HAHAHA! SCREW YOU NEW ORLEANS.

[East Coast Hustle]

Really, this is your own fault anyway. If you hadn't pussed out after Katrina and played a season and a half in Oklahoma City, nobody would have ever suspected that OKC could support an NBA franchise and they never would have stolen our Sonics. Now your own fans don't even bother to show up to your games (in spite of the fact that your team is highly competitive, fun to watch, and has the best point guard alive on its roster) and your low attendance is going to trigger a clause that allows the Hornets to break their lease.

The NBA has assumed control of the team in lieu of the owner's financial inability to continue to run the team. They are "looking for a local buyer" and are "committed to trying to keep the team in New Orleans". Those of use who were Sonics fans have heard those lines before. They were lies then and they are, hopefully, lies now. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has sold $1.4 billion worth of stock and has been very vocal about wanting to bring the NBA back to Seattle (or, more likely, Bellevue where all the rich corporate supporters live).

The other cities in supposed contention as an eventual destination for the Hornets have glaring problems. KC has an NBA-ready arena, but it has about half the population of the Seattle area and nothing even remotely resembling an interested buyer. Anaheim and San Jose have existing teams in their media markets that will do everything in their power to prevent having to share that revenue with a new team, and nothing remotely resembling an interested buyer. You were gifted with a franchise that had every opportunity to be a contender, and you have done nothing to support them. I won't feel the tiniest bit of guilt about stealing your team (which you stole from Charlotte in the first place anyway), and there are approximately 4 million other people who feel the same way I do.

Screw you, New Orleans. I can't wait to see Chris Paul wearing gold and green. I can't wait to see Gary Payton's jersey finally have a chance to be hung from the rafters. I can't wait to see Squatch doing acrobatic trampoline-assisted dunks at halftime. It's as inevitable and undeniable as a hurricane, New Orleans. Your basketball team is going to blow out of town again, and this time it's not coming back.

THE SONICS ARE COMING BACK. LONG LIVE THE SONICS!

[the last yatto]

Coming back to seattle... no

Redmond or renton very likely

[East Coast Hustle]

Not Renton. They'll probably build an arena somewhere in Bellevue or Redmond, though a renovated Key Arena for a couple years is also a possibility.

[LMNO]

New Orleans has a basketball team?

[AFK]

New Orleans has a basketball team?

Yeah, for their first game they had Katrina and the Waves perform at halftime.
























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