Ready for the Return of the Seattle SuperSonics

I for one am actually enjoying the conversation of the last thread. It’s a great group therapy session for me and I think people are bringing up a lot of good, and somewhat subtle points about this VERY strange set of circumstances we find ourselves in.

I want to point out a polite comment with good intentions from the last thread and why in some ways comments like it create a situation where our “respect” for Sacramento has to have some boundaries and our blatant self-interest in getting this done has to be acknowledged.

HaroldKatz states ”How on earth does the Maloofs backing out of an arena deal “fall on” Sacramento? Sacramento kept up its end of the bargain, Stern said as much last year. I think you’re confusing Seattle’s inability to get an arena deal before the team moved to OKC with Sacramento’s situation.” Continue reading →

Please note that this post is intended to reflect my personal feelings on experiences from 2006 - 2008 and not a judgement on the actions of fans of the Sacramento Kings. Continue reading →

If the Kings do indeed relocate to Seattle, it puts the NBA in a bit of a predicament. The current division alignment is already a bit… um… let’s say interesting. Check the map.

Now if the Kings were to move to Seattle, that would essentially put a team in the Pacific division that is located north of a team in the Northwest division. Now that would be a complicated map. The quickest fix would seem to be moving the Sonics back to the Northwest division and moving Utah to the Pacific. Maybe someday they’ll address that Memphis situation, too…