Dear Seattle Fans,
Enjoy the movie. Spoiler alert: We won.
- OKC Fans

Hey Dios,
Seattle has a very high suicide rate, so before you bash other places, look at your own first pal...

tornado! thats funny, too bad thats the only way they know how to move their trailers. sorry, i know thats a sterotype and completely uncalled for. in all honesty, no one from either side of the argument can deny that the okc owners stole a team from a region with a lot of history. i grew up wearing a green and yellow throwback hersey hawkins jersey and my room was adorned in green. i now feel bad for any kid in oklahoma with his room adorned in that hideous blue and orange. those poor children from the worlds most boring flatlands. briansez, i actually just feel bad for you cheering for a team that deep down you have to realize belongs to a different city generations of people that care more than you will. at least you have the sooners football team winning more than a game. also, you have to feel bad for the players moving from one of the most beautiful spots in the world to...okahoma. i dont think you're human if you actually think anyone would want to go from seattle to oklahoma city. watch the movie jackass.

If sonics fans had actually gone to the games, the team wouldn't have moved. They only have themselves to blame. Stop being crybabies, get your gov't to build a new stadium and you'll get a new team.

The quality of life in Oklahoma is irrelevant as is that of Seattle. It's a damn shame that one a$$hat owner (Clay Bennett) and a money first Commish (David Stern) have been able to turn two regions of the country against the other for no good reason.

Jaffe, no one stole the team from Seattle. Clay Bennett bought the team, it belonged to him and he was free to move HIS team wherever he wanted. Perhaps if the citizens of Seattle had persuaded the government to upgrade the arena to an acceptable level (as Stern warned you for years), you would still have an NBA team.

LOL - suicide rate? Oklahoma - home of the obese and illiterate. What's the dropout rate? One of the highest in the nation . . . fantastic.

wow, has it really gotten this bad? i went to the games, picketed the courthouse and at the state senate. are you all really so souless that 7 other commenters at this point and no one blames clay bennett and the fabulously racist/homophobic aubrey mclendon for wanting to take a team with 41 years of history from even before they bought the team. also, as a seattle resident, the move has taken 41 days of the year when every restaurant in the neighborhood was sold out to having none of those days. the effect is pretty obvious because the restaurants had begun to close up even before the economy tanked. also, david stern is so vile he almost makes bud selig seem like an intouch commissioner.

Jaffe, the team was losing money in Seattle for many years because of the outdated arena and bad lease. The city should have helped the Sonics out long before Bennett bought the team.

Seattle deserves another basketball team.. Thanks for the video Skeets.. very good.

no one want to go see a game because supersonics sucked in recent memory...blame the players/ coaches b/c i dont blame the people for not wanting to watch a crappy team lose every season

no one want to go see a game because supersonics sucked in recent memory...blame the players/ coaches b/c i dont blame the people for not wanting to watch a crappy team lose every season

Xavier McDaniel FTW!

The reason that nobody went to the games was the [profane]ty ass management. From 2004-2006 we spent mid first round picks on absolute busts at center. Honestly the only way the picks could have been worse had been if the players actually died. We then proceeded to let our best two players leave. The timing worked out perfectly for Bennett. The only player of value on the team when they left was Kevin Durant and he was only a rookie. I agree that Bennett had the right to move the team and that is fine, but your kidding yourself if you think Oklahoma City will be more profitable than Seattle (in the long run). I just wish he would have manned up and said that he intended to move the team from the beginning instead of putting up bull [profane] about how he was trying to stay and blaming the city. Anyone who doesn't see that Bennett was planning on moving the team all along needs to stop smoking.
Ryan L,
I don't see how Seattle having a higher than average suicide rate makes it a crappy place. The percentage of people that commit suicide is tiny and to use it as a measure of the city is just ignorant...

honestly i've never liked or even appreciated the sonics as a basketball team while they were in seattle. those green and yellow jerseys were absolutely the most hideous jerseys in the nba. i really think, in fact i know, that they're much better off in OKC.
and btw, i'm from NorCal, nowhere near OKC

06-07 Seattle Average Attendance- 26th out of 30 teams with 15,631
08-09 OKC Average Attendance- 11th out of 30 teams with 18,693
we embraced the team you shunned.
You MARKS in Seattle could have been good fans and gone to the f---ing games! I'm positive the thunder will do very poorly in terms of W-L over the next couple years but it doesn't matter to us. We love Jeff Green and KD and Russel and Sefalosha and we go see them and cheer as loud as we can.
I don't appreciate everyone judging Oklahoma City because obviously none of you have ever visited us. My family is originally from the northwest and I've been to Seattle many times so I can honestly say that the city of Seattle has the worst fans and worst people in the United States. --ck you, even Sacramento deserves a team more than you

Im sure if I was a seattle fan id be very happy the way things turned out look at the MLS and the Seattle Sounders FC are doing leading MLS in attendance at over 30,000 a game. Im glad Seattle did not cave and someone stand up to theses bully and David Stern saying you dont build a new arena or improve your current arena we are leaving town and I for one would not wanna be living anywhere near Oklahoma City and im sure a few years there the NBA will wish they were back in Seattle and i hope Seattle tells the NBA to kiss their ass the owner never was gonna keep the team in Seattle anyway even if he got his new arena or improvements to key arena why do you think the former owner got involved saying he was deceived that he'd NEVER sell the team if he knew he would move the team to Oklahoma City and NBA had to settle with the city of Seattle IM glad the Sonics left let them rot in Oklahoma City for all I care and Seattle doesnt care either cause we got our Sounders

"Oklahoma is a squalid hellhole inhabited by ignorant losers"
That's a little harsh. But it is the very "dust bowl" that people fled in droves during the early part of the 20th century.
"I hope you enjoy the next tornado that sweeps through your trailer park."
Funny.
"06-07 Seattle Average Attendance- 26th out of 30 teams with 15,631
08-09 OKC Average Attendance- 11th out of 30 teams with 18,693"
When the novelty wears off, OKC will probably go the way of the Jacksonville Jaguars - the worst attendance in the league. The market's just too small and OKC doesn't have enough corporate season ticket and luxury box holders.
"I don't appreciate everyone judging Oklahoma City because obviously none of you have ever visited us. My family is originally from the northwest and I've been to Seattle many times so I can honestly say that the city of Seattle has the worst fans and worst people in the United States."
Funny on many levels! First, you assume no one would ever want to go to OKC. Probably true. Second, you disparage others for judging OKC then you drop that whopper judgment on Seattle. Last, I think it's safe to say that everyone in Seattle is glad you left.

I lived in the city of Seattle / suburbs for around 6 years from 2001-2006. I was a pretty big Portland Trailblazer fan 1st (cause I lived in Portland before I moved to Seattle), then Seattle Supersonic fan 2nd, and it was really sad-disappointing to watch my 2nd favorite team in the League jump ship from the beautiful city of Seattle, WA to the middle of nowhere on the U.S. map Oklahoma state. I now currently reside in North Texas which is only about an hour away from the Oklahoma border and I think about three hours away from Oklahoma city... I've been to the state of Oklahoma many times.. and if we're comparing city and states in general....then I gotta agree 100% that the city of Seattle and WA state are much better places to live for your average metropolitan type of person. I mean if you like the country side, lots of flat barren lands, and driving like an hour to your nearest grocery store/gas station to buy milk and chips, then yeah the state of Oklahoma is your place to be. Oklahoma City itself may be considered like a regular U.S. metropolitan city, but the surrounding areas in Oklahoma are pretty awful and pretty much what people imagine with rural and flat lands of basically nothing. To say OKC is a more beautiful / nicer / better place to live in than Seattle is just ridiculous....especially since the state of Oklahoma as a whole sucks when you're rating for regular "city life" living conditions.
And "Ryan L", like "The JG" said you can't really measure Seattle's good quality of life or excellent living conditions just because the city itself has a higher than average suicide rate....which if your curious is about 13 per 100,000. But if you wanna bash on people from Seattle for having a higher than average suicide rate, then you can bash on Oklahoma for having a lot of obese, lazy, country folk people who are in general not as highly educated / intelligent as the general population living in Seattle. But we're not here to really personally bash on each other's city and state because nobody has all the personal facts, so let's leave it at that.... Oklahoma does have better casinos than Washington if you're into playing No-Limit poker...I'll give them that. As for the Sonics, I hope you Oklahomans enjoy the Thunder since Clay Bennet really did intend to move them from Seattle to OKC from day 1 of buying the franchise....they are going to be a good team later down the line. Kevin Durant is a beast.
And BTW to all you Oklahoma University students / fans.....Good luck this Saturday at the Red River Rivalry....Cause even tho you have Bradford back my schools going to stomp on your school, but then again OU has already lost two games this season ouch.. so I guess the games not as big as it should've been for OU fans.... Go UT Longhorns

the hornets should have been the team to move to OKC

Benny, you are full of crap. The sports matter, not arenas; an arena doesnt add to or take away from the quality and purity of sports. The focus on arenas has gone a ways towards ruining sports. Also, the owner should be the one and only one to pay for an arena; a team costs more than an arena and if they are able to buy a team they can easily pay the cost of an arena. What the owners are doing nowadays is blackmail, criminal behavior and it no different than what Al Capone used to do. Also, people should stop having a competition between Seattle and Oklahoma City; the people who need to take all the of the blame are the selfish and despicable clay bennett and david stern.

i can hardly stand watching videos of that mavs game, after the game with the pure extasy of the crowd, incrediable, frightengly sad too.

The dirty laundry of Stern and Bennett aired for all to see. What a shady, sleazy deal for Seattle fans after 41 years of support. Clay's gutting of the team and surprise settlement will backfire as Durant and co bolt for better teams after this year leaving Clay and co with the scrubs of the league...