Sonics/NHL/New arena thread

[Blitzer88]

http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/story/2 ... cket-drive

 

[Sports Hernia]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ChrisDaniels5/status/570686527791112193[/tweet]

The mayor is open to it, but is the rest of the SCC?

 

[twisted_steel2]

My hope is Murray is throwing this information out there for a reason. Hopefully there are things happening behind the scenes that he knows about, and/or is in involved in.

 

[chris98251]

That's actually pretty cool, NBA is put in a position of they have a tenant there now do we look bad? NHL has a landing spot that will be made official.

 

[Throwdown]

I know I'll probably get shoes thrown at me, but how would the NBA look bad if there is no team to give? They aren't gonna just hand one over, and expansion isn't even an option til Milwaukee is resolved, whether that's the team that ends up here or it's an expansion team after they sort their things out in Milwaukee. NBA has nothing to give us except little shout outs here n there.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

I know I'll probably get shoes thrown at me, but how would the NBA look bad if there is no team to give? They aren't gonna just hand one over, and expansion isn't even an option til Milwaukee is resolved, whether that's the team that ends up here or it's an expansion team after they sort their things out in Milwaukee. NBA has nothing to give us except little shout outs here n there.

The NBA won't look bad, they'll just have one MONSTER leverage chip for all these cities like Milwaukee that have crap arenas to get new arenas built.

You watch, when the EIS is completed you'll see a bunch of NBA and NHL owners start crying for new arenas.

What does this mean for Seattle? Remains to be seen. Both the NBA and NHL will be here eventually, it's just HOW they get here is the question. But if people think once the EIS is passed either league is just going to hand us franchises they're delusional.

 

[Sports Hernia]

I know I'll probably get shoes thrown at me, but how would the NBA look bad if there is no team to give? They aren't gonna just hand one over, and expansion isn't even an option til Milwaukee is resolved, whether that's the team that ends up here or it's an expansion team after they sort their things out in Milwaukee. NBA has nothing to give us except little shout outs here n there.

In my eyes the NBA has looked like pure crap since 2008, they cannot look any worse in my eyes. If a brand new hockey/basketball arena is built and the NHL team is kicking ass interest wise, the NBA would only be costing themselves money by not having a team in one of their biggest markets (pre Clay Clay) in a brand new palace.

I've only been a fairweather Sonics fan anyways, but would like to see the NBA comeback because I like Chris Hansen, and feel bad for the diehard Sonics fans like my brother and nephew.

My big thing on wanting a NBA team here would be to get an arena built for an NHL team. Looks like if it happens it will have to be the other way around.

 

[chris98251]

NBA looks bad because they feel the NHL is a B league, their little brother. They had a chance, they also have admitted several times how great a Market and Fan base this is, Of course after they whisked the Sonics off.

 

[Throwdown]

I know I'll probably get shoes thrown at me, but how would the NBA look bad if there is no team to give? They aren't gonna just hand one over, and expansion isn't even an option til Milwaukee is resolved, whether that's the team that ends up here or it's an expansion team after they sort their things out in Milwaukee. NBA has nothing to give us except little shout outs here n there.

In my eyes the NBA has looked like pure crap since 2008, they cannot look any worse in my eyes. If a brand new hockey/basketball arena is built and the NHL team is kicking ass interest wise, the NBA would only be costing themselves money by not having a team in one of their biggest markets (pre Clay Clay) in a brand new palace.

I've only been a fairweather Sonics fan anyways, but would like to see the NBA comeback because I like Chris Hansen, and feel bad for the diehard Sonics fans like my brother and nephew.

My big thing on wanting a NBA team here would be to get an arena built for an NHL team. Looks like if it happens it will have to be the other way around.

Word, i just want another sport here to try and cling onto honestly. I got no love for the baseball team after their arena opposition and their efforts to mess it up. college sports are cool, but let's be real, it ain't the pros lol. I miss having something between jan/feb and August. It's awful for me.

 

[Sports Hernia]

I know I'll probably get shoes thrown at me, but how would the NBA look bad if there is no team to give? They aren't gonna just hand one over, and expansion isn't even an option til Milwaukee is resolved, whether that's the team that ends up here or it's an expansion team after they sort their things out in Milwaukee. NBA has nothing to give us except little shout outs here n there.

In my eyes the NBA has looked like pure crap since 2008, they cannot look any worse in my eyes. If a brand new hockey/basketball arena is built and the NHL team is kicking ass interest wise, the NBA would only be costing themselves money by not having a team in one of their biggest markets (pre Clay Clay) in a brand new palace.

I've only been a fairweather Sonics fan anyways, but would like to see the NBA comeback because I like Chris Hansen, and feel bad for the diehard Sonics fans like my brother and nephew.

My big thing on wanting a NBA team here would be to get an arena built for an NHL team. Looks like if it happens it will have to be the other way around.

Word, i just want another sport here to try and cling onto honestly. I got no love for the baseball team after their arena opposition and their efforts to mess it up. college sports are cool, but let's be real, it ain't the pros lol. I miss having something between jan/feb and August. It's awful for me.

Totally see where you are coming from. I love baseball, but Howard Lincoln's vocal opposition to the new area torqued me big time.

I've spent exactly $8 on M's tickets over the past 7 years due to Lincoln trying to road block the arena and his unwillingness to spend money on quality players (until lately). The only reason I spent the $8 is because last September the Mariners honored my nephew's LL team (that played in the LL World Series in Williamsport) on the field before a game and I wanted to see the ceremony and support my nephew and his team.

FWIW, I used to go to 20-30 M's games a year.

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

What I don't get is why Portland doesn't have an NHL team? Surely Moda Center can accomodate hockey so the Arena is there already. Both NBA and MLS seem well supported there and you'd have the Oregon market and until NHL comes to Seattle, some of the south Washington populations watching it.

You'd also have a ready made Cascadian rivalry to market with Vancouver until Seattle eventually comes.

 

[grizbob]

Man I love Richard Sherman!!

Yeah it's BR but ya gotta love the message.

http://bleacherreport.com/uninterrupted ... onics-back

 

[Chukarhawk]

From a former Season ticket holder and NBA die hard that has been to literally hundreds of sonics games. The NBA is dead to me. I have zero interest in ever supporting the NBA again. The NBA's best days are behind it.

 

[hieroglyphics]

From a former Season ticket holder and NBA die hard that has been to literally hundreds of sonics games. The NBA is dead to me. I have zero interest in ever supporting the NBA again. The NBA's best days are behind it.

I miss the Sonics as much as anyone else, but the NBA is nearly as good today as it was in the 1990s. The quality on the court is unbelievable now, and many teams are moving back to playing really, really good team basketball (Atlanta and Golden State are case in point) and less reliant on one or two stars carrying a team.

This year in particular is unreal, GS, Houston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Memphis and even San Antonio all have the potential to win it all.

 

[SeatownJay]

Hansen's stadium plan took another small step forward today, setting up a crucial vote on May 2.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new ... odo-arena/

 

[twisted_steel2]

Lets keep it going!!

Something I thought was funny, the Port and the Mariners, who have been fighting savagely to stop the vacating of Occidental...

http://sportspressnw.com/2217680/2016/h ... ical-boost

The Port of Seattle, which has been the most vigorous opponent of the Occidental vacation, claiming that a third sports venue in Sodo would seriously bind freight traffic and cost many jobs, had 32 approved requests from the council for street vacations.

The drop-the-mic moment passed quietly in the chamber, because many of the pro-and-con speakers in the earlier public-comment period had departed. But there was no mistaking that some wind escaped the port’s sails.

And then...

The 32 requests granted don’t reflect on the arguments about Occidental, but they do suggest that the port’s long-held belief that the city has been dismissive of port positions was a tad overwrought.

Another primary opponent, the Mariners, were similarly granted a vacation in 1996 for the same street, Occidental, a little farther north, to make room for Safeco Field.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[twisted_steel2]

The Sonicsgate guys just annihilated Sally Bagshaw. :lol:

http://sonicsgate.com/blog/?p=403

 

[Tical21]

I don't know why, but I've become a lot more pessimistic lately that we'll have a team in the next ten or so years. The NBA isn't going to expand here, period. Which teams are on the possible radar to be moved anytime soon? Maybe Durant leaves, they suck, the fanbase dries up?

 

[Laloosh]

 

[Throwdown]

Mariners new owner still against the arena, I really hate those people.