First warning. And you easily had the material to come up with them too.

We’re cooked.

Like New Orleans Hornets, Memphis Grizzlies, etc.

“I just talked to someone at Mayor Nickel’s office ((206) 684-4000) named Shannah (assistant/press person). She guaranteed me that no settlement is in the works and that it will only be the judges ruling today. I asked for her name and told her I would be calling back if there is any kind of settlement and she told me that would be fine and that there is no settlement. I don’t know who to believe.”

god f-ing hell get me off this ride

http://www.supersonicsoul.com/2008/07/team-leaving.html

just saying

the Sonics website makes me physically ill.

Yeah I live in Los Angeles and could hop on the Clipper (lulz) or Lakers band wagon but neither of those feels like real options.

The NBA just died for me today.

"We are pleased that the Sonics and the City of Seattle have settled their litigation. While the decision has been made to relocate the Sonics to Oklahoma City, the NBA continues to regard Seattle as a first-class NBA city that is capable of serving as home for another NBA team.

Early November:

“I’d love to find a way to keep the team there. Because if the team moves, there’s not going to be another team there, not in any conceivable future plan that I could envision, and that would be too bad.”

Interesting

14 years of fanship for this bullshit? Stern can get hit by a fucking monorail.

I’m not about to quit the NBA though. I’ve always had an affinity for the Trailblazers, seems like a good time to join the bandwagon. They are going to be good, really fucking good.

has been the people who have said “Let’s just get rid of the Sonics and Mariners and keep the Seahawks.”

Ultimately, the person mostly responsible for this is Schultz, for willingly selling to out of town investors stationed in a city that was looking for an NBA team. He should have had the sense to see the writing on the wall, no matter what promises they made about keeping the team in Seattle. I ultimately don’t think he cared who bought the team or what they planned to do with it, as long as got every dollar he could from the highest bidder. This is more his fault than anyone else’s, because he didn’t have to sell to Bennett, but he did anyway.

Once Bennett had the team, this was only a matter of time, no matter what the City did. If they had won the case, this would have just dragged on, cost the City money, and Bennett would’ve lawyered appeals to death until he got what he wanted anyway.

I will cut my name right into him.

Being screwed in game seven of the 1993 Western Conference finals, Mount Mutombo, turning the 1996 Chicago Bulls from “the greatest team ever” to “the best Bulls team ever”, the Sonics not only epitomized Seattle sports, but they were the first team I was ever heavily emotionally invested in.

I’d like to give a shout out to all the politicians who acted way too late, too slowly, not at all or actually IMPEDED resolution of this issue before it began gaining steam.

I take comfort in the fact that the vast majority of you just sealed your political doom, because we the voters will not forget.

I’d also like to thank Clay Bennett, Aubrey McClendon and the rest of the cast of Bonanza for not giving a shit about 41 years of Seattle Supersonics history. I am literally ashamed that I share the last name of the majority owner of this once proud franchise. May the Oklahoma City Team-Rapers be the WORST team in the league for many years to come, leaving all of those heavily invested in it’s fortunes financially barren.

David Stern, where would we be without you? You are a class-A felon, this highway robbery could not have occured if it weren’t for your staunch support of your fellow golfing buddy. Your suggestions that the fans here did not care…just went to show that you’d rather spit on a fanbase then help lift it up. I don’t want your empty promises for a “new” basketball team (recycled garbage from Memphis), I want my Seattle Supersonics. But mostly, right now I just want you to go to hell.

Finally, the biggest douchebag of them all. Howard Schultz. I find it difficult to believe that you never met Steve Ballmer or had a discussion with Slade Gordon. You sold the city’s soul to the devil and never blinked twice, and now you’re trying to save face by throwing out this ridiculous lawsuit which can’t be won. Fuck yourself up the ass with mochalatte spraynozzle you stupid prick.

Thank you all, once again, for collectively taking a giant shit on anyone who’s ever had the privelege and blessing of calling themselves a Seattle Supersonics fan. You deserve any and all misery in the years to come, because the good Lord knows you’ve inflicted it.