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The Sonics gave up on Rick Brunson, their all-time worst free-agent signing. This offseason, they gave Brunson--who had a foot injury--a guaranteed $1 million contract. Brunson's foot injury never healed. He played four games. You do the math.
Note, this is the organization that wants you the taxpayer to pitch in for their new arena. Please.
And yet we are stupid too! After the Supes traded for Chris Wilcox, we posed this question: "What can Wilcox do that Reggie Evans can't?" We're watching Chris Wilcox right now, and here's just a few:
--Catch a pass above the rim and dunk the ball with one hand.
--Rebound his own miss and dunk the ball with one hand.
--Dunk the ball with one hand.
New Sonic Earl Watson also played in tonight's 114-104 win vs. the NO/OKC/PHD Hornets, and though he started with a Flip Murray-esque two missed shots and a turnover, he redeemed himself with several entertaining through-the-leg passes in the third-quarter. Watson's owed $24 million over the next five years. Thank you, Wally Walker, for landing us the NBA's highest-paid Harlem Globetrotter.
As they debuted new players, the Sonics also debuted a new ad. It features video of three Sonics from the 1979 NBA championship team and suggests a legacy between they and current Sonics.
Like Gus Williams (with about 14,000 career points) to Ray Allen (with about 14,000 career points). And Freddie Brown (who averaged 14 pts. that year) to Rashard Lewis (averaging more than 20 this year). Then it's Jack Sikma (who played seven career All-Star games) to Robert Swift (who has eight career assists). What?
The tagline: "Seattle's Original Team."
The message: We were good twenty-five years ago, so how's about a new arena?
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You're right. A NASCAR track would be much better
Hmmm. Maybe they could build the arena at Gasworks.
In the internet age people who still watch dead tree sports like basketball are tools of a dying paradigm. I'd rather curl up in front of a fireplace with ESPN NBA Basketball on PlayStation than visit any sports arena.
How about--and perhaps this will sound weird coming from someone who lives and dies with sports--spending the money on our outdated transportation infrastructure, or on keeping teachers in the city, and NOT ON A SPORTS ARENA AT ALL????
Safeco--which I love--was a boondoggle. Qwest Field is an absurd use of prime downtown real estate for a facility that's used 10 times a year. We should have played hardball with these teams. San Francisco did, and got a privately-funded stadium that's the most beautiful in the country.
Are we a confident city like S.F.? Or do we so fear "minor-league status" that we'll let pro sports owners extort us as if we were Oklahoma City or Charlotte.
The worse signing ever, Brunson? Man, you have to think a little harder before you write dude, the Sonics are still paying Ibo (who?)
Ibrahim Kutluay had a buyout about this time last year, for last year and THIS year, and that bad signing was just from last year.
Don't make me remember more of them (every team has them, Jerome James' Knick contract for one).
FWIW, the Sonics should sell to somebody that has money, and not leave it in the hands of 50 people with a little bit of money, that was a big mistake. And, the entire "Center" needs an remodel, maybe lease off some of it to pay for remaking the rest? On balance, the city has made money off the arrangement, but they are stick with the debt past 2010.
Well, hate to troll and run, found this page through gooogle while picking up bits for sonicscentral. BTW, Russell was waived, Noel Felix is on his way for another try with the team.