I have said this before as well, but I really don't think there will be alot of players that really want to play for Clay Bennett either. Durrant will probably leave after his rookie contract and then it's back to square one.
Sounds more like sour grapes on your part. Players that have been to OKC already speak highly of the city and the people. Bennett is no better and/or worse then any other owner in the NBA. Most of their contact with management is with the GM not the owners. As long as they get their pay check don't think it matters much who they work for.
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i highly doubt these numbers are true. probably just the local media trying to hype the team up. 16,000 season tickets already? for a team that will struggle to muster 20 wins? yeah right. they'll be lucky to pull in 2,000 people a game after honeymoon season is over.
The number has actually gone up to 18,000, and that is requests for season ticket info, not tickets sold. Tickets are just going on sale in the next week. We should average at least 18,000+ per home game easy.
Sounds more like sour grapes on your part. Players that have been to OKC already speak highly of the city and the people. Bennett is no better and/or worse then any other owner in the NBA. Most of their contact with management is with the GM not the owners. As long as they get their pay check don't think it matters much who they work for.
a lot of players don't want to work for an owner who's a complete classless ***. durant when he first found out that bennett managed to moved the team almost called him a mother****er right in front of the media. a lot of players grow up watching the nba and respect its history. bennett doesn't have that respect for the game and that just doesn't bode well with some of the players. i'm only slightly more interested in the nba than your casual fan, and I wasn't even a big seattle fan but i felt devastated when they announced the sonics were moving. gary payton/shawn kemp sonics and their rivalry with the bulls were one of my most fond basketball memories of the 90's and they took some of that away. bennett sucks.
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The number has actually gone up to 18,000, and that is requests for season ticket info, not tickets sold. Tickets are just going on sale in the next week. We should average at least 18,000+ per home game easy.
it said request so i never would have been able to tell that it was for ticket info. that would make slightly more sense as i don't see how they would manage to sell that many season tickets in such a short time. they're probably still just trying to hype the team up through the media.
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a lot of players don't want to work for an owner who's a complete classless ***. durant when he first found out that bennett managed to moved the team almost called him a mother****er right in front of the media. a lot of players grow up watching the nba and respect its history. bennett doesn't have that respect for the game and that just doesn't bode well with some of the players. i'm only slightly more interested in the nba than your casual fan, and I wasn't even a big seattle fan but i felt devastated when they announced the sonics were moving. gary payton/shawn kemp sonics and their rivalry with the bulls were one of my most fond basketball memories of the 90's and they took some of that away. bennett sucks.
Actually, the Durant quote was only here say from a guy, that heard from a guy, so I don't think we can take that to serious. No one has ever heard any thing negative from Durant, or been able to come up with a quote from any reliable source. But people from Seattle still seem to be elevating this urban ledgend.
For the most part, former player for the Sonics are the only people that have really said much about it, and Shaq doesn't really count. A few years from now, people from Seattle will be the only people still talking about it at all.
As for Bennett, don't have an opinion on him, other then the fact that he brought an NBA team to OKC. I do think people need to get over it though, it's done. And people can talk about the Schultz case all they want, but that's not going to get them back either.
Things change and it doesn't help to dwell on them, grieve, let it go, and move on. Not gloating, just the facts.
To act like NBA players care that Bennett moved the team is a ridiculous argument. They care if they are getting paid. Let's be real here.
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Actually, the Durant quote was only here say from a guy, that heard from a guy, so I don't think we can take that to serious. No one has ever heard any thing negative from Durant, or been able to come up with a quote from any reliable source. But people from Seattle still seem to be elevating this urban ledgend.
For the most part, former player for the Sonics are the only people that have really said much about it, and Shaq doesn't really count. A few years from now, people from Seattle will be the only people still talking about it at all.
As for Bennett, don't have an opinion on him, other then the fact that he brought an NBA team to OKC. I do think people need to get over it though, it's done. And people can talk about the Schultz case all they want, but that's not going to get them back either.
Things change and it doesn't help to dwell on them, grieve, let it go, and move on. Not gloating, just the facts.
it'll be a sad day when people become indifferent to an nba franchise(one with as rich a history as the sonics) getting uprooted from its city. i suppose most people must be self centered then. i don't even have a team in my hometown but i imagine i would be devastated if my team was forced to move because their owner is a total jerk. i don't think sonics fans will be the only one talking about this in a couple of years. i'm not really a sonics fan, but i certainly would still remember this and would think of this as one of the biggest injustice in sports history. in fact it's things like this that makes me lose faith/interest in the nba. everything's all "business" these days. fans don't mean anything to them except people who they can squeeze money from. i makes me sick.
@hkf: money does talk. people would do almost anything if the money's good. heck most people would probably shoot a dog for 5million dollars but that doesn't mean they won't feel bad about it. these players are professionals who are hired to play basketball, and it would be unprofessional for them to be criticizing their owners/bosses, but I imagine they don't look at bennett with much respect.
as for the incident with durant, wasn't there a recording of it posted on the general forum 2-3 months ago? that's where i heard it anyway. it's not just urban legend because you can find clips of it online.
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Money talks, bull**** runs the marathon. I work in Hollywood, I know this better than most. Bennett and McClendon have the money, they will succeed.
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as for the incident with durant, wasn't there a recording of it posted on the general forum 2-3 months ago? that's where i heard it anyway. it's not just urban legend because you can find clips of it online.
Sorry to tell you the only recording of anything is the interview this guy did on a Seattle radio station, where he said he heard from a friend that heard from someone. Know one has any recording of Durant making any such statement. Again, just hear say.
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