David Stern LOVES Key Arena!!

This video is from the Sonics PPV telecast of the first home game in the newly remodeled Key Arena, from Nov. 4, 1995.

For those people who feel we've done nothing for the Sonics in Seattle, we did something for the Sonics 13 years ago, before Safeco Field, before Qwest Field, we remodeled the old, outdated Seattle Coliseum.

It was very well received around the league, and I'm sure David Stern loved that it was built to specifications that didn't fit NHL requirements, ensuring that Seattle sports fans would only have the Sonics to follow in the winter and spring.

So...Key Arena is no good anymore, after only 13 years? After it was loved by the team, and the league when it opened? Now a second remodel isn't good enough for David Stern or Clay Bennett? We have to give $500 million for a new arena, or the team leaves Seattle?

I post this video to show fans in Oklahoma that what David Stern and Clay Bennett are saying now, about how wonderful the Ford Center will be with a remodel, in 10-12 years' time, they'll be coming after you. Just like in Seattle, that remodel will not be good enough anymore. You're going to have to go through it all over again. And if you say, "enough!", you will probably lose your team too.

How messed up is the NBA business model, when buildings must be remodeled or built every 12 years? If you're not a fan of the Lakers, Bulls, Knicks, or Celtics, will your team be at risk someday?

For those who care, the Sonics beat the Lakers in this game, 103-89.

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• OKC
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[ovensleeper]

SCREW YOU DAVID STERN!!!

[2002films]

I hope you get 25 years to life stern 

[MrTwilight3030]

@jpx08 well whenever the NBA comes back we got a team ha ha ha..so fuck rainy ass fleattle and fuck huskies lol we OU SOONERS BABY NUMBER FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE LAND

[MrTwilight3030]

@jpx08 well whenever the NBA comes back we got a team ha ha ha..so fuck rainy ass fleattle and fuck huskies lol we OU SOONERS BABY NUMBER FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE LAND

[jpx08]

FUCK OKC! FUCK THE NBA! FUCK STERN! GO HUSKIES!

[jpx08]

@MrTwilight3030 FUCK OKC! It doesn't matter anyway. The NBA season is probably going to be scrubbed. Your boy Stern has ruined the NBA! We in Seattle are quite happy with college hoops now so you can keep your shitty team and your NBA!

[mlemour]

Seattle won't get an arena in Seattle anymore.Stern says that he wants it in Bellevue. So we will have to build it there. Also your new NHL can be in Seattle as long as it is not in Key Arena. Remodeling Key Arena isn't the answer. You have to rebuild it from scratch. So that means you will have to build an NHL arena by Quest/Safeco. Key arena has no real parking, no close access to the freeway, in small neighborhood. So looks like show is over at the KEY Arena area!

[MrTwilight3030]

@Ftramza  no im a cracker

[Ftramza]

@MrTwilight3030 are you black? its pretty evident in your use in vocabulary

[Ftramza]

@MrTwilight3030 are you black?

[MrTwilight3030]

I LOVE DAVID STERN THANX FOR BRINGING THE THUNDERS STERN WE LOVE YA IN OKC...FUCK SEATTLE THE PLAYERS OUR GLAD THEY LEFT....AND LOOK IT SHOWS WE BEATING ASS

[starseed100]

Look at that dorky face of this nerd, the one everyone picked on in school and a virgin till his thirties, how he got this authority is a fucken joke, he knows nothing about basketball. He is a 2 faced piece of shit. Makes you wanna slap him and say shut the fuck up you dork!!!!