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UPDATED AT 12:01 PDT Monday: Where Were YOU Last Night, Mr. Stern, When the Joint Was Jumpin'?
Apr 14, 2008 | 7:32AM | report this

Don't tell me, let me guess.  Somewhere in a dark room, with sunglasses and ear plugs firmly affixed, so that you could not see or hear what was happening on your satellite TV NBA channel in the city of Seattle.  So that you could not see and hear that your oft touted remarks that the city of Seattle doesn't care are far from the truth.

So that you couldn't see Mark Cuban rise from his seat behind the Mavericks' bench to join in the standing ovation for former Sonics greats Gary Payton and Downtown Freddy Brown, when they were introduced from the stands, sitting in support of the team and the city.

So that you couldn't see this year's likely Rookie of the Year Kevin Durant spurring the near sell out crowd on in their chants of "Save Our Sonics" and "Bennett Sucks" at the end of the game.

So that you couldn't hear Fox Sports Southwest's announcers questioning the sanity of moving a team with a 41 year history from a larger media market to a smaller one (unfortunately, the FSN announcers are on the Sonics' payroll, so they made not mention one of the situation--likely because they were told not to).

So that you couldn't see this:

So that you couldn't read/hear that more than one current Sonics player has followed in WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson's footsteps and said that they may have to go to OKC, but they don't have to stay when their contracts are done. Or how much they are going to miss the fans and the city of Seattle.

So that you didn't have to read what one insensitive OKC resident, seen trolling in a Seattle Times Sonics fan forum, said about the fans of Seattle being so desparate that they would do this as an attempted human sacrifice, in order to implore the basketball gods to keep the team in town.

And so that you didn't have to think, at least for a few hours, about the principals of the Professional Basketball Club, LLC's gaffes in committing their plans to get the team out of town before the good faith period was even one-quarter over to black and white for all to see, thanks to Slade Gorton and his fellow attorneys.

Yes, and so that you didn't have to see and hear the tears and high emotion, both inside Key Arena and in the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii (which are the Sonics primary market now), not to mention those of displaced Sonics fans all over the US and the rest of the world.

What do you have to say for yourself and the NBA,  Mr. Stern?  We would like to hear it.

(In a side note, I personally (and I'm sure many of  my fellow fans) would like to let Mark Cuban and (most likely) Paul Allen, who may be the only two owners to vote against this relocation at the Board of Governors' meeting later this week know just how much your sentiments are appreciated, even if it is mostly for business reasons)).

See what Mr. Stern has to say about this today.  What an #@(%*$*.

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sleeplessinseattle
I am a 50 something health care professional transplanted to Seattle from SoCal in 2001 (and, before you ask, no, I don't want to go back). My tastes in sports are pretty eclectic, but in order of preference, I guess they would be baseball, hockey, basketball, football--col
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