OKC had an arena and a buyer for the Sonics. Seattle had a bunch of moronic politicians, Howard Schultz and the Sonics were playing in front of small crowds.
Worked on the arena, from a big hole in the ground until it was built. Blueprints have large spaces(currently empty rooms) labeled as “NBA locker rooms” both home and away. They absolutely planned on the SuperSonics returning.
I did too bro I worked with cives good company it was mind blowing thinking of all the Sonics games I went to as a kid to that were coming back bro believe it 💪🏽💯
@@ChevyLS1454 When OKC dropped their final game to the Mavs, ending their #1 seeded playoff run, you cared. You know its real as it has bitten OKC multiple times. The curse of the Seattle Supersonics.
I went to a game this season where the CEO spoke to the crowd, “We’re gonna bring the Sonics back to Seattle.” He may have been playing to the crowd a little, but it felt like there was no uncertainty in his voice.
Im a Supersonics fan because of NBA 2k, I'm a Filipino, and i want the Seattle Supersonics back in NBA! Man i want them back so bad, please make it happen Adam
Laker fan here, I was still disappointed that what happened when the Sonics were “moved” to OKC because of an owner who actually want to keep in Seattle but instead, he moved the team to his hometown. I tell you what, I was 4 years old back then when the Sonics are “leaving” Seattle. I just wanna say for those beloved Sonics fans out there, I hope that your beloved team will return to the NBA one day and we were gonna bring back our rivalry during the 1980s and 1990s. If the Cleveland Browns did that when they “moved” to Baltimore and they return in 1999, the Sonics should also do that if the NBA wants to return to Seattle.
I’m 38yo been a Seattle SuperSonics fan since the age of 8, 1993 til Infinity ! I still got my 1998 tickets against the Denver Nuggets, unfortunately we traded Shawn Kemp for Vin Baker, but still got to watch the Glove, Sam Perkins, Detlef, Hawkins, Nate… what an era 🥹
Knicks fan here, Sonics need the team back. NBA, get this franchise back in Seattle. The league is more fun when they're around. I'm glad the NHL gave Seattle Kraken their expansion team and they're doing very well in playoffs as a second year team. TV deal with NBA expires next year and NBC will attempt to bid & bring back NBA on NBC again. You guys are glad to have a caring and wonderful CEO who cares about the Kraken team. Now with Climate Pledge Arena built, Seattle can get the Sonics back. I watched the documentary Sonicsgate a long time ago and I know everything how Clay Bennett betrayed the Sonics and took them to OKC his hometown and NBA wanted the team out of Keyarena for a modern NBA venue and the city government couldnt get funding for it. My older brother grew up watching 90s NBA and had a Shawn Kemp sneaker. Sonics coming back once the rest falls through and NBA expansion in future.
After Sonics return to Seattle and NBC reunite with the NBA than other cities like San Diego, Kansas City, Louisville and Pittsburgh will have a nba team.
@dreamcage1801 Golden Knights Stanley Cup championship in Las Vegas solidified that city with an NBA expansion franchise and Oakland As relocation to Vegas
Sonics are so wanted that even other diehard fans of other teams would want sonics back. Enemies and rivals of Seattle even want the sonics back... It's only right
I can't wait. I can't do capitalizing... yall broke our hearts out here in the south side. PLEASE BRING IT BACK or your not my person. I lasted this long... i dont fell good for the time i have left...
This was the plan before the Sonics left. They wanted a combined facility that would host a hockey team and the Sonics. Then the Renton talk, then they skipped town. So they built a bit backwards but should be coming back as the metrics suggests over a 4 million viewer market.
As a Laker fan we NEED THE SONICS! they can be western conference and Vegas can get a team for Eastern conference. New Orleans Pelicans is western conference maybe they can do some swaps who knows?
I'm a Spurs fan, but its time for the Sonics to return or just NBA team in Seattle in general. Vegas would be great as well, like to see Pittsburgh and Kansas City or St Louis get one as well. Should be a 34 team league.
The logistics of an expansion are pretty complicated when talking about two new teams. As it stands, there are 15 teams each in the West and East with three divisions within those conferences and 5 teams per divisions. Adding two more teams would have to expand each conference into 4 divisions with 4 teams each and that can be a bit tricky. The two most logical locations for expansion are Seattle and Las Vegas, but both are in the West. Should they move Memphis into the Eastern conference? It makes the most sense.
@Why so sleepy@Dream Cage Somewhere else in the first parts of 2023 a comment on you tube mentioned Seattle and Las Vegas with St. Louis as another possible place along with the fantasizing of the commenter for a team (presumably at the KFC Yum arena) in Louisville, except for the fact that Kansas City built their arena in the 2010s (?) decade especially for a potential return of the NBA there, they were looking into having possibly the Orlando Magic (?) move there.
We need NBA Sonics back! Seattle is one of the best cities to have an NBA team. Seattle is also great for events as the city is very clean, nearly drug-free, and very little to no crime.
Enough talk, just make this happen. Yes, Adam Silver I'm talking to you! What hell are you waiting for? Make the damn announcement. You got the arena now. Undo the damage that David Stern and Clay Bennett did (and Howard Schultz too). Those Sonics fans never deserved to see their team move to OKC.
I’ll fund the Seattle Sonics with my Emerald gem and love for family gem.💚💎❤️God bless WA! 🤙🏽 God gave me the power to find the gems in a secret location in WA. Enjoy and thank you for the torture and suffering and mistreatment!! It belongs to you WA! 😉
YOU MIGHT ASK SEATTLE IF THEY CAN DELIVER OUR MAIL FROM THE POST OFFICE BEFORE ANY NBA TEAM SPENDS THE MONEY FROM STOLEN MAIL OF BENEFICIARIES OF WILLS.
Bruh we’ve won the Super Bowl!! Seattle ms soccer team is good and our stadium is good.. why tf does Seattle not have a fucking nba team wtf Seattle a better city then any other city wtf
This will never happen....Silver (AKA Stern's MiniMe) will not ok it. The Owners will vote against it, like they did back in '13. Head of the Expansion committee Clay Bennett (Name sound familiar?) said he would veto ANY Seattle expansion bid....But I could be wrong (I hope I am), and if so for the love of God PLEASE LEAVE WALLY WALKER OUT OF IT!!!
Booo, NBA doesn’t deserve Seattle. Why anyone would want the NBA back. They stole the sonics from Seattle. Why should the NBA be allowed to make money off of Seattle. Don’t let them win.
If I was an NHL or NBA player, I’d never want to play in Seattle long term. Both sports have 9-months long season, you would want to settle down, have your family live with you in the city you play. Can’t imagine any of these athletes willing to settle down in this crap hole.
these dudes are loaded, they live in Bellevue or lake WA areas where they are insulated from the grime of the city...not only that they typically take lavish vacations in the offseason....Seattle is great for no income tax.
@@MastRk sure no income tax but the 2nd highest taxed state in the country. 2nd highest property tax and and excise tax off the charts. All important factors.
@@MastRk Unfortunately those communities are no longer safe. Bellevue and Issaquah is getting target hits, especially with non pursuit laws it's a paradise for the criminals.
Lol good one look at the sharp brain on YOU I know NOBODY has ever thought of that clever witty line before absolutely amazing! Tucker Carlson would be proud
@@BrockMak funny you mention him... he stayed living up here was actually arrested couple months back for a drive by shooting at the Tacoma mall.... not kidding either
@@BrockMak He wanted a trade because the Sonics wouldn't renegotiate his contract after a stellar performance in the 96 Finals vs the Bulls. During that summer the Sonics gave $35 million (~7 years) for an unproven 7 foot shot blocker.
I'm a regular guy who lives in Northwest WA. I go down to Seattle all the time for Kraken games and for events. Very safe city center and downtown, unless you think seeing the occasional panhandler is scary.
I'm a Lakers fan and I would like to see the Sonics back in the NBA. Seattle should never have lost their team to OKC in the first place.
"I got the booze she got the chronic, the lakers beat the supersonics"
Tell that to ok fans
Jesus saves ❤
OKC had an arena and a buyer for the Sonics.
Seattle had a bunch of moronic politicians, Howard Schultz and the Sonics were playing in front of small crowds.
2024🙏🏼🟢🟡
Worked on the arena, from a big hole in the ground until it was built. Blueprints have large spaces(currently empty rooms) labeled as “NBA locker rooms” both home and away. They absolutely planned on the SuperSonics returning.
That was a fun project I was on it too
Wow. That's an Awesome peice of information
😮 thanks for sharing
😃 Wow! Sweet! 💚💛💚
I did too bro I worked with cives good company it was mind blowing thinking of all the Sonics games I went to as a kid to that were coming back bro believe it 💪🏽💯
Once Seattle comes back, those games against the Thunder are gonna be FUCKING LOUD
This rivalry will be so lit
For Seattle maybe but Oklahomans can careless.
@@ChevyLS1454nah that’s like saying Baltimore doesn’t care about browns rivalry, okc still west coast so they’ll play games frequently
@@ChevyLS1454 When OKC dropped their final game to the Mavs, ending their #1 seeded playoff run, you cared. You know its real as it has bitten OKC multiple times. The curse of the Seattle Supersonics.
Not an NHL fan but will support the Kraken for making the return of the NBA in Seattle a possibility.
"Not an NHL Fan???"....The Kraken are killing it in the playoffs. how can you not be a fan?
@@algrundau9441 they might not watch nhl
@@0fficialdregsThey should
@@JHockeyFan agree
Bring the Seattle Supersonics back to the NBA next season
I’d give it 3-5 years personally, but would love to be wrong and see it announced sooner
i will buy season tickets immediately i can’t wait
Not even from Seattle but bring them back baby!! The world is a sucker for a story about wrongs being " righted" 👊🏻
Blacks don’t like hockey because they’re prejudiced
I'm grateful Tom brought hockey to Seattle! I am now a hockey because of the Kraken! I hope the Sonics come back soon.
Why don’t blacks like hockey
I went to a game this season where the CEO spoke to the crowd, “We’re gonna bring the Sonics back to Seattle.” He may have been playing to the crowd a little, but it felt like there was no uncertainty in his voice.
He has openly said he will sell his shares in another NBA team, if we can bring them back and he is fully invested in Seattle
Im a Supersonics fan because of NBA 2k, I'm a Filipino, and i want the Seattle Supersonics back in NBA! Man i want them back so bad, please make it happen Adam
Sonics will be back in the NBA in the 24-25 season after the NBA decides to return to NBC.
NBA is Seattle will be amazing
Which NBA team is moving to Seattle?
@@malcolmpalmer569 I don’t know yet I sure do want Seattle SuperSonics come back
Expansion
@@malcolmpalmer569 Hornets
@@OdditiesOffcialsource?
Let's Goo! Bring back the Sonics!!
It will be the biggest sports comeback in the history of basketball when my Sonics return.
It’ll be the biggest Sports comeback in the History of Sports in General!
Laker fan here, I was still disappointed that what happened when the Sonics were “moved” to OKC because of an owner who actually want to keep in Seattle but instead, he moved the team to his hometown. I tell you what, I was 4 years old back then when the Sonics are “leaving” Seattle. I just wanna say for those beloved Sonics fans out there, I hope that your beloved team will return to the NBA one day and we were gonna bring back our rivalry during the 1980s and 1990s. If the Cleveland Browns did that when they “moved” to Baltimore and they return in 1999, the Sonics should also do that if the NBA wants to return to Seattle.
They loved them so much couldn't build arena for them
Sonics fans. I will be waiting on that beer, kind sir.
(Now, how can I afford season for both the Kraken AND the Sonics?!) 😅
I’m not a fan of any NBA team but when the SuperSonics return I will be a fan Day 1
I would definitely love to work in the Sonics front office when the Sonics return in the future!
I’m 38yo been a Seattle SuperSonics fan since the age of 8, 1993 til Infinity ! I still got my 1998 tickets against the Denver Nuggets, unfortunately we traded Shawn Kemp for Vin Baker, but still got to watch the Glove, Sam Perkins, Detlef, Hawkins, Nate… what an era 🥹
Knicks fan here, Sonics need the team back. NBA, get this franchise back in Seattle. The league is more fun when they're around.
I'm glad the NHL gave Seattle Kraken their expansion team and they're doing very well in playoffs as a second year team. TV deal with NBA expires next year and NBC will attempt to bid & bring back NBA on NBC again.
You guys are glad to have a caring and wonderful CEO who cares about the Kraken team. Now with Climate Pledge Arena built, Seattle can get the Sonics back.
I watched the documentary Sonicsgate a long time ago and I know everything how Clay Bennett betrayed the Sonics and took them to OKC his hometown and NBA wanted the team out of Keyarena for a modern NBA venue and the city government couldnt get funding for it.
My older brother grew up watching 90s NBA and had a Shawn Kemp sneaker. Sonics coming back once the rest falls through and NBA expansion in future.
After Sonics return to Seattle and NBC reunite with the NBA than other cities like San Diego, Kansas City, Louisville and Pittsburgh will have a nba team.
@dreamcage1801 Las Vegas will get an expansion team. NBA likes Nevada and the summer league + in season tournament Semis with finals is in Vegas.
@@Melbester9 oh Vegas fans will be electrified when they get a NBA team.
@dreamcage1801 Golden Knights Stanley Cup championship in Las Vegas solidified that city with an NBA expansion franchise and Oakland As relocation to Vegas
@@Melbester9 don’t forget the Raiders too. NBA team Las Vegas will be on NBC when they become a winning team.
Sonics are so wanted that even other diehard fans of other teams would want sonics back. Enemies and rivals of Seattle even want the sonics back... It's only right
We’ve be hearing this shit for years smh ever since they took the sonics
True but they actually have a functional arena now
I haven't watched basketball since they took my super sonics away so this makes me really excited
It would be nice if the Sonics came back and whipped the Thunder's ass.
Bring Seattle Supersonics back! 🎉😢
I hope so. I always liked the SuperSonics
Sonics was my only fav team in the NBA and they took it from me :( Bring Sonics back!!!
You know KD is going to request a trade and finish his career in Seattle ❤
Loooolll if you think KD is loyal to anyone
I want my Sonics back
I’ll believe it when I see it. There’s been numerous talks about the Sonics coming back and it’s yet to be seen 🤷🏽
BRING BACK THE SONICS !!!
Bring sonics back! I’d love to watch games live and root for them! Payton, Kemp, Hawkins, Shrimp and Perkins! That was an amazing team!
one of the best stadiums in the world
Great to hear.
dude, if the sonics come back i stg ill lose my mind. seattle needs that asap
I can't wait. I can't do capitalizing... yall broke our hearts out here in the south side. PLEASE BRING IT BACK or your not my person.
I lasted this long... i dont fell good for the time i have left...
Seattle gets an NBA franchise and Seattle makes Vancouver, BC, Canada as their NBA G League affiliate.
This was the plan before the Sonics left. They wanted a combined facility that would host a hockey team and the Sonics. Then the Renton talk, then they skipped town. So they built a bit backwards but should be coming back as the metrics suggests over a 4 million viewer market.
As a Laker fan we NEED THE SONICS! they can be western conference and Vegas can get a team for Eastern conference. New Orleans Pelicans is western conference maybe they can do some swaps who knows?
Haven’t watch a full nba game. Since our sonics left. Bring back our Sonics😢
After watching this interview then I would like to see the Seattle Kraken and the future Supersonics expansion team switch names.
He would have to buy the naming rights and history of the Sonics back from Oklahoma.
I'm a Spurs fan, but its time for the Sonics to return or just NBA team in Seattle in general. Vegas would be great as well, like to see Pittsburgh and Kansas City or St Louis get one as well. Should be a 34 team league.
The logistics of an expansion are pretty complicated when talking about two new teams. As it stands, there are 15 teams each in the West and East with three divisions within those conferences and 5 teams per divisions. Adding two more teams would have to expand each conference into 4 divisions with 4 teams each and that can be a bit tricky. The two most logical locations for expansion are Seattle and Las Vegas, but both are in the West. Should they move Memphis into the Eastern conference? It makes the most sense.
Seattle deserves an NBA team again , bring back the SuperSonics, green and white jerseys
Gary Patton as Sonics president please!!!
FEEL BAD FOR TALL HE KIDS WHO MISSED OUT ON THE SONICS
Silver wants to add more teams one in Seattle and other in Las Vegas. 2 others on the east coast.
2 east coast team will probably be Kansas City and Montreal
@Why so sleepy@Dream Cage Somewhere else in the first parts of 2023 a comment on you tube mentioned Seattle and Las Vegas with St. Louis as another possible place along with the fantasizing of the commenter for a team (presumably at the KFC Yum arena) in Louisville, except for the fact that Kansas City built their arena in the 2010s (?) decade especially for a potential return of the NBA there, they were looking into having possibly the Orlando Magic (?) move there.
@@gregpaspatis9425 oh don’t forget Mexico City is mentioned too
@@dreamcage1801 Kansas City on the East Coast? Bro what?
@@chaimdb8 yes it is look it up yourself bub
Key arena may be owned to Seattle Storm in WNBA. But many still want the Sonics back in the NBA and no longer in OKC
Then build arena and stop being cheap
Bring back the Sonics!
We need NBA Sonics back! Seattle is one of the best cities to have an NBA team. Seattle is also great for events as the city is very clean, nearly drug-free, and very little to no crime.
LMAO!!! That is by far the most incorrect statement I’ve ever seen. I mean Jesus, you’re wrong on every single point.
@@justinland1208 ever heard of sarcasm 😂😂
LEAVE STARBUCKS OFF THE SPONSER LIST FOREVER!
Still ticks me that it's a Kraken sponsor. Go with Seattle's Best or whatever other brand.
When the Sonics come back the city will explode if your an outsider who thinks The city is insane about the Hawks just wait 😂
Goodness, this guy could run for president AND wun.
Enough talk, just make this happen. Yes, Adam Silver I'm talking to you! What hell are you waiting for? Make the damn announcement. You got the arena now.
Undo the damage that David Stern and Clay Bennett did (and Howard Schultz too). Those Sonics fans never deserved to see their team move to OKC.
Sonics have been gone longer then the Winnipeg keys we’re it’s time to bring them back
I have not watched the NBA since the Sonics were stolen from us and won't until they're home...
Shit on nba
They shit on us.
Don't want them back.
Some of us may never again!
@@PapaT79 And with what the NBA has now become, I can't say I'd miss it if I never watched again
@@Aussie1276 exactly
“It’s going to get fixed”
It won’t come cheap…
I look forward to the day the Sonics return and the day they play OKC! It will be payback time and I hope the new Sonics tear the them up good!
I’ll fund the Seattle Sonics with my Emerald gem and love for family gem.💚💎❤️God bless WA! 🤙🏽 God gave me the power to find the gems in a secret location in WA. Enjoy and thank you for the torture and suffering and mistreatment!! It belongs to you WA! 😉
Move the Grizzlies to Vegas and Move Pelicans to Seattle
YOU MIGHT ASK SEATTLE IF THEY CAN DELIVER OUR MAIL FROM THE POST OFFICE BEFORE ANY NBA TEAM SPENDS THE MONEY FROM STOLEN MAIL OF BENEFICIARIES OF WILLS.
As a Houston Rockets fan I want the Sonics back. ASAP. We need something to hate on besides the Utah Jazz.
A lot of talking I heard that many times before.
appropriately rename seattle super needles 💉
💀💀💀💀
Bruh we’ve won the Super Bowl!! Seattle ms soccer team is good and our stadium is good.. why tf does Seattle not have a fucking nba team wtf Seattle a better city then any other city wtf
This will never happen....Silver (AKA Stern's MiniMe) will not ok it. The Owners will vote against it, like they did back in '13. Head of the Expansion committee Clay Bennett (Name sound familiar?) said he would veto ANY Seattle expansion bid....But I could be wrong (I hope I am), and if so for the love of God PLEASE LEAVE WALLY WALKER OUT OF IT!!!
Expand to Seattle and Vancouver!
Seattle doesn’t hold the sonic names rights OKC still does
Booo, NBA doesn’t deserve Seattle. Why anyone would want the NBA back. They stole the sonics from Seattle. Why should the NBA be allowed to make money off of Seattle. Don’t let them win.
Maybe you should just be thankfull that you have the kraken.
If im Seattle, i don't even want the NBA back.
If I was an NHL or NBA player, I’d never want to play in Seattle long term. Both sports have 9-months long season, you would want to settle down, have your family live with you in the city you play. Can’t imagine any of these athletes willing to settle down in this crap hole.
these dudes are loaded, they live in Bellevue or lake WA areas where they are insulated from the grime of the city...not only that they typically take lavish vacations in the offseason....Seattle is great for no income tax.
@@MastRk sure no income tax but the 2nd highest taxed state in the country. 2nd highest property tax and and excise tax off the charts. All important factors.
If I was a nba player I’d definitely want to play for the Sonics
@@MastRk Unfortunately those communities are no longer safe. Bellevue and Issaquah is getting target hits, especially with non pursuit laws it's a paradise for the criminals.
@@AbsoluteADCC gun laws
Idk, basketball nowadays kind of sucks. But, bring it back with a different name. Sonics is a dumb name.
What a stupid idea. It's the Supersonics, based on Seattle's aviation history, and the name has basically history behind it...
@@Kevin-it4fh still a dumb name. Fk the history. Come up with something fun.
@@Kevin-it4fh absolutely….SuperSonics and color is green, Gold yellow and white
Climate Pledge Arena ? should be called : Snowflake Woke Arena ! that fit`s the cities label around the country / around the world ...
Lol good one look at the sharp brain on YOU I know NOBODY has ever thought of that clever witty line before absolutely amazing! Tucker Carlson would be proud
"Snowflakes?"....Have you seen the Kraken play? they are fucking savages...hahaha....I dare you to call one a Snowflake.
Yeah, we should be really ashamed of building a climate-neutral effort by year one. How callous of Seattle.
What a comment lol. I can tell you think Gutteld is peak comedy....
Let Oklahoma keep them we aren't basketball state..... rains too much here.... we are ok with Portland blazers
I grew up believing it was one of the top reasons that Shawn Kemp wanted to leave, wasn't it?
@@BrockMak funny you mention him... he stayed living up here was actually arrested couple months back for a drive by shooting at the Tacoma mall.... not kidding either
@@BrockMak He wanted a trade because the Sonics wouldn't renegotiate his contract after a stellar performance in the 96 Finals vs the Bulls. During that summer the Sonics gave $35 million (~7 years) for an unproven 7 foot shot blocker.
@@bball3048mm Sonics should have gave Kemp his money
@@bball3048mm Jim Mcilvaine. I used him a bit on NBA Jam for exactly his shotblocking if nothing else.
Build a arena in Bellevue. Not in Seattle. It is too dangerous Seattle
State of Washington won’t let it happen
Bellevue won’t let it happen 😂
Would be a huge waste of money
I'm a regular guy who lives in Northwest WA. I go down to Seattle all the time for Kraken games and for events. Very safe city center and downtown, unless you think seeing the occasional panhandler is scary.
I remember you Seattle clowns were wanting the Sacramento Kings to move to Seattle. Be glad you have a good hockey team.