Sonics Try New Personnel and New Ads
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?
