I'm surprised we don't have a pre-season game up there. I would think Seattle would be excited to have NBA players in the city doing something. It could intrigue a number of Seattle NBA fans and get some of them to follow the Blazers during the rest of the season.
My favorite all time NBA player played for them.. its no rivalry for me. F the whole city and its Traffic, and its smell.
It was cool having a Sonics rivalry, we are tucked away up here in the Northwest. Now we have to fight the east coast non-LA bias on our own. We have to travel farther than any NBA team. We don't really have any rivals anymore; all western teams think the Lakers are their rival. Who knows if Seattle will get an NBA team in the next few decades. LA hasn't had the NFL for 20 years. The NBA has great leverage with Seattle relocation getting NBA owners free taxpayer subsidized arenas.
I have lived in Seattle for over 13 years (far longer than I lived in Portland proper), and I like it. With that being said, I don't know a single NBA fan in Seattle. Everyone who wants the Sonics back is a Sonics fan. I don't think that they'd give two shits about any NBA game being played in Seattle unless it means the Sonics are back. I see a fair number of people with Blazers gear, but I don't think there'd be nearly enough to justify having a preseason game up here. I don't think that I'd go to one (although if I lived where I did a year ago, I'd probably make the four block walk and catch a game). Ed O.
Is that considered the Queen Anne district? I stayed there about a block away from Key Arena when I saw RHCP there last year. Were we like within rock throwing distance of eachother Ed?!?!? :MARIS61::MARIS61:
Just throw rocks at him from where you are now! Exactly. Half of Seattlites opposed subsidizing the NBA, and the rest are just mad at the NBA over stealing the team. Everyone's pissed off. An exhibition game would probably draw rioting demonstrators. They might attract hundreds of thousands to march south on Portland.
