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Oklahoma City is so too gonna get two franchises.
Coinciding with the Seattle Supersonics pe ion to the league regarding the sale, New Orleans Hornets ownership, headed by George Shinn, has applied to the league to permanently stay in Oklahoma City.
The Hornets had previous maintained that they would return to New Orleans as soon as repairs and conditions made it possible.
Oklahoma City is so too gonna get two franchises.
"'Supersonics' is a reference to the World's Fair in Seattle"
huh? Boeing was HQed in Seattle. Remember the never-built Boeing SST?
SuperSonic Transport, the Boeing 2707, that Boeing cancelled in 1971, 4 years after the Seattle SuperSonics joined the NBA in 1967.
Did you read my post? I swear sometimes people can't read.
Added to make clear: the theme of the World's Far in that city was chosen as 'space and aeronautics' because of the burgeoning industry in that city.
Jesus Christ, man, cut me a ing break.
The Sonics are one of the handful of NBA teams with a nickname of historical and regional importance (like the Rockets, Spurs, and Mavs). 'Supersonics' is a reference to the World's Fair in Seattle, I think in 1968, for which the Space Needle was built, as well as one of the world's first monorails. This all centered around Seattle becoming important for the space and aeronautics industries, like Boeing.
Didn't stop the Utah JAZZ from leaving. I guess "Salt Lake City Mormons" was copyrighted or something.
-And 'Grizzlies.' - And 'Lakers,' for that matter...
'Hornets' was actually selected for historical reasons important to NC, too.
You get no break.
Boeing SST, SuperSonic Transport, in full prototype development and talked about in the popular press in the mid/late 60s, was the origin of the Seattle nickname Supersonics. Britain/France were developing their SuperSonicTransport, the Concorde. SuperSonic was hot word back then.
The Seattle Worlds fair did have an aerospace theme, with aerspace monster Boeing based in town, the Apollo program in full flower, and US vs Russia space race in full tilt.
The SuperSonics were named after a plane, not a world's fair.
Don't forget Vegas (after '07 All-Star Game)...since I don't think the Maloof's Kings are going anywhere soon.
If Sonics moves to OKC, will they stay in the northwest division ?
http://www.nba.com/sonics/history/ev...logo_name.html
1967-70
The Seattle-based David Stern Advertising Agency created the first SuperSonics logo. The logo featured a SuperSonic jet ascending from a basketball that displayed the team's name.
Too much rain =environment. Say o to your 2007-2008 Las Vegas Jackpots
Wrong locution, okay? I should have said they were named in conjunction with the contemporaneous World's Fair, with its focus on local industry. Of course it was about the plane. It wasn't the "SuperSonic World's Fair," but those kinds of city-hosted international exhibitions do a huge amount to advertise what those those cities used to do. We don't do them much anymore. You don't think the SuperSonic aircraft advertised itself, do you? Magazines work some, TV worked some, but a huge part of it was inviting all the world's science and cultural journalists in to see what it was all about.
Lame, guy. Really lame.
So you win. You won 1 point in the SuperFun SpursTalk Trivia Experience!!
I can't believe Toronto is still around. But no doubt that is $tern attempting to save face.
Sonics aren't going anywhere.
Well they were sold for $350M.
Who knows how long they'll stay in Seattle. At least this season.
Eh, I think the team is doing well there strangely enough.I can't believe Toronto is still around. But no doubt that is $tern attempting to save face.
Nice arena, good players, and a pretty loyal fan group.
I always watch their afternoon games on saturdays or sundays, and they have huge crowds.
in April they have good crowds when theyve been playing out the streak since December.
I think the Sonics move to St Louis or Las Vegas.
Dave Checketts former Pres of the Knicks and Jazz, is now the owner of the Saavis Center in St Louis, and is upgrading the facilities quite a bit.
Wouldn't surprise me to see the city throw some incentives twords them to go there.
It would be great if they moved there.
Give me something to watch when visitng family in late December early January
Just a sidenote and totally not gonna happen but,
Boeing is pretty heavily influenced in the area, and they could keep the name.
Sorry that makes no sense nor does it mean its gonna happen.
Wishfull thinking on my part
Well it seems like some politics, Shinn pe ioning to stay in OKC the day that the OKC group buys the Sonics is obviously no coincidence. Shinn is probably just putting the pressure on to get out of N.O. permanently and then obviously this new group that bought the Sonics can put the pressure on Seattle government to get a deal done for a new arena, or they'll pull them out of the city in a year (or more).
I could see an NBA team in St. Louis eventually.
In fact I'm surprised that the city rarely comes up when NBA teams talk about relocation. Seems like they'd have a good base of fans there. Maybe they look at the proximity to other NBA franchises? Who knows.
Actually Kansas City not St Louis has been one of the locations noted as a possible move for the Sonics over the last year of discussions. San Jose, KC and OKC.
But I am only a Spurs fan because the Kings forsook KC. That and Grandpa didn't watch basketball.
If I remember correctly from back when the Grizz and Hornets moved, it's an arena problem.
The owner of the Blues owns the arena, and isn't willing to share revenues with a separate ownership group, though he might be open to buying a team and relocating it himself. And since the city is still paying for that arena, there's not much local interest in building another
Basically the deal is that the new owners will keep the team in Seattle and try to negotiate an arena deal. If they can't, they'll move.
The owner of the Blues owns the arena, and isn't willing to share revenues with a separate ownership group, though he might be open to buying a team and relocating it himself. And since the city is still paying for that arena, there's not much local interest in building another
Theyve paid for Saavis, its over 11 years old.
Checketts is the new owner, that was ture previously with the Laurie regime, those heads.
This is making me very nervous! If the Sonics move to OK City, it is very possible that Allen would move the Blazers to Seattle.
Very true. That's been being talked about for months.
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