The city of Seattle is the latest place to get screwed by an owner with an agenda.
No more SuperSonics ... oh, unless another team magically shows up in a few years. As we've seen in Charlotte, that isn't always a good thing to replace an old franchise with a new one immediately. And cities like Kansas City, San Diego, Vancouver, Cincinnati and Buffalo haven't seen the NBA come back.
It seems that every time something like this happens, it is the team wanting new digs and the city not wanting to pay for it (or know that their consituents will be mad if they make them). Forget that smaller market, crap ... Los Angeles lost two NFL teams in the same year.
I do feel bad for Seattle. I've seen the Charlotte thing up close and this is one of those heart wrenching things a city can have happen. These Sonics have been to the Finals and have a NBA Championship, so their mark has been made.
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Too bad the Sonics left town the way they did. When the New Orleans Jazz left for Salt Lake City and kept the team nickname Jazz I'll bet you that the voodoo priests were placing a curse on that franchise for leaving the Big Easy for Utah because the owner wanted to be near his home in Utah. At least you have the Seattle Storm of the WNBA. Better than nothing.
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