5 reasons to become an Oklahoma City Thunder fan

[Darrin]

Until Durant becomes a free agent and wants to go to the Lakers

He signed a contract extension in the 2010 offseason.

[ezau]

You can't even compare the two. KD signed a longer extension than Lebron and he already has more help than Lebron did, so he won't have a reason to leave OKC when his contract runs out.

OKC is an up and coming team, whereas the Suns...let's leave it at that

[bandwagon_fan]

Durant to the Lakers would be perfect.

[Kevin Durant 35]

Durant to the Lakers would be perfect.

Keep dreaming

[peteee]

Durant to the Lakers would be perfect.

Durant to Cheat for either Lebron or D-Whistle, that would be a done deal.

[Leonard Curse]

love durant!!! hes got the spurs gene, and im really happy to see a younger dude show that type of character while all these losers whine about their teams. unless my team is owned by mark cuban i will never have a second team !! so kiss my ass hahahah im joking yall are bad ass

[spursncowboys]

Until Durant becomes a free agent and wants to go to the Lakers

I think he likes all the sooners rooting for him. i could see him going to the mavs or spurs to be closer to UT

[Findog]

That's something I don't really fault Seattle fans for, that arena was such a dump I don't even think homeless people found it worthwhile to dig through their trash cans.

Actually, I've been to Key Arena (not for a basketball game though). It's a very nice facility in the Seattle Center complex next to the Space Needle. It's small by NBA standards and thus doesn't have the floor space for all of the bull that Stern and the owners want nowadays, like a restaurant or a bar. The ironic thing is that they renovated it in 1996 with an emphasis on making it a great place to watch a basketball game. The seating capacity is 17,000 but the seats are very close to the floor, so you have great sight lines for watching and it gets very loud in there.

Stern and Schultz wanted to expand the seating capacity and put in all of the ancillary crap that NBA arenas have now, but there isn't really room to expand it. If the powers that be in Seattle ever build another arena, it won't be at the Seattle Center.

[Findog]

Seattle wasn't even selling out consistently for years. OKC at least has got them beat there...even though it's because there's absolutely nothing else to do in OKC. Still.

The did pretty well attendance-wise considering the Sonics were terrible the last 8-10 years of the franchise's existence. They had higher attendance in the final lame duck year of 2008 when everybody knew they were out the door than the Bucks and Bobcats did this season putting out a playoff-caliber quality product for their fans.