It's not Hansen's first bid to bring an NBA team back to Seattle. O’Neil: A Seattle NBA team needs to be acquired, not poached from Memphis. If you don’t love me at my worst, do you deserve me at my best? Share . Now that the city is constructing New Arena at Seattle Center to host an expansion NHL hockey team in 2021, it’s feasible to think the Sonics could one day call Seattle Center their future home. According to the Seattle Times, a meeting to discuss a potential new arena is slated for May 13 and will include local developers, NAACP executives, community leaders and "potentially" even Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson. That doesn’t mean I have to scour for the first sign of that financial failure and start circling like a vulture waiting for the carnage to stop. Even recent Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Garnett told Tim Reynolds of AP that he would bring a team to Seattle if he could. CrosswordClues.com is a free Crossword Solver tool. The Seattle SuperSonics were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle, Washington.They played in the Western, Pacific and Northwest divisions of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). As Seattle marked construction (or reconstruction?) NBA leaving Seattle was one of sport’s greatest mistakes. The Grizzlies’ paid attendance gives them an exit clause from their lease, but they’re going to use that as leverage to try and extract concessions from the city. Hansen has been trying for several years to get the city to sell him land in the underdeveloped Sodo district for an arena. KeyArena which will play host a still unnamed NHL team, Raptors Superfan Nav Bhatia donates $150K to build Mississauga basketball courts, Local high school basketball team rocks Vancouver Grizzlies-inspired jerseys (PHOTOS), Fred VanVleet on change, fashion, and Raptors challenging for another title. Written for Daily Hive by Nick Hosseinzadeh. That’s good enough, for now. Follow 710 ESPN Seattle’s Danny O’Neil on Twitter. Sign up for our newsletter to get exclusive content, contests, and perks direct to you. Seattle is generally regarded as one of the most likely expansion cities. Beal posted the 24th season in NBA history where someone finished with averages of at least 30 points and six assists — and became the first of those 24 to not make an All-NBA team… He was a first-team pick on all 100 ballots, joining Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo as the only unanimous first-team selections this season. He reached an agreement in early 2013 to buy the Sacramento Kings and move them to Seattle, but that proposed deal was nixed by the NBA Board of Governors in April 2013. https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/omnisport/62/58/sonics-rookie-kevin-durant_1pfsle8ybxqdw17fr2hkcdaszi.jpg?t=1944016570&w=500&quality=80, NBA playoffs 2019: 'I can barely see,' James Harden says of eye injury in Rockets loss, NBA playoffs 2019: Stephen Curry 'is a warrior' (pun intended), Klay Thompson says. Click here for a free subscription. A dispute over a new potential arena was said to be the focal point of the team’s decisision to relocate. 16 reviews of Seattle Storm "Well well well. “Since we left, I’ve been screaming that a team needs to go there, so yeah," Durant said. Calkins also reported that there’s a $29 million surplus that the city has from the bonds used to build the arena so maybe this is a non-starter, and already I’m violating my own rule and trying to figure out what’s going to happen. I would love to be able to do that.". The team, who was owned by Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, was sold to Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett in 2006 and moved to Oklahoma City two years later. It deserves an NBA team more than Vancouver. The city of Seattle has been yearning for the return of its beloved NBA team, the Seattle Supersonics. The Lions have struggled with attendance recently, and the Whitecaps have ebbs and flows. Beal posted the 24th season in NBA history where someone finished with averages of at least 30 points and six assists — and became the first of those 24 to not make an All-NBA team. This article appears in print in the January 2019 issue. Middleton led forwards who didn’t make the team in votes, Embiid did the same for centers and Washington’s Bradley Beal (26 votes) did the same for guards. Seattle’s identity was born with the Supersonics moniker, named after the planned Boeing 2707 developed in the city. NBA Twitter had some ideas of which franchise they’d eliminate to bring back the Sonics. That’s what happened to us, and it stunk. I do think Seattle will get an opportunity at securing an NBA franchise in the near future, perhaps with the economic crisis making the 30 NBA owners more amenable to expansion and the 10-digit fee that would likely entail. After packing up and moving more than half way across the country to Oklahoma City, the city has never been more hungrier for an NBA team. James is a first-team pick for the 13th time in his career, extending his record there. Fans in Vancouver should be content enough to drive down to Seattle to watch the Raptors play the Sonics — they are Canada’s team, right? It’s also possible that the fallout is going to impact the viability of one or more of the existing franchises in their current market. “Every NBA player at this point knows that Seattle needs a basketball team,” Durant said earlier. What are we going to offer our draft picks, a ski pass to Grouse and gift cards to Cactus Club? It still stings in fact, but I also remember Chris Hansen’s attempt to buy the Kings in 2013, and what that turned us into here in Seattle. As soon as the Canucks started missing the playoffs, empty seats did, too.
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