more

    He knows a lot more about the sonics and their rich history more than we do. He saw the franchise grow, and now that they're not producing bucks as much as they used to, he stabs them in the back. AS THE COMMISSIONER HE HAD EVERY RESPONSIBLITY TO AT LEAST APPEAR TO FEEL SYMPATHY FOR SEATTLE. NEVER HAS HE DONE that. He was encouraging bennett all the way, AND DID SO OPENLY IN FRONT OF THE MEDIA. GET YOUR OLD ASS OUTTA HERE

    fu*k david stern
    Last edited by nosurrender; 07-02-2008 at 09:54 PM.

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Quote Originally Posted by gts
    ahh ok thanks for the incite... so he knew when he sold the team that there was a chance it would be moved for the same reasons he was having problems and instead of finding a buyer that would work with the city he just went for the cash out instead, or worse did it to punish the city...
    if he didnt know, he is the most naive motherfu(ker in the world

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    Quote Originally Posted by RainierBeachPoet
    and you think bennett might give a flying sh!t

    those are jobs that okc will pick up
    Bennett is a punk b?tch.
    Last edited by Aldridge Fan; 07-02-2008 at 10:01 PM.

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    wow. very sad Bennett is greedy money hungry pig. I feel bad for seattle fans

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    Default Re: Breaking News: R.I.P Sonics

    Quote Originally Posted by veilside23
    trolls not needed in this thread as of this moment...
    that is lakers fan. why do you waste your time responding?

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    Default Re: Breaking News: Sonics will move to OKC

    i started this thread over a year ago:

    http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50272

    today is a very sad day

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