The NBA Needs To Stop Cock Teasing The Fine People Of Seattle
(SI) – The NBA will play its first game in Seattle in a decade this preseason, scheduling a contest between the Warriors and Kings at KeyArena on Oct. 5.
Tip-off is slated for 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN.
The matchup will feature a homecoming for Kevin Durant. The two-time champion spent his rookie year in Seattle before the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City following the 2007-08 season, changing their name to the Thunder in the process. Durant won Rookie of the Year in the last season of Sonics basketball, averaging 20.3 points per game
Shame on you NBA, shame on you. Perhaps the biggest injustice in the league today is the fact that Seattle still doesn’t have an NBA franchise, and now with this news coming out that the league will play a preseason game there that involves a pretty good former Sonics player is just downright rude. Someone has to stick up for the fine people of Seattle, and I figure why not be that person. This is mean and uncalled for, there’s really no other way to put it. This is a city that has been CRAVING a basketball team since the Sonics became the Thunder in 2008, is a proven market with an avid fanbase and it’s a downright travesty that here we are 10 years later and things haven’t changed. So what does the NBA do? They bring in a guy who Sonics fans I’m sure thought was going to be their next great franchise player and cock tease the shit out of them with meaningless basketball.
It’s one thing when we hear about a new ownership group that talks about moving the team to Seattle, like what happened when the Kings were up for sale back in 2013, but it’s another level to literally bring basketball back to Seattle only to torment that city. I just don’t see the point of doing this to be honest. You think Sonics fans are going to suddenly be OK with the fact that they don’t have an NBA team because the league brings some preseason games to the area? Come on. If the league isn’t going to expand and bring basketball back permanently, then it’s time they give serious consideration to relocation. Let a fanbase that doesn’t really give a shit about their NBA team be the ones that get a random preseason game. If I had to rank them I’d probably have it like this
1. Orlando
2. Memphis
3. Atlanta
4. Charlotte
Sure there may be some fans that are upset, but I guarantee you these teams would draw more fans in Seattle than in their current cities. The fact is Sonics fans have suffered enough, and rubbing salt on their wounds by brining in fake basketball isn’t going to cut it. If Adam Silver wants to cement his legacy as the best NBA commissioner of all time, he’ll do what’s right and bring back an NBA franchise to this basketball starved city. It’s time.
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