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re: OKC is not a good place for a NBA team
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:33 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:33 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Minneapolis though pretty white was home to Prince
this is very important to professional athletes.
oh prince lives there? im going!
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Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:33 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Seattle is a great city and it was the only winter sport in town.
Um football?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:34 pm to LSUJuicer
I loved the Sonics. GP and Kemp was great. Throw in Detlef, Nate, Gill, Pierce....the mid 90's Sonics were bad arse.
This post was edited on 7/4/16 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:38 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
It is a shitty cowtown.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:40 pm to Scoop
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Seattle has a population the same as OKC but OKC is not nearly as affluent
the population is not close to the same. Unless you're talking about the city proper, which is a silly comparison
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:41 pm to NIH
And when pop dies, they'll go back to being an afterthought.
For markets like SA and OKC, it takes a tremendous amount of luck to win titles (like having a transcendent coach/GM or the greatest player of all time born 30 min away feeling like he owes your shite town something)... The players hold all the power, and they're gonna go where exposure and a chance to win are highest.
For markets like SA and OKC, it takes a tremendous amount of luck to win titles (like having a transcendent coach/GM or the greatest player of all time born 30 min away feeling like he owes your shite town something)... The players hold all the power, and they're gonna go where exposure and a chance to win are highest.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 6:46 pm to lowspark12
After Westbrook leaves there's nothing to build on unless they can get lotto picks and sing players to long-term deals.
San Antonio is a better city than OKC though I do agree they got lucky with Popovich and Duncan and Robinson liking the city. But I would place more money on San Antonio having long-term success over OKC.
When Pop retires it will be interesting to see what happens to SA.
But the Sonics leaving was a tragedy. As bad any franchise move in recent history.
San Antonio is a better city than OKC though I do agree they got lucky with Popovich and Duncan and Robinson liking the city. But I would place more money on San Antonio having long-term success over OKC.
When Pop retires it will be interesting to see what happens to SA.
But the Sonics leaving was a tragedy. As bad any franchise move in recent history.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:00 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
Care to elaborate on why the Knicks have a winning culture then?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:04 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Cleveland is a better city than Oklahoma City.
Let's not get carried away
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:05 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
What makes Oklahoma City any worse than places like Memphis and New Orleans?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:22 pm to Bench McElroy
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What makes Oklahoma City any worse than places like Memphis and New Orleans?
What is there tourism wise in OKC?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:26 pm to Jones
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this is very important to professional athletes.
oh prince lives there? im going!
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:35 pm to stout
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What is there tourism wise in OKC?
They have a knockoff version of the Riverwalk and a Native American museum.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:46 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Yea I see travel agents boasting constantly about each of those attractions and the amount of people knocking down their doors to go to OKC for them.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:47 pm to LSUJuicer
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Took out team now enjoy sucking until some other Oklahoma product becomes a big NBA player. Nobody wants to play there!
Kind of like how the fans of Seattle didn't even want to watch the team.
"Nobody wants to play there!" That's what the players said about Key Arena
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:55 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
STL would make sense but they get paid the same for not having a team, so why bother?
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:56 pm to Asgard Device
Oh and a lot of the moves that happen are all about extorting state and local governments and sometimes punishing them just to send a message to others. It's pathetic, really.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:56 pm to OKtiger
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Kind of like how the fans of Seattle didn't even want to watch the team.
Attendance was just fine until the last year after it was already announced that they were leaving
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:56 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
OP getting downvoted is predictable but the OP is right.
OKC isn't good for anything, let alone an NBA team. LOUD CITY will fade into Bolivia, to quote Mike Tyson, soon enough.
OKC isn't good for anything, let alone an NBA team. LOUD CITY will fade into Bolivia, to quote Mike Tyson, soon enough.
Posted on 7/4/16 at 7:58 pm to Bench McElroy
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What makes Oklahoma City any worse than places like Memphis and New Orleans?
You're either an idiot or a troll.
People travel to Memphis and New Orleans.
Memphis has an actual basketball tradition and both places certainly fit demographically.
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