This has been your biggest and it really bore fruit. You did a good job combining all the pieces together. More than anything, it really is a civic duty to bring back the Sonics. In some weird way, it became threaded into the state's identity, which is why the farmer who the journalist talked about when he reported of the flooding mentioning the Sonics in between his main interest (agriculture news), it really means to them a lot. Remember how Elias got booed for five minutes straight when he dissed the Seattle audience? That's how much the Sonics identity has been embedded into the collective memory of the state.
we got sold out by a billionaire owner to a guy who lied to our city and said he would keep the team in the city for the remainder of their contract (three years), but stole them away immediately in the following year after Durants rookie year and the year the Supersonics drafted Russell Westbrook. Man...i was there almost every home game Durants rookie year. I thought he was going to save basketball. (s/o my guy Rashard Lewis btw, still got my Ray Allen even though he shitted on our city and said he hated playing here). Clay Bennet stole the team. and now the supersonics are supposed to "share their history". it should be no wonder why some of us who were old enough, absolutely loathe OKC. salute.
@@sea4ourbe mad at the dude who sold it to him for a literal bargain. You don’t even need to be a billionaire to recognize that’s a smart business decision. Look at how the entire state of Oklahoma has embraced them.
Yep, I still want OKC to lose every game they play. An I'm jealous they're building the tallest building in North America there. Any other city an I wouldn't care. An shared history? That's nonsense, I'm glad that history will come back when a team does.@@sea4our
It's fitting this got posted the same night the NBA came back with a "Rain City Showcase" Preseason game. Thankfully, LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer still cares about us. Edit: I'm the guy at 42:47 by the way, and it was so cool to be featured! #BringBackOurSonics
Man, the Clippers have gotta change their name. That name is cursed. And all these years, I didn’t consider the Sonics getting back in the NBA via the LAC. It’d kill two birds with one stone. And give any expansion two new teams. Instead of one and a reboot. I’ll always believe Louisville should get an expansion team. And especially over any city that had an NBA team. Like St. Louis or Kansas City, Vancouver, Cincinnati, ect. Pittsburgh or Nashville would be great locations. And of course I would love for this hypothetical Louisville NBA team go back to the Kentucky Colonels.
I am born and raised in the downtown seattle area and lived here over half a century, still in the area. I remember going to a game at the kingdome vs the bullets as a kid in the finals. I remember all of these events. Your video was well put together and you did solid research.
David Stern is why. Stern was a lawyer for the MLB when the pilots were moved to become the Brewers. Seattle and King County sued MLB and won. That is how the Mainers came about. Well, Stern had said he would make seattle pay, and he did. He coordinated the move, and Silver will do his best to keep his mentors promise of no team in Seattle. Also, Shultz didn't found Starbucks. He came in after it was in business and bought out the original owners.
Once their team was approved to leave, it hardly takes any effort not to have a new team. They are not getting an expansion team for the same reason no other city has gotten an expansion team, any expansion structurally loses the owners over time since most of the money generated is not local. If it were not for having an odd number of teams, then there probably would not have been an expansion after the round in 1995. Then there are only a tiny fractions of teams ever seriously considering a move, and the few teams in smaller markets tend to be kept in local ownership groups.
As a Seattle resident who desperately wants the Sonics back, I’m glad we didn’t take the Kings. That’s what Baltimore did with the Brows and it still doesn’t feel right to me.
This example doesn't fit with that situation. As Baltimore didn't pool together investors to buy the Browns from the city of Cleveland in order to relocate the team. The owner of the Browns (Art Modell) opted to move his team to Baltimore and rename it. .
Glad I clicked on this- as many Sonic's video's as I've seen about the team since its' hijacking, I wasn't expecting much that hadn't been covered already. THANK YOU for 51+ minutes of entertaining research & insightful investigation.
Again, you put top notch effort into a video where most think the story ends at the move to OKC. Please never stop making your videos the way you do, I don’t think there’s any other sports-focused channels that put in the due diligence and effort you do into their video topics (many of which other channels wouldn’t cover) besides maybe Secret Base, their Dorktown series in particular, and I’d say that’s great company to be a part of.
One thing I wish you'd touch on is when you mentioned Paul Allen is he was also trying to bring a NBA team back to Seattle. He bought the Trailblazers and petitioned to move them to Seattle.
That would have been dirty as hell. I wouldn't have been opposed to the Kings because California has four teams. Kings fans would have just become fans of one of the other three teams. On the other hand, the Blazers are Oregons only big three pro team.
I shed a tear when they left, I will cry when it’s announced they are coming back. I even got a little misty eyes watching this amazing video about our beloved Sonics. Seattle is a basketball town above else. Thanks for the time and effort from all involved for learning about our history and making this.
Incredible job covering this. You got it all right. I loved the sonics so much i got a job working the arena so i could be at every game and get paid. I was there, basically a butler to Clay Bennet and Stern on their countless back corner meetings inside the arena, listening to them talk about the move while going to the press conference to spin BS on how they are doing everything to keep the team here. We have such huge fans in Seattle. Thanks for covering this comprehensively.
As always when the sonics are mentioned, I can only recommend the sonicsgate documentary. It's for free on TH-cam and explains all the details of how the sonics were moved with great interviews with the people involved and affected by it.
Got it on DVD. What I would like to know is how a women's pro team got a franchise and an arena whereas Seattle couldn't "find" money to renovate Key Arena.
This was great dude. Still heartbroken and waiting for the Sonics return. Only thing this could’ve also touched on was our draft picks leading up to their departure. Can’t really prove this, but we made horrible picks that made our team terrible leading up to them leaving. Then we draft Durant and Green, team finally is on the rise, and poof, sold. It isn’t THE reason, but it is interesting how the two aligned. Almost like certain parties wanted us to suck leading up to the moving of the team
He really worked constantly on the drive to get the Sonics back, even with his serious health concerns. When his fan memorabilia was stolen, Chris was just gutted. Rest in peace, Chris - you put up a good fight. Respect.
hey man, gotta say, your videos are extremely impressive and hope you can continue to do this long term.... but also Stern wasnt a good dude, because he's working to do the best to enrich the owners, but one of my favorite wild quotes from him was before the season before the 2011 NBA lockout he came into a room during the all star game and told the players there "he knows where “the bodies are buried” in the NBA, witnesses recounted, because he had buried some of them himself.""
I love how you showed Rainier Beach High School in the first few minutes. I go to Cleveland High School, which is a bit west of RB. I've passed by the school many times and they actually named their basketball arena after Jamal Crawford. Anyways. awesome video, and I really hope we get our SuperSonics back! #SaveOurSonics
24 years living in seattle and I just wanna say this video was so dope thank you for showing love and informing some of us about sonics history! shoutout oble reed!! saveoursonics!!!
Loved the info provided here. I adopted the Sonics as my team in '93. Not only because Pittsburgh no longer had a pro team but because I saw the legendary duo of Gary and Shawn putting in work. Loved all the jerseys except the all yellow AND all red and i loved the logos over the years. This was an eye opening look at what really went down. Thank you for this and bring back the Super Sonics.
amazing work bro, content was amazing. For the culture, I hope one day you can reap your rewards as much as you deserve. I definitely appreciated this a lot.
I was 11 when the team moved to OKC . I went to about 3 games,(1 with Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis and 2 with Rookie KD) and it was such an amazing experience . It definitely had a big impact on me seeing players up close and how they played and I wish they existed when I was a teenager lol . Sucks to have to travel at least 2 hours to Portland to go to games now
The research on this video is great. The one thing that fans can forget at times is that business and politics will always dictate the product that we get to see. Keep up the great work.
This is one of the first reports to dive into the true corruption that went down between the city, NBA, and Port of Seattle. Well done. There’s one small detail I’d like to add about the Key Arena/Climate Pledge arena renovation. One major con of using the old Key Arena was the concern about the increased traffic and poor traffic management in that neighborhood. A major factor in the proposal getting approved was to use the Seattle Monorail for transporting event attendees. Here’s the sketchy piece, “A private contractor, Seattle Monorail Services (SMS), founded in 1994, and currently owned by former Port of Seattle commissioner Tom Albro, operates the Seattle Center Monorail.”
🔥 my man👌🏻. As a die hard Sonics fan! I greatly appreciate your journalism and dedication to help us here in the puget sound areas Still! getting the word out And We Want Our Sonics Back!!!
This is one of the Best Sports Documentaries that I've seen in Years ! I can only imagine the amount of Research & Time this took to make. Well Done❗ 👍
Seattle should definitely get a team through expansion. I think it should also be a new team with new history not like the Pelican and Hornet history record stuff.
I can remember listening on the beach to my transistor radio at Westport WASHINGTON to the Supersonic's beating the WASHINGTON Bullets as a young teenager. I miss them deeply and have a kevin Durant jersey 💚💛
The Rumor is the Port was really against the Arena was because they have their own redevelopment plans for the area involving some land they own in the area and Hansens plan would have stepped on it by raising property prices...
I was too young at the time for Vancouver Grizzlies because they were just moved to Memphis, but the SuperSonics were the team of the North West along with the Trailblazers. Anyone who was from Alberta, BC, Yukon, Alaska… the SuperSonics and the Trailblazers were the most popular basketball teams for DECADES until 1995 when the Canadian expansion happened. After that, Canada had a team to cheer for, but there were still plenty of fans who adored the Sonics, even after Vancouver’s team was mismanaged and moved away. And then it all came crashing down. The Sonics were moved to OKC and the Raptors had just traded away their franchise players over the last couple years of that happening. But the passion for the sport remained in the North and Northwest.
I’m not sure why this shot across my feed but very good work sir. I grew up in Washington state in the 80’s and 90’s and loved the sonics. It’s good to see someone detail the crap that went on with this.
I'm not mad at Clay Bennett or his group. They made an LLC for the sole purpose of bringing an NBA team to Oklahoma City. When they were unsuccessful in buying the Kings in 2006, they went after the Sonics. Howard Schultz though was playing in our face by acting shocked when the team moved. He knew what was up when he decided to sell the team to Clay Bennett instead of the other offers on the table. Him threatening to sue Clay Bennett afterwards was just PR for the backlash he was receiving as a local.
Weii done , sir. AS evidence shows when the Blazers played a pre season game in Seattle and the fans were amazingly positive for BALL! Thanks for a no bs video, boss!
Man I remember back in 94 Tower Records by space needle Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp came out of the store buying music CD’s and Gary Payton putting his CD’s in disc changer and telling them wassup giving me head nod wassup, they were so chill and cool Miss SuperSonics
As a kings fan, holy sh*t I never knew how close we came to not having a team. I almost wonder if stern felt bad about 2002, but that's just conspiracy lol. Also jacob we do exist, there's actually alot of us and we're extremely passionate
Im at Knicks fan but i grew up watching kemp, n Peyton. I been to Seattle for different sports games a half dozen times. Its such a great sports town. Them not having a team is a crime
One of the things that you missed was the structure change of the Seattle City Council. During the fight for the SODO ARENA, the city council switched from all at-large positions to District (ward) based positions. Now, one of the Counci women who had previously represented the entire city, became responsible for the area of the City with Key Arena. Now she was responsible for the money losing arena. Had the SODO project gone forward. It would solidify Key Arena as a white elephant. Because of this, her vote changed to no on the Occidental vacation.
The thing people outside Seattle dont know is that for the most part: people have moved on from the NBA in Seattle We didnt switch to the Blazers: we mostly just moved on to Football
As much as Seattle loves the Sonics I'm surprised the move to OKC was allowed to happen. From watching this doc I get a sense that fans would have moved heaven and earth to keep the team in Seattle. Sacramento was able to save the Kings who aren't beloved nearly as much as the Sonics. The team has been gone for what feels like several decades and yet the spirit of the Sonics remains alive and well in Seattle. The NBA leaving one of the best cities for professional basketball cost them a significant loss in revenue. Was the move to OKC worth it? Sure doesn't look to be.
I was there for the Sonic championship in '79 and an avid fan through the Payton era. The NBA has totally lost me. I probably wouldn't even turn on a game now. But this is a very good video indeed
Bro I met Jacob at a comedy show. Dude is extremely nice, aaaaand intense. He's a Seattle transplant from the bay area who has fully embraced the PNW and Seattle based sports. God bless him, and his uncle who I believe planted the seeds of Seattle sports.
Best game I ever saw live was in the early 90s when I was about 12 years old. We were playing the Suns and went into double overtime and won. Seattle really misses the Sonics.
The original sale of Sacramento to Hansen was axed because NBA owners were worried about the precedent being set for owners to fund an arena. They didn't want to be on the hook for that. The city of Seattle still owned Key Arena and having an empty arena with no real tenant was not a great idea for the city government.
Damn I appreciate you rockin all that sonics gear! ❤ I've been distraught for very long time when the sonics been gone. But ive got the honor to see em in 07 when kd was rookie facing the Boston celtics who they traded for ray allen that year.
Remember listening to kjr as a kid with my dad and hearing the the heist go down live and my dad turning to me saying we are seeing KD play while he’s here we went to a lot of games that last season
Key arena had such shitty access as a venue... When there was a chance to do something smart, they literally dug a deeper pit... And David Stern had it out for Seattle... I suspect he thought something like "How could so many rich assholes have such a shitty arena?"
That was a great video, I learned a few things I missed during the years of mourning. I had wondered what happened with Chris Hansen in the end. I loved the Sonics in the nineties, it really hurt when they left an still does. Those games were so fun to go to, Payton & Kemp.
I’m a thunder fan. It sucks what happened to Seattle and I can’t wait for Seattle to get their team back. The OKC-Seattle rivalry would be pretty cool, plus Seattle deserves a team. OKC is passionate and loves the Thunder but I know the Seattle fans are passionate
NBA really screwed us over here in Seattle. Team was bought on the condition it wouldn't move. Next thing you know they are moving and to a much smaller market than Seattle.
The sad thing about the gear is, OKC still owns the rights to the SuperSonics brand. So all of the jerseys, hats, etc. that are sold, OKC gets paid. Sad.
I was there, been to all the local venues....and I have no nice words for the Key Arena, or it's previous incarnation, the Seattle Center Coliseum. It's where concrete went to die. It felt like I was watching a big time sports event in the back storage room of a Safeway. David Stern? I have no nice words for him either. He loved small markets and he was clueless about media reach. He literally rode the Magic/Bird/Jordan magic carpet. You'll find that in life, that most rich people made their wealth by being at the right place at the right time. Why do you think that most Boomers have pledged to give their life savings away?
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Biggest project yet🙏🏿s/o to seattle for hosting me. follow me on twitter for updates: x.com/kipkame11
This has been your biggest and it really bore fruit. You did a good job combining all the pieces together. More than anything, it really is a civic duty to bring back the Sonics. In some weird way, it became threaded into the state's identity, which is why the farmer who the journalist talked about when he reported of the flooding mentioning the Sonics in between his main interest (agriculture news), it really means to them a lot. Remember how Elias got booed for five minutes straight when he dissed the Seattle audience? That's how much the Sonics identity has been embedded into the collective memory of the state.
As somebody in Seattle that was like 4 when they left I appreciate u for documenting this 🙏
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I thought I was a die hard Raptors fan but Jacob just schooled me on what die hard really looks like.
we got sold out by a billionaire owner to a guy who lied to our city and said he would keep the team in the city for the remainder of their contract (three years), but stole them away immediately in the following year after Durants rookie year and the year the Supersonics drafted Russell Westbrook. Man...i was there almost every home game Durants rookie year. I thought he was going to save basketball. (s/o my guy Rashard Lewis btw, still got my Ray Allen even though he shitted on our city and said he hated playing here). Clay Bennet stole the team. and now the supersonics are supposed to "share their history". it should be no wonder why some of us who were old enough, absolutely loathe OKC. salute.
@@sea4ourbe mad at the dude who sold it to him for a literal bargain. You don’t even need to be a billionaire to recognize that’s a smart business decision. Look at how the entire state of Oklahoma has embraced them.
Superfan?
Yep, I still want OKC to lose every game they play. An I'm jealous they're building the tallest building in North America there. Any other city an I wouldn't care.
An shared history? That's nonsense, I'm glad that history will come back when a team does.@@sea4our
Theyre cursed. Karma will own their destiny. @@TerryT0114
It's fitting this got posted the same night the NBA came back with a "Rain City Showcase" Preseason game. Thankfully, LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer still cares about us. Edit: I'm the guy at 42:47 by the way, and it was so cool to be featured! #BringBackOurSonics
The legend! 🫡
Man, the Clippers have gotta change their name. That name is cursed. And all these years, I didn’t consider the Sonics getting back in the NBA via the LAC. It’d kill two birds with one stone. And give any expansion two new teams. Instead of one and a reboot. I’ll always believe Louisville should get an expansion team. And especially over any city that had an NBA team. Like St. Louis or Kansas City, Vancouver, Cincinnati, ect. Pittsburgh or Nashville would be great locations. And of course I would love for this hypothetical Louisville NBA team go back to the Kentucky Colonels.
Most underrated hoops channel on youtube. Keep the bangers coming, kip !!!
Thank you, will do !! 🙏🏿
I am born and raised in the downtown seattle area and lived here over half a century, still in the area. I remember going to a game at the kingdome vs the bullets as a kid in the finals. I remember all of these events. Your video was well put together and you did solid research.
Jewish guy lied and sold you out. Seems to be a pretty standard story.
@@joebauers3746what’s with all the foolishness in your comment?
@@1kalambre What comment? Looks like it was magically disappeared. Who nose how that happened...
David Stern is why. Stern was a lawyer for the MLB when the pilots were moved to become the Brewers. Seattle and King County sued MLB and won. That is how the Mainers came about. Well, Stern had said he would make seattle pay, and he did. He coordinated the move, and Silver will do his best to keep his mentors promise of no team in Seattle.
Also, Shultz didn't found Starbucks. He came in after it was in business and bought out the original owners.
Once their team was approved to leave, it hardly takes any effort not to have a new team. They are not getting an expansion team for the same reason no other city has gotten an expansion team, any expansion structurally loses the owners over time since most of the money generated is not local. If it were not for having an odd number of teams, then there probably would not have been an expansion after the round in 1995.
Then there are only a tiny fractions of teams ever seriously considering a move, and the few teams in smaller markets tend to be kept in local ownership groups.
As a Seattle resident who desperately wants the Sonics back, I’m glad we didn’t take the Kings.
That’s what Baltimore did with the Brows and it still doesn’t feel right to me.
Mainly for me, I just wouldn't want Sacramento history. So I agree with you wholeheartedly.
It’s annoying when Kent residents say they live in Seattle.
This example doesn't fit with that situation. As Baltimore didn't pool together investors to buy the Browns from the city of Cleveland in order to relocate the team. The owner of the Browns (Art Modell) opted to move his team to Baltimore and rename it. .
I agree for the most part. However, even if the Kings had moved, California would still have 3 teams.
@paperdo What does it matter?
Glad I clicked on this- as many Sonic's video's as I've seen about the team since its' hijacking, I wasn't expecting much that hadn't been covered already. THANK YOU for 51+ minutes of entertaining research & insightful investigation.
Again, you put top notch effort into a video where most think the story ends at the move to OKC. Please never stop making your videos the way you do, I don’t think there’s any other sports-focused channels that put in the due diligence and effort you do into their video topics (many of which other channels wouldn’t cover) besides maybe Secret Base, their Dorktown series in particular, and I’d say that’s great company to be a part of.
One thing I wish you'd touch on is when you mentioned Paul Allen is he was also trying to bring a NBA team back to Seattle. He bought the Trailblazers and petitioned to move them to Seattle.
That would have been dirty as hell. I wouldn't have been opposed to the Kings because California has four teams. Kings fans would have just become fans of one of the other three teams. On the other hand, the Blazers are Oregons only big three pro team.
That was only speculation. They had just signed a new deal to stay in Portland with the arena lease just years before.
Jacob hit on every single point in your 1 hour video in only a 5 minute interview. What a legend.
The NBA needs to bring a NBA team to Seattle period!
SPEAK UR TRUTH JACOB SPEAK UR SHIT
I shed a tear when they left, I will cry when it’s announced they are coming back. I even got a little misty eyes watching this amazing video about our beloved Sonics. Seattle is a basketball town above else. Thanks for the time and effort from all involved for learning about our history and making this.
Watching this vid on a bus going through sodo and strange to be watching a video and seeing the location right out my window
I’m from Seattle! I’m so happy you made it to Simply Seattle!!! Best store for UW and sonics gear for sure!
Incredible job covering this. You got it all right. I loved the sonics so much i got a job working the arena so i could be at every game and get paid. I was there, basically a butler to Clay Bennet and Stern on their countless back corner meetings inside the arena, listening to them talk about the move while going to the press conference to spin BS on how they are doing everything to keep the team here. We have such huge fans in Seattle. Thanks for covering this comprehensively.
As always when the sonics are mentioned, I can only recommend the sonicsgate documentary. It's for free on TH-cam and explains all the details of how the sonics were moved with great interviews with the people involved and affected by it.
@@bnb6868 I'll give that a watch!
Got it on DVD. What I would like to know is how a women's pro team got a franchise and an arena whereas Seattle couldn't "find" money to renovate Key Arena.
Shoutout to Hansen! Bro never stopped fighting for us
This was great dude. Still heartbroken and waiting for the Sonics return.
Only thing this could’ve also touched on was our draft picks leading up to their departure. Can’t really prove this, but we made horrible picks that made our team terrible leading up to them leaving. Then we draft Durant and Green, team finally is on the rise, and poof, sold. It isn’t THE reason, but it is interesting how the two aligned. Almost like certain parties wanted us to suck leading up to the moving of the team
rip Save Our Sonics Guy. He stood in front of me on the 594 to Seattle once. I felt honored.
He really worked constantly on the drive to get the Sonics back, even with his serious health concerns. When his fan memorabilia was stolen, Chris was just gutted. Rest in peace, Chris - you put up a good fight. Respect.
@catzenhouse UGH 😩 I remember when that happened, it was sickening to hear about. I wish I had gotten to know him more.
I’m so glad I discovered your channel. Been watching your vids all day. Keep up the quality content!
hey man, gotta say, your videos are extremely impressive and hope you can continue to do this long term.... but also Stern wasnt a good dude, because he's working to do the best to enrich the owners, but one of my favorite wild quotes from him was before the season before the 2011 NBA lockout he came into a room during the all star game and told the players there "he knows where “the bodies are buried” in the NBA, witnesses recounted, because he had buried some of them himself.""
Thank you for this video - born and raised here, and I can say it was a tragic story. That finally has a happy ending. A long, long time coming 🙏🏽
I love how you showed Rainier Beach High School in the first few minutes. I go to Cleveland High School, which is a bit west of RB. I've passed by the school many times and they actually named their basketball arena after Jamal Crawford.
Anyways. awesome video, and I really hope we get our SuperSonics back!
#SaveOurSonics
Go Eagles! We fly high 🦅
Jamal paid for it
24 years living in seattle and I just wanna say this video was so dope thank you for showing love and informing some of us about sonics history!
shoutout oble reed!!
saveoursonics!!!
Loved the info provided here. I adopted the Sonics as my team in '93. Not only because Pittsburgh no longer had a pro team but because I saw the legendary duo of Gary and Shawn putting in work. Loved all the jerseys except the all yellow AND all red and i loved the logos over the years.
This was an eye opening look at what really went down. Thank you for this and bring back the Super Sonics.
You did a great job putting this video together and I can’t wait to see this channel blow up one day
amazing work bro, content was amazing. For the culture, I hope one day you can reap your rewards as much as you deserve. I definitely appreciated this a lot.
I was 11 when the team moved to OKC . I went to about 3 games,(1 with Ray Allen and Rashard Lewis and 2 with Rookie KD) and it was such an amazing experience . It definitely had a big impact on me seeing players up close and how they played and I wish they existed when I was a teenager lol . Sucks to have to travel at least 2 hours to Portland to go to games now
This channel so fire
The research on this video is great. The one thing that fans can forget at times is that business and politics will always dictate the product that we get to see. Keep up the great work.
This is one of the first reports to dive into the true corruption that went down between the city, NBA, and Port of Seattle. Well done.
There’s one small detail I’d like to add about the Key Arena/Climate Pledge arena renovation. One major con of using the old Key Arena was the concern about the increased traffic and poor traffic management in that neighborhood. A major factor in the proposal getting approved was to use the Seattle Monorail for transporting event attendees.
Here’s the sketchy piece, “A private contractor, Seattle Monorail Services (SMS), founded in 1994, and currently owned by former Port of Seattle commissioner Tom Albro, operates the Seattle Center Monorail.”
Late upload but I’m still here for it dawg, let’s go!
Being from Brooklyn ny i was disappointed when the Sonics left. I hope the Sonics will officially come back soon
🔥 my man👌🏻. As a die hard Sonics fan! I greatly appreciate your journalism and dedication to help us here in the puget sound areas Still! getting the word out And We Want Our Sonics Back!!!
This is one of the Best Sports Documentaries that I've seen in Years ! I can only imagine the amount of Research & Time this took to make. Well Done❗ 👍
Seattle should definitely get a team through expansion. I think it should also be a new team with new history not like the Pelican and Hornet history record stuff.
Yooo real talk great research amazing documentary here you did amazing work dude you got a new sub here much respect
Such a good video, as dude who grew up in the 90s and had a poster of The Glove in my bedroom, thanks for making this!
I can remember listening on the beach to my transistor radio at Westport WASHINGTON to the Supersonic's beating the WASHINGTON Bullets as a young teenager. I miss them deeply and have a kevin Durant jersey 💚💛
The Rumor is the Port was really against the Arena was because they have their own redevelopment plans for the area involving some land they own in the area and Hansens plan would have stepped on it by raising property prices...
What an amazing video man! This is so slept on! Thanks for making this I really had no idea how complex this story was!
I was too young at the time for Vancouver Grizzlies because they were just moved to Memphis, but the SuperSonics were the team of the North West along with the Trailblazers. Anyone who was from Alberta, BC, Yukon, Alaska… the SuperSonics and the Trailblazers were the most popular basketball teams for DECADES until 1995 when the Canadian expansion happened. After that, Canada had a team to cheer for, but there were still plenty of fans who adored the Sonics, even after Vancouver’s team was mismanaged and moved away. And then it all came crashing down. The Sonics were moved to OKC and the Raptors had just traded away their franchise players over the last couple years of that happening. But the passion for the sport remained in the North and Northwest.
I’m not sure why this shot across my feed but very good work sir. I grew up in Washington state in the 80’s and 90’s and loved the sonics. It’s good to see someone detail the crap that went on with this.
Great video with great delivery of the story I've always wondered about growing up in Portland as a rival Blazers fan. Thank you!
This video is so good. Editing is crazy well done. Didn’t know my kings were that close to being stolen from us… so happy they weren’t.
The Seattle Super Sonics need to comeback.
I'm not mad at Clay Bennett or his group. They made an LLC for the sole purpose of bringing an NBA team to Oklahoma City. When they were unsuccessful in buying the Kings in 2006, they went after the Sonics. Howard Schultz though was playing in our face by acting shocked when the team moved. He knew what was up when he decided to sell the team to Clay Bennett instead of the other offers on the table. Him threatening to sue Clay Bennett afterwards was just PR for the backlash he was receiving as a local.
This was such a great video detailing everything really well, I’m trying to keep a close eye on the imminent return of the Sonics.
Fantastic storytelling yet again. Keep going Kip 👍🏾
Weii done , sir. AS evidence shows when the Blazers played a pre season game in Seattle and the fans were amazingly positive for BALL! Thanks for a no bs video, boss!
Amazing video dude, stoked I found this channel
you not trying to laugh at 44:27 is killing me 🤣
I'm not even that much of a basketball fan, but I still miss the era of the Sonics when we had Payton, Kemp, Schrempf, and Big Smooth/Sam Perkins!
Man I remember back in 94 Tower Records by space needle Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp came out of the store buying music CD’s and Gary Payton putting his CD’s in disc changer and telling them wassup giving me head nod wassup, they were so chill and cool Miss SuperSonics
As a kings fan, holy sh*t I never knew how close we came to not having a team. I almost wonder if stern felt bad about 2002, but that's just conspiracy lol. Also jacob we do exist, there's actually alot of us and we're extremely passionate
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Im at Knicks fan but i grew up watching kemp, n Peyton. I been to Seattle for different sports games a half dozen times. Its such a great sports town. Them not having a team is a crime
One of the things that you missed was the structure change of the Seattle City Council. During the fight for the SODO ARENA, the city council switched from all at-large positions to District (ward) based positions. Now, one of the Counci women who had previously represented the entire city, became responsible for the area of the City with Key Arena. Now she was responsible for the money losing arena. Had the SODO project gone forward. It would solidify Key Arena as a white elephant. Because of this, her vote changed to no on the Occidental vacation.
This is great reporting and storytelling, man - great work.
this is so well documented, glad i came across this
The thing people outside Seattle dont know is that for the most part: people have moved on from the NBA in Seattle
We didnt switch to the Blazers: we mostly just moved on to Football
Truth
The goat kame!
Deserves more views this video fye
absolutely love your content mate, keep it up
As much as Seattle loves the Sonics I'm surprised the move to OKC was allowed to happen. From watching this doc I get a sense that fans would have moved heaven and earth to keep the team in Seattle. Sacramento was able to save the Kings who aren't beloved nearly as much as the Sonics. The team has been gone for what feels like several decades and yet the spirit of the Sonics remains alive and well in Seattle. The NBA leaving one of the best cities for professional basketball cost them a significant loss in revenue. Was the move to OKC worth it? Sure doesn't look to be.
16 years I have been teamless in Seattle, I went from watching every Sonics game to not sitting through a single game since they left.
I was there for the Sonic championship in '79 and an avid fan through the Payton era.
The NBA has totally lost me. I probably wouldn't even turn on a game now.
But this is a very good video indeed
Bro I met Jacob at a comedy show. Dude is extremely nice, aaaaand intense. He's a Seattle transplant from the bay area who has fully embraced the PNW and Seattle based sports. God bless him, and his uncle who I believe planted the seeds of Seattle sports.
Bringing back the Sonics would be equivalent to pissing on Stern's grave....Let's get it done!
I’d love to see that full interview with Chris Daniels!!! Please release it!!! Go Sonics!!!
Great video. I hope we get the Sonics back. I have had a Sonics shaped hole in my soul for 16 years.
Thanks for promoting the city, man.
Really enjoyed this look back. I only went to a couple of games but it was 95-96 and things were HOT. Excited to see them back.
Best game I ever saw live was in the early 90s when I was about 12 years old. We were playing the Suns and went into double overtime and won. Seattle really misses the Sonics.
The original sale of Sacramento to Hansen was axed because NBA owners were worried about the precedent being set for owners to fund an arena. They didn't want to be on the hook for that. The city of Seattle still owned Key Arena and having an empty arena with no real tenant was not a great idea for the city government.
Damn I appreciate you rockin all that sonics gear! ❤ I've been distraught for very long time when the sonics been gone. But ive got the honor to see em in 07 when kd was rookie facing the Boston celtics who they traded for ray allen that year.
Remember listening to kjr as a kid with my dad and hearing the the heist go down live and my dad turning to me saying we are seeing KD play while he’s here we went to a lot of games that last season
Awesome video man
Key arena had such shitty access as a venue... When there was a chance to do something smart, they literally dug a deeper pit... And David Stern had it out for Seattle... I suspect he thought something like "How could so many rich assholes have such a shitty arena?"
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This is an absolute masterpiece bro. Great work ❤❤❤
Fantastic journalism, interesting vid, keep going. I live in Seattle and never heard any of this politic-n
THANK YOU!!! I've essentially boycotted the NBA since 2008. Your vid and the recent news reports has rekindled things for me!
That was a great video, I learned a few things I missed during the years of mourning. I had wondered what happened with Chris Hansen in the end.
I loved the Sonics in the nineties, it really hurt when they left an still does. Those games were so fun to go to, Payton & Kemp.
I’m a thunder fan. It sucks what happened to Seattle and I can’t wait for Seattle to get their team back. The OKC-Seattle rivalry would be pretty cool, plus Seattle deserves a team. OKC is passionate and loves the Thunder but I know the Seattle fans are passionate
You're not a thunder fan you're a Sonics fan
NBA really screwed us over here in Seattle.
Team was bought on the condition it wouldn't move. Next thing you know they are moving and to a much smaller market than Seattle.
known didler is crazy
I'm not even really a basketball fan but I live in Seattle. This was an absolute great video!
Subscribing, one of the best reports on the Sonics, thank you!
The sad thing about the gear is, OKC still owns the rights to the SuperSonics brand. So all of the jerseys, hats, etc. that are sold, OKC gets paid. Sad.
You killed it bro, lots of heart put into it🙏
Excellent video
Cleveland always catching strays, even from fans who don't have a team 😭😂
Bring back my damn team!!! Great video man!
Bro this channel is so fire!!
Loving the longform from you mate!
dude sick video, i remember when seattle super sonics left, I didnt know a city could even loose a team until then. of cours i was like 9
I was there, been to all the local venues....and I have no nice words for the Key Arena, or it's previous incarnation, the Seattle Center Coliseum. It's where concrete went to die. It felt like I was watching a big time sports event in the back storage room of a Safeway.
David Stern? I have no nice words for him either. He loved small markets and he was clueless about media reach. He literally rode the Magic/Bird/Jordan magic carpet. You'll find that in life, that most rich people made their wealth by being at the right place at the right time. Why do you think that most Boomers have pledged to give their life savings away?