At first I was ecstatic. A Seattle icon will be the voice of the new Seattle Sounders FC. Kevin Calabro, in the booth, calling the game, making soccer come alive in Seattle. But then, I started thinking. Am I going to like KC calling a soccer match? When he speaks will I just hear echoes of Sonic basketball? Am I ready for such a familiar figure donning a different shade of green?
Seattle Sonics
22 July 2008
3 July 2008
I am furious. The Sonics are gone and America doesn't seem to care. On today's Around the Horn 3 of 4 panelists said the NBA is better off in Oklahoma City. That statement is ludicrous.
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Like most, I am upset about the departure of Seattle's beloved SuperSonics, but I am not writing to vent or point fingers, but rather make other interesting points.
Interesting Point #1: How will the NBA's western conference be aligned? Or is the NBA just going to rename the Northwest division? Oklahoma City is not the northwest and as a resident of the northwest I would be annoyed by the labeling of Oklahoma City as northwest. It's just not right. Are they going to be put in the Southwest division, where they belong, making western conference divisions unbalanced? We'll see.
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24 June 2008
Last year's NBA draft was easy as a Sonics fan. Take either Durant or Oden, whoever was left. This year however, it’s a whole new ball game. As soon as it was announced the Sonics would have the fourth pick in this draft I thought “what does that mean?” Now, I'm not stupid, I understand what having the fourth pick means, I just didn't know what that would get them.
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17 June 2008
As the trial regarding the Seattle Sonics continues I am again infuriated at the whole situation. Most of my frustration is not with Clay Bennett though. Although he is most likely taking our Sonics away he is a business man with interests of his own. I am more frustrated with David Stern and the NBA.
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12 June 2008
The situation that should be David Stern’s worst nightmare continues. I say should because Stern continues to brush aside “rogue” former NBA official Tim Donaghy. In the past couple of days Donaghy has claimed that NBA officials have influenced the outcome of NBA playoff games, including, perhaps most notably, game six of the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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