Hold your horses, Sonics fans

[StartOrien]

This was a no brainer:

The people of Sacramento have clearly shown they deserve an NBA team while there are plenty of other cities who have not (indiana, milwaukee, charlotte)

[Smitty77]

And Seattle has NOT shown itself deserving of an NBA team?

[ejk3489]

This is Classic David Stern Politics getting in the way of ethical business decisions. Not only does Seattle get screwed out of a basketball team again, They cannot get a hockey team as well to build the new SODO arena. Somebody needs to root Stern and his cronies out of there and allow for expansion to 32 teams. I am sure that the league can support 32 teams. I am so angry I can spit. I am sure that Seattle bars will not show any NBA basketball for a long time. THIS IS CRAP.

So it's ethical to take away a basketball franchise from a city like Sacramento, who has clearly supported their team no matter what and will do anything they can to keep it?

I'm not saying Seattle fans shouldn't be disappointed, but they were never entitled to the Kings franchise in the first place.

[PaulPierce34G]

The league isn't interested in adding a new team via the expansion route at this current point in time...so somewhere, at some point, a city is going to lose a team in order for Seattle to have basketball again. 

If it won't Sacramento taking the loss, which other city/cities could be a target for Hansen and company? 

[Lucky17]

The league isn't interested in adding a new team via the expansion route at this current point in time...so somewhere, at some point, a city is going to lose a team in order for Seattle to have basketball again. 

If it won't Sacramento taking the loss, which other city/cities could be a target for Hansen and company?

Charlotte is the first that comes to mind.

[D.o.s.]

And Seattle has NOT shown itself deserving of an NBA team?

While there are many, many cultural and technological differences between 2013 and 2006, I think it's pretty clear that Sacramento did exactly what Seattle refused to do when Schultz sold the team to the OKC ownership group. Whether that be the Here We Stay campaign or the development of a competitive arena deal.

Everyone knows that Seattle had their team stolen by Clay Bennett. But not everyone believes that that fact gave them eminent domain over the Kings.

[StartOrien]

And Seattle has NOT shown itself deserving of an NBA team?

Seattle deserves a team, just not Sacramento's.

[Smitty77]

PLEASE DO NOT take my Bobcats:-))  I live about 40 minutes from the arena and it is my ONLY chance to see the Celtics:-)))

MJ is a genius though:-)))  What an idiot!!  You hire Mike Dunlap and he triples your team's wins and you see incredible strides made by Kemba, Bismarck, Kidd-Gilchrist, etc. and then you fire him.  MJ seems to just continue to top himself with his own incompetence going all the way back to the Wizards.  Yet, I am expected to abandon being a Celtic fan for 3 to 4 decades to become a Bobcat disciple:-))))  That is the way people think down here.

Smitty77

[Onslaught]

The league isn't interested in adding a new team via the expansion route at this current point in time...so somewhere, at some point, a city is going to lose a team in order for Seattle to have basketball again. 

If it won't Sacramento taking the loss, which other city/cities could be a target for Hansen and company?

Charlotte is the first that comes to mind.

Hey, stay away from my home team! We want our Hornets name back too.  If only Larry Bird had been accepted as our owner and not Bob and now MJ......

[D.o.s.]

So it's all good as long as it's not your team.

I think we're pretty privileged in that we're fans of a team that is almost certainly never going to be relocated.

[CelticConcourse]

Yeah, I had the feeling it would come down to this.

It's by no means "basically a done deal,"

[CelticConcourse]

And Seattle has NOT shown itself deserving of an NBA team?

Seattle deserves a team, just not Sacramento's.

Milwaukee. hehehe

[Onslaught]

So it's all good as long as it's not your team.

I hate what happened to Sonics fans. But just because they got the shaft won't make it right to shaft another city.

[D.o.s.]

So it's all good as long as it's not your team.

I hate what happened to Sonics fans. But just because they got the shaft won't make it right to shaft another city.

If you check out the rest of my posts in this thread, I think you'll find I agree.

[StartOrien]

And Seattle has NOT shown itself deserving of an NBA team?

Seattle deserves a team, just not Sacramento's.

Milwaukee. hehehe

to me, i think the answer is Indiana. They've had young, exciting and competitive teams over the last ten years and that city still is just supporting them.