the Sonics were my first sports love. I had season tickets during the 97-98 and 98-99 seasons. I loved cheering for Hersey Hawkins and Detlef Schrempf. I begged my mom to buy Hawkins’ used Landcruiser when I saw it on sale a a Toyota Dealer. Loved having all those three points shooters (Dale Ellis, Greg Anthony, Sam Perkins, I believe we had 5 guys with 3p% of 41.5 or higher that year). I loved booing Payton (sorry Bender) because he got too much love and Baker because he was a fat slob who didn’t rebound enough and loved taking the 18 foot jumper despite being 6’11", having long arms, and shooting unguarded 15 footers at a 46% clip (He shot 45% , Olden Polynice shot 30.9% that year). Seriously, look at Bakers 97-98 seasons to his 98-99 seasons. Just a horrible drop off.
I loved the Ray Allen, Rashard Lewis, Frodo, Collison etc. new Sonics, and was starting to love the Durant, Green, combo.
I’m glad they made a documentary about it, and I hope it gets attention from more than just PAC NWers.

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I went to the seattle premiere and it was a sad house let me tell ya.

My daughter was born that wednesday the judge ruled on the motion to move the team so my daughter is tied to Seattle/Sonics history forever.

sadest day of my life and the best day of my life all at once.

Ok, 3rd saddest day; hawks losing the SB was 2nd, and the day my mother died was 1st.

I attended the home opener the last season they were here, it was such an electric environment, the whole game shouts of “Save our Sonics!!”. I could barely talk the next day I was so hoarse (usually only happens at Hawks games). I’ve been a lifelong Sonics fan and when they left, it ripped my heart out. I still follow KD and Collison, but I have no respect for the Thunder as a franchise.

Fuck Clay, fuck Nickels, and fuck Stern.

SOS forever.

The Seahawks and Mariners were always my two big teams (and the Sounders have stolen my heart as well). So I was unable to react with the pain and misery that some did. It definitely sucked, and I always loved Gary Payton. But I was too young to fall in love with the mid 90’s Sonics, and the Sonics I grew up with were the Schultz Sonics. A hard team to fall in love with. But as I watched this movie, I couldn’t help but think, “What if this was the Seahawks? What would I do? How would I feel?” And I could empathize. And you’re just left with a feeling of…“I hate this, it sucks, it’s breaking my heart. And there’s nothing I can do…”.

And that’s the worst part of it all. There’s nothing you can do, no hope. Because as Sherman Alexei said, even if we get a new team it won’t be our team. It will be someone else’s team. And we will be breaking the hearts of another team. And we won’t even get our history back.

Well, now I’m depressed.

Very well done documentary.

Does anyone know what the verdict would have been on the Key Arena lease, or was that document destroyed?

Made for some interesting raison bran breakfast companion.

saw signs to keywest, made me sad.

The End.

FUCK YOU!!!!

YOU STOLE THE HISTORY OF OUR FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM.

How can Clay Bennet sleep at night knowing his teams history doesn’t belong to them?

But I can’t. I’m still too angry & bitter over the whole mess – any attempted comment would devolve into a 10 paragraph rant that ended with a call for Stern’s head on a Pike outside Key Arena.

I’m still just trying to let it go.

Or Nets.

that team, along with several others, are crippling the NBA.

Now that the Sonics are gone, I never want another NBA team. FUCK the NBA for letting Clay Bennet steal this team from us.

I could say FUCK to a whole bunch of folks on this but ultimately the NBA didn’t do anything to step in and say “hey wait a minute here, this isn’t right” so I say FUCK the NBA.