but don't you live in Hawaii?
I totally disagree. You can see Dame frustrated at the Olympics. He doesn't like playing second fiddle to anyone. And, at times has found it hard to find his rhythm with Durant controlling the game. Durant has been hot the last two games, but wasn't earlier in the games. And Dame still didn't get that many shots. His defense was poor the other night, but so was a majority of his teammates early. Dame is an Alpha. He might not be get to be that joining another superstar elsewhere.Jake Fischer, who has been on a hot streak this summer, believes there’s still a chance that Dame asks out when he’s done with the Olympics.
Perfect time to bump this.
Fuck you, Olshey!
This post was good on so many levels.
But we have Snell!
Oo, Oo. I know this one. New York, that's where everyone is rumored to go, so they MUST have the friendliest media market.
I think the attitude with The Vulcan Mothership is a small market fan base with one of the big three happy to make the playoffs every year and as long as attendance is good, let it ride. Yeah, they'll try and keep Dame here through his contract and try and appease him, but they wont blink to trade him if he ask and rebuild. Small market team and city that covet their one big pro team.
I agree with the first part. They should have dealt LMA and I was screaming for them to do it.
However I disagree with the second part. I don't think Neil thought this team would make the playoffs that year. In fact, I think he thought we would be one of the worst teams in the league. I think he was counting on a high lotto pick. Dame (and CJ) ruined that
We didn't have any rookies with high upside to play. We started VOnleh most of the season. We had a starting 5 all 25 and younger. Crabbe, Meyers and Harkless at 23, 23 and 22 were our top 3 guys off the bench.
I remember Neil coining the phrase..."retool" instead of rebuild because Dame was that good...he then went out bargain shopping for second year rookies buried on benches with an upside...enter Mo Harkless...etc..he missed big time with Meyers Leonard, TRob and some others but in the end after the Bosnian beast deal...Zach and Nurk get injured and our core never sees the floor...plug and play 19 different starting lineups a season looking for chemistry....it was a few bad signings and a few horribly timed injuries that brought us to where we are today
He's a season ticket holder with an opinion that many people seem to have.
There's no way that there will be an NBA team in Seattle that isn't called the Super Sonics or just Sonics. So it would just be good bye Blazers. That being said, I don't think the team could get the board of governors to sign off on a move. We have an arena that is considered in the top half of the league in quality. We have a lot of history. Most importantly according to forbes we turn a profit. Our income after expenses as a franchise has been over 200M over the last decade and while that is only an average of around 20M a year... that doesn't count that the valuation for the franchise has gone up by over 1.5B during that time. So the team would have a helluva time convincing the league that there's a pressing need to relocate. It's not like Seattle where the team was losing money at the time because it was before the big TV deals, wasn't selling out games and had the worst arena in the league.
From what i gather he lives in Lake O and runs a successful Insurance agency but that is just from his Twitter handle. Who knows really?...he looks like he attends Light of the Spirit church with Pastor Dave Deckard
https://lightofthespirit.church/
The NBA has just put out a lot of statements about wanting specifically the Sonics and the team's history back in Seattle. I don't know if that's an NBA branding thing or more likely because of market research they've done but that's what I've heard out of Adam Silver's mouth and read. So of course they could get a team with a new name but I also have a bunch of family up there and they want their Sonics back.
