Say goodbye to the Seattle SuperSonics

[deathridexxx]

Why don't they get rid of the Clippers and bring the Sonics back!!

[shostaTV]

The kings might move. If they do move them back to Seattle.

[ttinsley23]

OKC THUNDER now bitches.  Get over yourselves. You will never receive another team. The city of Seattle doesn't deserve another team with the amount of whiners and crybabies it produces. Go sip on some starbucks. What a shithole Seattle is...

[ahlahkyew33]

someone explain to me what clay bennet did to the sonics!

[webstedge1099]

At least you still have the storm lol

[TheLastR0L0]

@kklol7 no they won't becuz David stern is a weasel and somehow managed to squeeze out of paying that money to the city of seattle

[ThinkSkater170]

The oklahoma city thunder are one of the top western teams I doubt theyll move back.

[TheLastR0L0]

Wait ..... Doesn't this mean the Seattle sonics could be back by 2013 or 2014

[kklol7]

@TheLastR0L0 No. It means if they aren't back by then Seattle gets 30 million bucks.

[fun1234982]

Im not saying it was the fans fault, the owner should not have sold the team to a oklahoman, with the hornets just going back to new orleans a couple of years before that, he should have known Okc was trying to get a perminent team. I would love to see seattle get a new team because okc and sea would be a great rivalry

[baryam11]

bring sonics back !!

[MrDominic707]

R.I.P Sonics

[SamilsPilern243]

NOW ITS Oklahoma City Thunder

[vidas720]

FU Bennet!

[fun1234982]

Oklahoma City has the best fans in the nba, We have sellouts about every game. Seattle is a great basketball city and has a lot of history (this coming from a guy from Oklahoma) but they needed more support. So when your stadium is empty dont go crying that you lost your team.

[Supersonicsfan12]

@fun1234982 what are you talking about? we lost them cause of arena issues not bad fan support. learn your facts bud.

[fun1234982]

@Supersonicsfan12  nobody wanted to build an arena

[Supersonicsfan12]

@fun1234982 exactly. not the fans fault. they couldnt do anything about it. we definitely dont have bad fans, were die hard fans. we took our own time out of our schedule to do rallies around seattle to keep our team almost every week... just horrible and careless ownership which made us have our team leave.

[TheBloxxer]

I miss the sonics. Creative, original uniforms, huge fanbase, just a great team. I've been to some of their games, and it was fantastic. I loved the mascot, lol. So happy we won that game. That was Ray Ray's last season in Seattle.

R.I.P: Seattle SuperSonics, 1967-2008.

[mainstreamrapisweak]

seatle is better than oklahomo gay city i dont even know where that is wow

[AutumnRoberts3]

@mainstreamrapisweak Screw you, we arent homo by the way. so go cry to your imaginary fan and go to school cuz you obviously never went if you dont know where that is. OKLAHOMA city, its kinda obvious where it is

[theRevolutionaryMind]

I miss the Sonics. Now I don't feel like I have a NBA team to follow. Damn you

[mountainmojoe]

i wish our sonics never left. i mean look how good they are now! that could have been usss!!!! hugh, oh well. it kinda pisses me off though. damn clay bennett

[rebeljebb]

thanks for the team we are playoff bound.thunder-thunder-thunder

[jamesanderson26]

i went to a few of the games when they were here in tacoma. i was so pissed when they announced this. kevin durant would have been the greatest sonic ever, im sure that team will win a championship and durant will be multiple time mvp. sad.

FUCK CLAY BENNETT!!!!! fuckin snake.

[alhex123]

Go Seattle Sounders!!!!

[lley78]

no living in usa, i would like to knwo, if one day, sonics will come back? it's strange the management in the states...

[cashisabelle]

unbelievable....thanks god this "tradition" of selling and buying teams of relocating whole teams only exists in the states.

i mean just imagine someone would take Manchester united or Bayern Munich or Inter Milano and just relocate them-NO WAY ! people would stop to work and eat!

[DasPug]

I really wanted to see them go all the way back in 93-94, I will forever hate the Denver Nuggets!

[szalonymech02]

anybody knows - seattle can back in next season orlater ?

[AvEryBadApPLe]

0:55 there were many legends and a number of greats in the nba, but those 2 guys really did it for me.

[Baltimorehop]

The greatest thing about his clip was, the City of Seattle kept their name, logo & team mascot. I tried to stress that on a YT vid which addressed the former Baltimore Colts. I said I was down to petition for the City of Baltimore to put a bid in for their name & logo back. Of course I was blowing hot air at this stage in history but the point I was making was, you gotta stand up for something. I applaud the former Mayor of Cleveland who did stand up for the Cleveland Browns namesake & logo.

[mrceebees14]

I couldn't believe they moved this team, so I ask him "why did they move?"He said the fan attendance was real bad, which didn't sound right because I always knew the 'Sonics' as a popular team in Seattle.

Sorry to hear you guys lost your team, what you should get is an NHL hockey team, I heard they love hockey up in S town.

[mrceebees14]

This is how much I don't know about Basketball. I was reading an ESPN magazine and saw the "Oklahoma City Thunder" and said "who the F are they? I thought it was a college team, but they were playing an NBA team. I turned to my friend and said "Who are the these guys?" He said "you really don't watch basketball huh....they were the Seattle Supersonics" I couldn't believe it, always liked the Supersonics, had cool jerseys and that cool name. Plus the "X-man" way back in the day.

[405TL]

you were a Sonics fan but you had no idea the team moved to OKC? doesnt make much sence

[mrceebees14]

@405TL

I am not a Sonic's fan.

Make sense now?

[seaNOmercy]

I want to fucking punch Clay Bennet in his faggot ass face, I don't think the sight of another person in the world pisses me off more than the sight of this know-nothing, thieving ass, snake in the grass, doosh. Except maybe David Stern.

[88xlrider]

You forgot to mention they played some games in the Kingdome too. I went to the dome as a kid and saw them play The Lakers in one of Kareem Abdul Jabars last games ever. Seattle is my hometown, but they are retarded when it comes to sports. $500 mil for Mariners stadium! The Mariners suck. Go Mariners and take the Seahawkes with you. But keep the Super Sonics in Seattle!

[mikejones3rfs]

Sonics fans should blame themselves for the sonics leaving.OKC gave Clay Beanent a better arena and fans that were just as good or better.

[Fujico6]

as good or better? seattle is rated as 1 of the best sport citys in the country and even when the team was shit the sonics has up to 18,000 ppl at there games, dont type shit that makes no sense beanet was a bitch and wanted to go there cause his family was there.

[abc9650]

awsome.

[abc9650]

your right, We love the seahawks and are consistently terrible, while the Sonics were consistently good, yes thier last couple years here were not good at all, but previous to that they had gone to the playoffs 20 consecutive years. your meaning to tell me we love a Football team that has only gone to the superbowl once instead of a team that has consistently been good every year? rediculous

[Snake011100]

Atleast bring the uniform and name back.

[GOTHBALL666]

i dont watch alot of basketball but this wrong, pure and simple. if my football team moved i would be devastated. i hope the seattle fans get bigger and better team in the future. best of luck

[GermTarrot]

Thanks. iM IN seattle

[Buck2120]

Fuck Seattle. I'll shit on it's chest if I have to!

[gustavsaucedo]

atleat theres still other sport left for the washington area(mariners, seahawks, washington and washington state football and basketball)

[abc9650]

honestly, I think this city would not care if we never had Pro Football or Pro Baseball. We would rather just have the Sonics. if you don't live here, don't post stuff you don't know what your talking about.

[ALGrunge117]

I want my Basketball Team back!!! DX

Fuck the Owner for selling the team!!! DX

R.I.P. Seattle Super Sonics

1967-2008 :'(

[bwest92]

sorry man but having the sonics leave was not all clay bennet's fault he did whatever it took to keep the team in seattle. The key arena was the smallest venue in the league and it was 15 years old so obviously clay didn't want to continue operations there. Think of it this way at least people in oklahoma love your team I was a big time Vancouver Grizzles fan when i lived in toronto. When they left for memphis i thought they would be loved. Instead they've only treated my team like shit.

[robotwookie]

It breaks my heart. I want my Supersonics back so bad

[ad287]

Bennett paid good money for that team, and he had every right to move it......if Seattle fucked around that is, and wouldn't you know it, they sure as hell DID fuck around. Isn't it a little funny how 28 of 30 NBA owners and the Commissioner himself were in favor of allowing the team to move from Seattle to OKC? Was it just about money? Or was it the NBAs way of saying "don't fuck around, becuz you're not above the law, plenty of cities would love to have a team, so fuck your arrogant asses."

[KB24isbetterthanLBJ]

haha ad287 your a fuckin queer. fuck OKC they aint gonna win shit. nobody wants to stay in fuckin oklahoma. when durant,westbrook and green's contracts are up theyre leavin bitches

[marners100]

u know wats funny, i loved watching supersonics, since they left havent watched a nba game since. now dont get me wrong i still watch highlights of other games

[grioula12]

I miss Key arena

[XMIKE920]

I feel Sad for Seattle Fans. Their Asshole owner Bennett had to move them and abandon Seattle. Im a N.J. Nets fan but I say. Bring The Sonics Back To Seattle!!!!

[liweiwu007]

if you are a nets fan why would you care?

[XMIKE920]

well Its hard for other teams  to see their team leave im sympathetic

[liweiwu007]

isn't the nets going to relocate to brooklyn soon?

[XMIKE920]

Yea but Ill still support them

[cbraat27]

why?

[ToyMachineBum]

God I hate Oklahoma City thunder.

[kklol7]

I grew up watching the SuperSonics.

I miss them so much.

[liweiwu007]

i missed gary payton's 3 point bombs and shawn kemp's thunderous dunks.

[thepeepsof2009]

thunder suck real badly sonics were better the best

[RCMproductions]

Bennet SUCKS!!! Bring back the I-5 Rivalry!!!

[tatinum2]

omg supersonics pwnded

[slapshot68]

the new owner didnt want them to stay in seattle. bad move, his team is god dahm awful n no 1 is goin to the game. u think anybody wud kno who kevin durant is??

[the12thfactor]

damn. the only team to ever win us a championship leaves. fuck the haters! screw the cocky bitches who mock our shitty sports history!

go seahawks

go mariners

go thunderbirds

[kinglouis81]

if only that duo from seatle stuck together...now seatle doesnt even have a team,thats theyre karma for treating a great player like shawn kemp like garbage and trading the reign man for vin baker.....idiots

[choppytooth]

Sounder Sounders FC!

[dreyfus54]

people have no respect for history

especially clay bennett who moved the team

simply shameful

[ruvimg]

the thunder suk so does clay bennet they suck **** seattle supported sonics and the only reason okc has sellouts is being the tiket prices r cheap and because they a NBA team in a couple of years the only people that r going to come r clay bennet and the team and there going to win less then 10 games you suk okc go get your own championships dont seattle clay bennet took seattles cause he Knew Thunder wouldnt get any u suck ******

[TruWarriorz112]

but the name thunder is stupid though supersonics was one of the coolest names in th nba and u see the okc thunder uniform? it looks like the hornets uniform except lighter

[newyorkbaseballgiant]

the thunder are way better than the sonic they desveve an nba championchip you city is garbage i hate seattle. you need to shut your ignornt seattle mouth up and admit that the thunder is the best thing that happed for the nba since michel jordan.

[jpx08]

Go fuck yourself! You don't know shit diddly!

[BiH2oo7baller]

theee THUNDER (4-29)?!?!??!?! you are the bigest idiot if you believe the thunder were better then the sonics ever! psssshhh the best thing sice jordan dont you mean worst they are going to win a championship ever HAHAHA

[TheRatedIX7]

The OKC Thunder are not likely to get an NBA Championship anytime soon.

[DraikonZ3]

yall have won only wat like 12 games this season oklahoma city thunderfucks sux

[jeffkavsk8]

best since jordan??? obviously you dont watch a lot of basketball or know anything about it. the thunder is going no where and durant will leave. my high school team jerseys even look better then those pieces of shit

[newyorkbaseballgiant]

even though the thunder only have 3 wins they keep having sellouts that would never happen in seattle.

[DraikonZ3]

yeah cuz tickets are like 20 dollars

[newyorkbaseballgiant]

the nba is great without crappy seattle in the league. okc rules the people are very nice okc will support the thunder beter than you crappy wassintonins ever supperted the sonics. you city sucks

[jeffkavsk8]

why do you hate on seattle so much?

[lordstepalize]

The solution is moving the clippers to oklahoma and thunder back to seattle...i hope it will end that way.

[newyorkbaseballgiant]

david stern hates seattle and will not let seattle get another one thunder fans are better.

[PurpleMalita44]

you can't have the NBA without the Seattle Sonics, I'm from Baltimore so I know what you Sonics fans are going through, it's WRONG for a team to play in a city for so long then just up and move, wrong for the Colts to do and wrong for the Browns do to it(even though I love my Ravens and thank Modell for bringing football back to Baltimore, I wish we wouldn've got an expansion team instead of taking the Browns), chin up Seattle!

[Crunchyblackisreal]

LMAO the thunder barely got one win, they're more embarassing than the clippers, at least they play close games.

[devinm3]

The NBA: Where stealing the Sonics happens

[BostonBrown1285]

Dont say goodbye! say "see ya later"...

seattle's love for the team is too deep. theyll eventually come back. just like the cleveland browns did for cleveland.

seattle's reaction to the sonics leaving? "NO!!!"

OKC's reaction to the thunder coming to okc?

"neat..."

see ya later sonics

[bewiizy]

hell yah bring em' to okc, leave seattle behind!! get thunderstruck!

[heartyhoopz1184]

oh no! not thunderstruck!

seattle does upstage okc in just about everything, so i guess its only fair that we give you our sonics. enjoy.

think of it like a 20 point head start in a game of 1 on 1. adorable little okc wants to play with the bigger, better cities. how cute.

[aimone405]

bigger better citys?u funny okc is huge its like the 7th or 8th biggest city in usa and i dont mean the size of a skyline the whole city and to be honest ive been watching your team and they fuckin suck im pretty sad we got a shitty team

[heartyhoopz1184]

no no. you dont understand...

in regards to the number of people actually living inside the city of oklahoma city, yeah its like 7th or 8th...but your metropolitan area is ranked 44th. seattles is ranked 13th. the size of the city is measured by its metroplitan area. you have a million. we have 3.5 million. so basically theres 3.5 times as many sonics fans then there would be thunder fans. do you understand?

[aimone405]

haha yea man i understand theres more people but its not like all those people go to everygame u forget about the other citys like tulsa they gonna be supporting them to they already askin us to let thunder play a game in tulsa

[jpx08]

More like "ThunderSUCK!"!

[ryan9942]

I agree, any Sonics fan should hate them more than the Celtics.

[74569264965926359236]

hey respect the sonics respect kevin durant fuck the thunder dallas mavs will destroy the thunder

[mikedude1234]

say good bye to Ray Allen, Kevin Durrant's old team no more sonics anymore so sad =(

[Hookinfinger3]

dude ur a little late on that.. its not like ray just left...

[Welshmonster87]

Seattle SuperSonics RIP :(.

[D0nkeyLips]

lol remeber that time when we stole your team?

[lavelliINC]

remember that time your weak ass team "thunder" was 1-10? LOL bad karma, don't expect them to have a decent season anytime soon.

[jpx08]

Hopefully they will never have a good season. I hope somebody placed a curse on them. They deserve nothing less.

[crazymonkey5644]

I Miss My Sonics!!!! :( oaklahoma take care of them

[arh3721]

Didn't the Government ship the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma (Trail of Tears) in the mid 1800's because the land was a S***hole? I'm from Portland and I loved the I-5 rivalry every year. Rooted for the Sonics in the finals against the Bulls when I was a kid. But now Seattle has been raped by the wannabe totalitarian commish and some backwater owner from OKC. It's like the Trail of Tears all over again, except this time its the memory of the Sonics that is moving south. Go B-roy and the Blazers!

[AnErrorHasOccurred]

The OkcNBA Team is going to really experience a lot of support with every game selling out , & the fan base will be one of the best in the country.

[BIGTYFAN]

Why are you people being so ignorant on this subject? Oklahom City did not give the Ford Center to anyone. The City owns the arena, The Team To Be Named Later is just the primary tenant. They will lease the arena for the dates they need just like the Blazers and Yard Dawgz as well as any concerts, rodeos, conventions, NCAA tournaments or other attractions that come to OKC. Why shouldn't we have one of the nicer arenas in the country to help attract more major events to our city?

[ad287]

Well, you better get used to it, because OKC is trying to continue growing as a city, and this was the next step. Whether you like basketball or not, you need to be on board with this because it's a very big deal for our city, or did you not know that? Every city has to spend money for sports teams, we're no different, we knew we'd have to kick in, but it's worth it, trust me. Go to a game, and I guarantee you, the NBA will grow on you, it's a lot different when you have your own team.

[Jeff98177]

Clearly, "Ad" stands for "arrogant d**k". Your ignorance is astonishing.

[Epestoso]

Hey people, this America, where if a man wants to move something he OWNS to another city, then he can as long as he pays the appropriate fees in order to break any leases that he might have.

What pissed me off about this is that Oklahoma City raised it's sales tax to get the Supersonics over here. I sometimes have to purchase items in Oklahoma City and I don't even like basketball. So I'm paying for something that does not interest me at all. That's bullshit.

[joeu87]

they didnt raise the sales tax they just didnt lower them from a sales tax that was going to exp. in dec of this year

[Epestoso]

Yes, it is a tax raise.

If a tax is scheduled to go DOWN but then a measure to keep it in place is passed, then that makes the taxes higher than they would have been if the measure had not been passed. If taxes are higher with a certain law than they are without it, then that law IS a tax raise.

[BIGTYFAN]

So you have also paid for the previous MAPS and other projects that I assume don't intrest you since you apparently don't live in OKC. Norick Library, Civic Center, Brictown Ballpark, Bricktown Canal, Ford and Cox Centers new Police and Fire facilities and equipment, New public parks, New and renovated schools. Damn, poor guy! Who is it that's forcing you to make purchases in OKC and pay for all of those things that are improving the lifestyle of everyone in the metro? Those dirty SOBs!

[Epestoso]

It's never a good idea to take PUBLIC FUNDS and give them to RICH SPORTS TEAM OWNERS.  Only dumbass street monkeys like you think that, "giving it away" is a good thing to do with public funds.

I hope the Oklahoma City basketball team never makes any money or wins any games. I hope that the team is such a dismal failure that taxpayers everywhere think twice before giving their hard-earned money to some rich team-owner.

You spelled Bricktown wrong, imbecile.

[BIGTYFAN]

@Epestoso Well, here we are two years later. How's that hating the Thunder working out for you? Um, let's see, selling out every game, making lots of money, winning tons of games, winning their division, winning first round playoff series, only need to win 2 out of 3 (with 2 at home) to play for the conference championship. OKC & MEM are the most talented young team in the NBA The investment of public funds has already been repaid tenfold. Just ask any merchant within 10 miles of downtown OKC.

[adamforest]

@BIGTYFAN You're a piece of shit to wish hate and sadness on the people of Seattle. We lost their oldest pro franchise to heartless jerks like you. I hope one day, after OKC starts losing and your fans go back to their cornfields, that you experience what we have gone through. But you'll never understand what it was like, because there's no way the Thunder lasts 41 years in that dustbowl.

[aimone405]

fuck seattle

[longdongtlee]

why do tax payers have to pay for sport arena's? other teams owners paid for them. also they should have fied key arena long time ago. i mean a long time ago. talk about a big ass porta potty!!!!it's a crap house honestly. the seahawks have new stadium, shitty mariners have new stadium. so when we get new team lets have a new stadium paid for buy the new owners and not the taxpayers. unless we become business partners like in greenbay.....hmmmm what an idea.....

[TheWab111]

screw clay

[myttd]

fuck stern fuck okc fuck clay bennet. im going be so happy if the starbucks dude wins his case. then stern and bennet can fuck eachother and cry FUCK OKC

[nguyenthanh8]

i feel bad for the city. i hope the sonics whom moved to OKlahoma, will never win a champ, until seatttle wins one. cuz it will hurt the city if the team all of a sudden gets fuckin good.

[USAGiant]

Stern should have just given Oklahoma an expansion team plain and simple. And let the Sonics stay in Seattle.

[jpx08]

Sports teams relocating always sucks! Cities and fans should never have to subjected to this.

[rebeljebb]

screw seattle bunch of losers

[saveoursonics94]

screw you u faggot.

[armypike1]

HAHAHAHAHA WE JACKED YO SHIT

[TipBunny]

:( do do doooo

[brookside1]

but Hurricane Katrina was caused by G.W. wasn't it?-- ohh no Mother Nature. The deaths were caused by RAY NAGEN.-- the Mayor. But the points about Katrina having something to do with it, are well taken.

[TheMightyMrBen2008]

This is horrible, but someone's gotta say it: If it weren't for Hurricane Katrina, none of this would have happened. The Hornets wouldn't have had to go to OKC, and the people there wouldn't have realized that they like the NBA. Bennett wouldn't have gone after another team once the Hornets returned to New Orleans, and Schultz could have sold the Sonics to a locally-based owner.

[dead29th]

he totally stole the sonics rather that the hornets, grizzlies, or other franchises because those teams didnt have a good fan base and future to begin with. if he steals an established team, it has a better chance of survival there.

[MrDariusJWilliams]

@TheMightyMrBen2008 That makes a lot of sense.

[dwaynewadesucks]

You can have our Clippers. It's an extra team

[dead29th]

lmao, nice.

[Ltron9]

I made that suggestion to a friend before this happened. LA doesn't need 2 teams. Send Baron Davis to Seattle...

[hvale2k5]

Seattle is a failure city, its all business, ticket sell was so low in the past years and that why they moved to a new city.

[Arbie27]

Ticket sales are low for every team that doesn't do well. People don't want to buy a bad product. I think its going to be funny about 3 years from now when Durant and Green's rookie contracts are over and they bolt out of that intollerant city (that didn't want the storm because it promoted a lifestyle that they didn't like Hint: Lesbians) and OKC's team makes no money and falls apart. They'll be up to move agian in 15 years at most.

[dead29th]

that is a horrible excuse because the population in seattle is a lot more than okc, and if you think the ticket sales are low now, wait until the losing seasons in okc. the only games that will sell any tickets are when they play a team with a superstar like lebron or kobe. ticket sales are low because the ownership made bad player decisions intentionally to disenfranchise the fan base, so it wouldnt be obvious that this was all planned.

[saveoursonics94]

do you know anything u fruitcake

[thunderstruck665]

I guess you can say that Clay Bennett is the NBA's Art Modell. Who the hell puts a professional sports franchise in Oklahoma City?? What a stupid move! Almost as bad as putting an NHL team in Columbus! Hopefully, the Sonics will get an already existing franchise to move to Seattle rather than an expansion team. Perhaps a team that doesn't have a solid fan base like the Memphis Grizzlies who probably shouldn't have ever existed in the first place.

[dead29th]

Clay bennet is evil, anyone who thinks removing basketball from one city to give it to another, he must be rich to think that is a happy moment, what an as*hole! And the mayor? i cant believe he sold out for so little, what a punk! the 45 mil, wont get you another team. and the rest of the money wont go to seattle cause there will probably be a loophole, like using a d-league team to keep from paying the rest. bad move mayor! bad bad move!!

[6ft1height]

FUCK CLAY BENNET!

[Ltron9]

I feel the same way about the owner of my team, Jim Dolan! I feel bad for the hardcore Seattle fans! I'm a Knick fan but used to LOVE Shawn Kemp; what a dunker! (I had that classic "Reignman" poster, the one where he's super imposed on the Seattle skyline...