Sonicsgate - REQUIRED VIEWING FOR NBA FANS
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If you can waste 44 minutes of your day, you should watch this award-winning documentary. It covers the Sonics' last two years of existence in Seattle and everything that went down that lead to the team's relocation & rebranding as today's Oklahoma City Thunder. It has interviews from Seattle sports media members, former team executives, former players, and everything.
Here's a Hulu link, but you can also find it on Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, PlayStation Store, Xbox Video, Vudu & iTunes.
This can happen to any of your teams, even those in large markets.
Here's a Hulu link, but you can also find it on Amazon Instant Video, Google Play, PlayStation Store, Xbox Video, Vudu & iTunes.
This can happen to any of your teams, even those in large markets.
Nick Licata is a motherfucking cunt. Holy shit, does that guy's face ever beg for a good punch in the teeth.
Great documentary. Thanks for posting! I never had all the details straight with the history of the Sonics move.
I'd say I feel sorry for Sonics fans, but that's straight bull. Bunch of hypocritical clowns trying to play the woe is me card and how no city deserves to have their team stolen from them but they were all chomping at the bit with Ballmer on the brink of taking the Kings. I'll never forget their endless cockbag trolling. Fuck 'em.
The only guy I sympathize with is Sherman Alexie (guy who closed the docu about robbing a city of their team to bring the Sonics back to Seattle).
Great documentary. Thanks for posting! I never had all the details straight with the history of the Sonics move.
I'd say I feel sorry for Sonics fans, but that's straight bull. Bunch of hypocritical clowns trying to play the woe is me card and how no city deserves to have their team stolen from them but they were all chomping at the bit with Ballmer on the brink of taking the Kings. I'll never forget their endless cockbag trolling. Fuck 'em.
The only guy I sympathize with is Sherman Alexie (guy who closed the docu about robbing a city of their team to bring the Sonics back to Seattle).
I can't even be mad at you for having that stance.
I just ask that you try to empathize at least. That ordeal with the Kings was two years ago. It had been 5 years since the Sonics had left, at that point. David Stern and the other owners wouldn't even entertain an argument for expansion. And this new ownership group was our best legit shot at having a team. And in the end, we got screwed by the same thing we got screwed by when the Sonics left in the first place: A good ol' boys club and backroom deals. Fool me once and all that.
We're still working on getting a team here, and the arena process is a formality at this point. I can't speak for other Sonics fans, but I can at least apologize for any trouble we may have caused you as a Kings fan.
I just ask that you try to empathize at least. That ordeal with the Kings was two years ago. It had been 5 years since the Sonics had left, at that point. David Stern and the other owners wouldn't even entertain an argument for expansion. And this new ownership group was our best legit shot at having a team. And in the end, we got screwed by the same thing we got screwed by when the Sonics left in the first place: A good ol' boys club and backroom deals. Fool me once and all that.
We're still working on getting a team here, and the arena process is a formality at this point. I can't speak for other Sonics fans, but I can at least apologize for any trouble we may have caused you as a Kings fan.
After watching that documentary I think the OKC logo I make should just be Stern fellatiating Bennett while Bennett shoves a Lightning bolt shaped dildo up Schultz's ass.
By db Go To PostAfter watching that documentary I think the OKC logo I make should just be Stern fellatiating Bennett while Bennett shoves a Lightning bolt shaped dildo up Schultz's ass.
It's so fucked, man.
Worse part is, David Stern overseen the Kings deal, too. Pulled some backward shit in that one as well. Got fucked by the same dude twice.
EDIT: DB, here's a director's cut of the same documentary. This one goes into more detail about Schultz's failings & Mayor Nickle's... failings.
https://youtu.be/rKP4KBCzRCM
By blackace Go To Postbe awesome to get an expansion but if they were planning that they wouldn't have had to rob SeattleThe rumor I've heard is that if Seattle had built the new arena, Bennett would have sold to a Seattle owner because he had essentially been promised a team one way or another by Stern. OKC proved its ability to support an NBA team when they hosted the Hornets after Hurricane Katrina.
Probably would have been least painful for everyone if the Hornets had just stayed in OKC, but George Shinn didn't want to sell. We all know how that eventually worked out. Basketball reasons, etc.
Interesting to think about the what-ifs in that scenario. Chris Paul might still be in OKC, and it's doubtful that the same team would have been assembled around KD in Seattle. Westbrook, Ibaka and Harden were not surefire locks for the positions where they were drafted.
By KingGondo Go To PostThe rumor I've heard is that if Seattle had built the new arena, Bennett would have sold to a Seattle owner because he had essentially been promised a team one way or another by Stern. OKC proved its ability to support an NBA team when they hosted the Hornets after Hurricane Katrina.
that's an interesting way to rewrite history
By blackace Go To Postthat's an interesting way to rewrite historyWhat are you talking about.
By KingGondo Go To PostWhat are you talking about.
They were very shady in their intentions from start and were possessed with moving the team. There is documented proof of them saying such. The fact that they had renovations already approved to go well before Seattle had a chance to workout plans for a new arena after the ridiculous proposal Clay gave Renton shows how low they went. The fact that they bold faced lied to get the team sold to them is bad enough.. For some reason I doubt they could have been promised much, the Sonics were close to the only team at that time. The Hornets couldn't have moved after Katrina and the Kings and Bucks were years down the road..