Starting 5 in OKC

Little care I.

No offense to the former Sonics (many of whom I am a fan of), but I will never root for this team.  This franchise makes the Baltimore Ravens look like the Green Bay Packers in comparison. 

I hope that Howard Schultz's countersuit is somehow successful (although he never should have sold to the out-of-town ownership group) and that order can be restored to the NBA landscape.  I think it sucks that David Stern supported this move, the city of Seattle took a settlement after taking Clay Bennett to court and, most of all, it sucks that the fans in the Pacific Northwest are getting absolutely shafted. 

I'm proud of the Sonics fans who wish to effectively wash their hands of the NBA and have absolutely no interest in supporting a team poached from another market in the future (you know, like the Grizzlies or Bobcats).  I admire and agree with that perspective thoroughly.  While I truly hope that somehow the Sonics will return in a great, hostoric venue with perhaps the most intimate arena in the league, it appears that the NBA will erode as a result of this move and that, once again, sports in general will suffer and lose some of its innocence (an antiquated notion, sure, but why else are people fans?). 

SM, you nailed it just right. The hands are completely washed as after a bitter divorce why would you want to jump back into bed with a whore like david Stern.

Let's build that new state of the art arena for basketball (but for NCAA regionals only) and court the NHL. Time to give the canucks a NW rival!!

Time to start anew and not look back, just learn from past bad experiences and mistakes.

That line up mentioned could compete with well with the old CBA teams. Sorry for you OKC Poachers but it will take years to be competitve with that team as Clay did not think the City would screw up their case and then fold like they did. You got them two years early. Enjoy!