The Sonics Move
by edwzipper on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 07:59am
Off to Oklahoma, where the wind sweeps and all that, fucking over yet another city that had committed to caring about the games grown men play. Art Thiel and Jim Moore in the Seattle PI feel for the fans. As is always the case when this happens, we all do.
As near as I can tell, David Stern played a massive part in bending Seattle over a table and helping Clay Bennett have his way with it. Which led to a question in the Swamp asking why that isn’t a bigger national story.
I reprint here verbatim a spot on answer to that question from Swamp denizen JoeK715:
“Because ESPN basically controls the sports news agenda right now. And there’s probably a clause in their TV contract for NBA games that doesn’t allow them to cover this story. Honestly, there is no way to present the facts about the Sonics leaving Seattle without making David Stern look like a large, seeping bag of shit.”
Makes really good sense. Not much else to say.