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Plus lose the only experienced inside size and tick-off the rest of the rebounders.
Lose one of the top young coaches in the NBA, one of the league's top 6th men and add Bob Hill as your coach.
The Sonics have gone from almost pushing the eventual champs to 7 games despite significant injuries to lotto time. Sad, kinda.
Plus lose the only experienced inside size and tick-off the rest of the rebounders.
The Key Arena lease must be a bear.
It's actually one of the worst in the league, and Stern has even said so. They are going to Seattle for either a new arena or a complete refurbishment of Key, and a better lease. The owner is talking moving if they don't get it.
Sonics were a fraud last year.
They could have kept Antonio Daniels, Nate McMillan, and Jerome James, and still not have been very good this year.
They played over their heads all last season. It's just that Nate McMillan and Antonio Daniels (and Duane Casey) knew that they were frauds, so they got out while their stocks still had some good value.
It's kind of hard to be a fraud over the course of a NBA season. McMillan and AD got out when they couldn't get paid there.
Agreed. They played tough all season and they were a handful for the Spurs...a very physical team (last year not this year).
Antonio Daniels
Jerome James
Evans was a starter
Fortson was a force
Potopenko
Radmonavic was big until he got hurt, then traded
Collison was really the only tough guy tonight for them.
It's pitiful that they don't play Evans.
He led the league in rebounding per 48 and now he only gets playing time if they are in blowout in garbage time.
Also, I don't believe Potapenko or Fortson are hurt -- they are only being DNP'd because they are "out of shape".
They should be moved south to San Jose, Vegas or Oklahoma City. They gave up this year before the season even started.
After reading Stern's comments about next ASG in Vegas, I'm becoming convinced that there won't be an NBA team in Vegas anytime soon. Stern wants them to take the ENTIRE NBA book off of the wall in order to place a team there. They just won't do that. It's worth far too much money to the casinos.
One wonders if they'd been better off spending the $ to keep McMillan, AD and the rest and shipping out/losing Jesus Shuttlesworth. They currently have $80 mil over this and the next 4 seasons committed to him. He's at $13.2 mil this season and that should go up by $1.3 mil or so each season. That's Tim Duncan kind of money. Is having Ray Allen on your team a guarantee that you will make the postseason? No. It looks like they went down the wrong path.
Danny Fortson is a jerk.
Can't stand that pig-tailed panzy.
I'll also add that it's $80 million over 5 years committed to a guard who was 30 years old when he signed that deal.
I don't think they are hurt, either, but I thought they were "pulling a Shaq" and hiding from the Spurs.
thast it.
let's move the Sonics to Oklahoma City.
they've proved they can handle it.
The last roadtrip Bob Hill didn't even let them come on it because they are fat and out of shape.I don't think they are hurt, either, but I thought they were "pulling a Shaq" and hiding from the Spurs.
The Sonics are trying to trade those two, plus Evans (and maybe Flip Murray).
There's reportedly a deal in the works for Potapenko, Evans and Murray for Earl Watson.
Is it your theory that the Sonics "pushing" the Spurs and caused the 7 games series against Detroit ... or did you just forget how to count .... again.
Aren't the Sonics looking to trade Evans?
Excuse me? Did you watch Game 6 of the semifinals?
*sigh*
Last years Western Conference semis were very compe ive. Some of the posters in this thread are mis-informed.
How Nate didn't win coach of the year last year was amazing. He did a masterful job with the Sonics. He had them playing very hard and with a sense of purpose. He made great adjustments after game two and by the time that series was over, it might have been the toughest team the Spurs played in the West.
Now the team is dead.
Just like Larry Brown & The Knicks
15-37
What do you mean???
No betting on NBA games anywhere allowed in Vegas. That's Stern's condition for putting a team there. They will never give up that cash flow.
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