So we didn’t have to wait until 5pm to get the announcement. Chris Daniels broke the story early and Chris Hansen is setting up a priority ticket wait list for the 2013-2014 NBA season to show the NBA how serious we are about getting the NBA back in Seattle.

You’ll be able to sign up for the wait list on Thursday morning at 10am on sonicsarena.com

You can take this however you like, but we finally have a silence break from Chris and company. This doesn’t show this is a done deal, but it does show a little bit of confidence from the Hansen/Ballmer camp.

I’m going to be signing up. No way I’m going to miss out on a chance to get tickets for next year!

Update: Directly sign up here on Thursday morning.

Here is a Sonics-Warriors playoff game from 1992 for those of you who are not ready for today’s NBA. So I’ll throw up one of my all time favorite games.

So in the last thread there was a bit of a discussion of what the new logo, jersey and court is going to look like. There were some nice ideas thrown about and then the idea was brought up of having a contest and the site would vote on the best design.

Ask and ye shall receive. Continue reading →

I was a 4th grader growing up in Sioux Falls, SD. I went to a YMCA basketball camp, and they divided us onto teams and gave our teams NBA team names. I was on the Sonics. I had never heard of the Sonics. Didn’t know they - or Seattle - existed. That spurred me to learn more, and from that grew a love for the Sonics. This was just a few years after the Sonics had won the NBA championship, so to my young eyes, they looked like as good a team as any to follow. Well, them and the Magic led Lakers. Hey, I was a kid, so give me some grace!

I was the only Sonics fan in my High School. I was that guy who owned every Sonics hat and wore one every day. This was before Al Gore invented the internet, so I had to search long and hard to find these hats. Whenever I saw a new one, no matter the price, no matter how broke I was, I bought it, knowing I might not see another one for a long time.

I continued to follow the Sonics from afar in college. I was sitting in a relative’s house in Loveland, Colorado when Dikembe Mutumbo sprawled on the court at the end of the game stabbing me in the heart and crushing the Sonics playoff dreams with an embarrassing loss to an 8 seed. The loss was tough enough, but to be surrounded by Nuggets fans was painful. For years.

I have used a Sonics gym bag every day since 1999 - yes the same bag. My brother gave it to me for Christmas that year. While it is too small to hold all my stuff well, and it is borderline falling apart, I hold onto it, loyally using it anyhow. Continue reading →