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Originally Posted by Chan
Every team has it bad, Rawse. Some worse. Try watching your team trying to make the playoffs with no hope of title contention, and end up with a middle of the road pick for 3 out of the last 4 years. The playoff year was a feel-good story that lasted 2 weeks, and we knew it was everybody's contract year.
Watch your team try to make the playoffs, with no chance of winning, and all the while realizing the best young potential you have on your team is Luke Ridnour. Nobody develops. And at the end of the year, you hope all this bull**** you sat through last season would wash over. Then the GM picks Robert Swift, or Saer Sene. Another rookie that you won't get to see play.
At least Boston and Memphis have young talent to develop, so there is actually a point to playing basketball. In Seattle, it's the same group of vets for 3 years that are proven to be mediocre, play with mediocre effort, and end up with a mediocre record. This #2 pick is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Memphis will get theirs soon enough. For now, you have Gay and Lowry.
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Seattle's had a rough patch over the last five years, but at the end of the day, when you watch those 30-52 teams, you still can look up and see a championship banner. You can still probably faintly remember Payton and Kemp taking on Jordan's Bulls in the Finals. A playoff series win is still fresh in your memory. Hall-of-Fame players. All-Star players. Retired jerseys. Division championships. And now Kevin Durant.
Memphis has none of that, never has had anything even resembling that, and there doesn't seem to be any hope on the horizon. We've only had seasons where we've won more than 28 games. I hope we get ours, but as history has dictated, whenever the franchise gets an opportunity, it flushes it or gets plain unlucky. No team in the league has as pathetic a resume as Memphis.
Seattle's ownership situation has been on par or even worse than Memphis', where we have a lame duck owner, a lame duck GM and no head coach since December. And a lame duck franchise player. I hope Durant is enough to keep the Sonics in Seattle...I can't see myself calling them anything else.
But right now, I'm at a point where I have to ask myself - if I didn't live in Memphis, a choice that initially wasn't mine, would I care at all about this team? Would I support them or would I pity them/laugh at them like the rest of the league's fans? I have to say the second one.
This franchise might as well be on the end of a keychain. It's a joke.