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Originally Posted by pesto
The Seattle demographic looks a bit thin for an NBA team. Three-fourths of the teams are already losing money or break-even (which means losing if accounted for properly) and this looks like another case of a team that will start asking for money or threatening to leave in about 2 years. See, also, Sacramento, Memphis, New Orleans, etc.
Amazon, of course, looks like a winner.
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The Sonics were loved and adored by Seattle until their departure to Oklahoma City in 2007 to become the Thunder. The only reason they lost their team was lack of funding for an arena and a shrewd move by Clay Bennett the recent owner of the team to move them to his hometown. I think the Sonics fans would file right back into a new arena to watch a new incarnation of their team even if many of them have turned their back on the NBA since that fateful day in 2007, while the rest have adopted the Blazers as their NBA team to root for.