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Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp headline a charity game between the NBA & Former Globetrotter All-Stars and the Anchorage Police Department Search Team All-Stars at 5 p.m. at West High. [12/16/2012]
exhibition basketball
Payton, Kemp playing hoops at West tonight
Basketball fans can’t watch the Seattle SuperSonics anymore, but they will have a chance to see some big names from the former NBA team in action Sunday.
Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp headline a charity game between the NBA & Former Globetrotter All-Stars and the Anchorage Police Department Search Team All-Stars at 5 p.m. at West High.
Former Harlem Globetrotters legend Otis Key will team with Payton and Kemp in the benefit for the APD auxiliary search team volunteers. Tickets are available in advance for $15 at local Tesoro stations, Kaladi Bros. Coffee shops and Blockbuster Video stores and at the gate for $20.
Members of the Alaska 49ers semipro team will also play.
Payton, nicknamed “The Glove,” played 13 years of his 17-year NBA career with the SuperSonics, a franchise that left Seattle to become the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
Payton, who becomes eligible for the NBA Hall of Fame in 2013, teamed with Kemp to help make the Sonics a force in the 1990s. After reaching the Western Conference Finals at the end of the 1992-93 season, Seattle posted the best record (63-19) in the NBA during the 1993-94 season.
Payton and Kemp helped guide Seattle to the NBA Finals in 1996, eventually losing to a Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls team in six games.
Payton was an all-star nine times with the Sonics before leaving the team in 2003. He finished his NBA career with Milwaukee, Boston and Miami, averaging 16.3 points, 6.7 assists and 1.8 steals for his career.
Kemp, a six-time all-star who played with Seattle from 1990-97, averaged 14.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in an NBA career that included stints with Cleveland, Portland and Orlando.
Alaska sports digest for Dec. 15
Hahahaha, Arena/Team news is very slow right now! Gotta roll with it.
So? How’d they do?
so who thinks chuck and howard wrote this article? i’m so sick of hearing those two idiots’ names…
http://seattletimes.com/html/take2/2019877974_taketwo17.html
is this a joke? this is a joke right. i can’t tell if I’m getting punked or not.
“Chuck Armstrong gives 110 percent every day. He and his family have made huge sacrifices as they have helped build this franchise. With his leadership, our community can now enjoy one of the crown jewels of Major League Baseball, Safeco Field (which was paid for several years early, by the way).”
Yes, it takes a true genius and incredible talent to avoid making the playoffs for 11, (and most likely now 12 seasons). That is so difficult to accomplish and well done, chuck. absolutely applaud you. Additionally, chuck’s leadership received help in building safeco field with - wait for it - public effin’ money! look it up, a$$-clown. god damn hypocrites. go eat a bagfull of D’s, mariners. you are such a god forsaken joke.
“Chuck Armstrong is one of the most honest men I have ever known. His integrity is unquestionable. He is loyal to a fault. He cares more than any of you will ever know.”
This sums up what has actually been a detriment to the Ms. Their undying loyalty. Im not saying loyalty is a bad thing. But when it is the reason a team makes certain decisions then its going to hurt us.
I love Ken Griffey Jr. But the way he went out was a disaster. Bringing him back the second year was all due to loyalty. Im positive they would have resigned Ichiro too.
Nobody doubts Chuck Armstrong is a nice guy. But under this leadership he can have a job for life based on 4 good years? In real life situations people are expected to perform well every year. Its almost like if you had any part of the “good years” you are grandfathered in. You dont have to play good anymore. You are covered.
What have you done lately? Its time to clean house.
who is everyone pulling for in the mayoral race?
Long time supporter in the legislature, Ed Murray. Try as he might, and he got freakishly close, there were a few votes short.
Tim Burgess did a lot of work to get this arena solution to happen.
I’d vote for either.
I haven’t come across an open “no” vote on the arena yet, other than Peter Steinbrueck.
Looks like Steinbruk’s officially running for Mayor.
Does McGinn even make it out of the primary? The crowded field is the only thing that might keep him afloat.
His first term has been roughly analogous to the 2012 New York Jets season: A stumbling, bumbling trainwreck punctuated by the occasional chest-beating squawk, followed by a profound and unrecoverable b*tch-slapping about midway through, then a long, slow decline into irrelevance.
No, I’ve been predicting that for almost a year, he’s 3rd.
Murray and Burgess are 1 and 2.
Murray is racking up the money.
Here is how I broke it out in November.
http://manywordsforrain.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-seattle-times-mcginn-missteps.html?m=0
How bout stick with McGinn the only mayor to really stand behind and make progress on an Arena Proposal in a long time!
You will find that part of his coalition was made up with many of the Anti-arena types, lesser Seattle (Amazzon tower haters), then the fixi bike lane folks.
If he pulls 30% out of that then I’d be impressed.
His approach to opposing the tunnel, not just his opposition, turned off plenty of people very early. He’s not getting any of those folks.
Burgess will ride the SPD reformist theme against him.
Ed Murray is just a superior political leader.
Another Greenwood community activist entered the race yesterday, a McGinn antagonist. She has no shot at winning but she could do some damage to McGinn, exposing him as a self promoting gasbag (not that I haven’t ever met a politician that wasn’t to some degree).
Great Points Mr. Baker, at this point as long as nothing stops the arena being built I could care less if Elmer Fudd is the mayor of Seattle. Oh wait, Nickels already was mayor!!
McGinn is probably done, but we owe him a huge debt of gratitude. He put together a deal that made it past the smell test and that was so good that the councils were FORCED to give serious consideration to.
I’m grateful that Burgess got it done after that, but the only reason we don’t think of him as a villain right now is that Chris Hansen REALLY wanted to get this done for us. Burgess was a no vote that looked a gift horse in the mouth and got what he wanted.
Burgess set himself up to potentially be a huge villian. Unless it was all part of the game and would have eventually have conceded some demands. Thankfully it never got that far though…..
yeah but I think we’d all prefer the new mayor have no plans to even try and overturn the arena. I don’t think Steinbrueck has a chance of winning, yet alone repealing the arena, but he needs to be stopped from getting to the general. if the Port is his only significant backer, I’m not too worried. they couldn’t even get enough signatures to force a public vote. the 28 day deadline has come and gone, hasn’t it?
I wouldn’t underestimate Steinbrueck and agree he needs to be quashed in the primary. He has name recognition and familiarity amongst the mouthbreather Times board/ILWU/Lesser Seattle crowd and in a tight race that will help.
Last time around this city elected a completely unqualified bumbling dufus in McGinn, and he ran on a one-trick pony platform. Nothing is safe with this electorate. I’ve already seen the ILWU/Max Vecich disinformation campaign against McGinn start:
https://twitter.com/IS3B/status/280782745158971394/photo/1
Is that the best Vecich can come up with? He might as well be sticking those leaflets on a bathroom wall somewhere.
VB continues to perculate…
http://www.news10.net/video/1995609176001/1/Maloofs-negotiate-with-Virginia-Beach-to-possibly-move-Kings
I was listening to KHTK on my drive home tonight ( I live in the Bay Area) and Grant Naper said to his knowledge there are no new negotiation between the Maloofs and the City of Sac going on. Fans are really frustrated by the whole sitiation both on and off the court. Grant also said to the best of his knowledge 5 city’s have made contact with the Maloofs including Seattle. The fans want to know why the Maloofs are not commenting, Grant said because they have nothing to say other than their standard response of no comment on rumors.
VB may be negotiating but not sure how a deal gets done given there issues on funding. I guess we will know more in the next 60 days as we move closer to the All Star game and the relocation deadline,
Glad thing are moving along in Seattle, I can’t wait for the Sonics to return and visiting the new Arena.
more vb rhetoric. Indeed the next 60 days will be interesting well if the world doesnt end tommorrow lol.
http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/va_beach/Arena-could-bring-more-than-NBA-team
From the Sacramento Bee:
“Waiting for the Maloofs – It’s been four days since we invited Joe and Gavin Maloof to participate in a “live chat” on sacbee.com, and we’re still waiting for an answer from the Kings owners. Stay tuned.”
I really think VB is the Maloof’s Hail Mary pass. A LOT has to go right for it to be caught in the end zone. The problem is they are more like a Sanchez/Tebow combo and NOT Doug Flutie.
Wonder what the NBA thinks about VB? If VB is going to give the Maloof’s a free arena will the NBA stand in the way? They like arena’s with Public funding.
Va. Beach residents weigh in on proposed arena plan
http://bit.ly/Ubr2Tm
well if comcast and va beach are paying for the entire thing the maloofs would presumably be a tenant in that situation. if comcst and the city/state are investing in the arena, they (esecially comcast) would want a return on their investment and may demand most operational revenues from the arena. how does this put the maloof’s in a better position to be profitable? seems like comcast gets the best end of this deal unless i’m looking at it the wrong way
That is a good point. Hopefully that will be a big deal because I am sure the Maloofs would want some of the pie to pay for player etc.
I’m still not seeing where VB gets the money to get this off the ground because the State already said they weren’t kicking any in. And also not seeing where the Maloofs would get the $ to pay for a relocation fee and pay off their debt to Sacramento and the rest of their creditors, provided the NBA would even let them move.
I sense the league wants to be rid of the Maloofs. Best way is to say no to VB?
Or make the Maloofs sweat it out
My T Wolves beat the Thunder!
thank you very much for that!! i watched the replay on the tv at oskar’s. looked like a great game. FOKC!
So…anyone who was able to make it to Shawn’s party at Oskar’s last night…how did it go? I wanted to go but committed to go to a birthday party before I knew about Shawn’s par-tay. I’m sure it was a blast!
It was great. It was really nice to get together and see some folks I don’t get to see often enough. A fabulously talented, fun and diverse group. Thanks again to Shawn for hosting and Brian for putting the whole thing together.
I found this article about the NHL lock out from Time Magazine which gave a nice breakdown of the whole situation. There are two parts that are pretty interesting the valuation of franchises and the case made for relocating teams out of the sun belt area to the north.
http://ti.me/Vgq1oE
I know it isn’t Sonics related, but it seems like it could be making the case to move sun belt teams to places like Seattle and Quebec City.
In other Sonics related news.
It seems like Mikael Gelabale tries to make an NBA comeback.
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/225139/Mickael_Gelabale_Reaches_Out_To_NBA_Teams_For_Potential_Return
He was an alright rotational player that showed some flashes here and there but I doubt any team will bite on a nearly 30 year old guy that hasn’t done all that much during his time in the league.