An Open Letter to Sacramento Kings Fans

Who cares WHICH TEAM'S FANS LOST WHICH TEAM?! A BOYCOTT OF THE ENTIRE NBA(And yes the PLAYERS' ASSOCIATION) SHOULD COME NEXT IF THE ENTIRE SEASON IS LOST DUE TO THE PLAYERS' GREED AND THE STUBBORNNESS ON BOTH SIDES! HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BASKETBALL MAY NOT OFFER PEOPLE ANYWHERE NEAR THE EXCITEMENT OF THE NBA, BUT THE PLAYERS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE BASKETBALL HAVE ONE THING THE PLAYERS IN THE NBA DO NOT HAVE-THEY WON'T WALK OUT ON YOU WHILE YOU'RE WATCHING THE GAME! Also, by forming sports and exercise groups in their own communities NBA fans WILL NOT feel as deprived if there is another lockout 5 or 10 years down the road. in their own communities

truth is, clay bennett delibrately stripped down the team so that it would be bad for the season prior to them moving to OKC. he did this so that it would seem the team has no support and as little funds as possible going into it. theres a terrific film called sonicsgate that shows the truth about what happend behind the scenes of the "rise and demise" of the seattle supersonics

I live in NYC...never even been to Seattle. It LITERALLY broke my heart that the Supersonics no longer exist. I love basketball, but I cannot even express the confusion that I feel in regards to the Sonics being gone. Oh wait, I can. It feels similar to someone dying. I ALWAYS cared about the Sonics, if they sucked, if they were great, I loved their players no matter what. For you to say that only 3 players are on the team from when it was in Seattle, you are retarded. The reason you have a good team is because the last 4 years, the Sonics were creating a blueprint for the success that you effing jerks are enjoying now. I've nothing against Oaklahoma City fans, but don't for a second think that you have any concept of what it truly is to support a basketball team through thick and thin. And as long as the Thunder (whackest name in the NBA, btw), exist you will have to realize that it is not truly yours and never will be.

F$@% EVERYONE IN OKLAHOMA!!!

SACRAMENTO STOLE THE KINGS FROM KANSAS CITY! The thieves would be praying to keep their stolen goods.

P.S. to Joe: Hope you're looking forward to the 2011-12 season. Be sure to get your nonrefundable season tickets before they sell out. That talk of a season long lockout? Clay was telling me just the other day: "Be sure to let Joe know that Dave and I would never let that happen." Your amigo, Satan

Joe, You care. Deeply. If you didn't, you wouldn't post comments like this one. You know that sound in the pit of your conscience. You know what you did, two summers ago. Karma: a dish best served cold. You don't know where its coming from. But you know at some point, somehow, this team, and this experience, is going to break your heart. It's certainly taken money out of your wallet. But that's just the beginning. Rationalize all you want. And at the end of the day...here's the best part....there you are, in, let me get this right...Oklahoma City. Best, Satan

Great post, Scott. OKC people have zero idea how hard Save Our Sonics people worked to save the team from the great kidnapping. There is not one ex-Sonic superstar from Gary Payton to X that didn't fight to keep the Supersonics in Seattle. And as a little sidebar I live in Spokane now and not a week goes by I don't see someone wearing Sonics gear so know that the Sonics were statewide. For the life of me I can't figure why OKC people get upset that we are upset at having our team ripped away from us. They have the team and we do not and that should be good enough for them. Sacramento fans...fight like crazy to keep your team no matter the odds.

Joe, You can't know what it's like to lose your team after 40 years. You have no idea. Name a sports team Seattle stole. You talk about companies? Fool. We're talking about sports. We're talking about bonding and family. This isn't Starbucks. Take Starbucks. Take any other company. This isn't corporate, it's tradition. It's loving the team when SeDale Threatt is the face of the franchise. When they were nothing and you still gave them your love and support. The team was stolen. The team was hijacked. Terrorism was the tool of Stern and Bennett. They terrorized our community. They held the people hostage for the dollars they wanted. You know nothing of what it feels like to have that happen to you so shut the hell up. And if you want to bag on Seattle fans for saying childish things, go check out ANYTHING on the Sonics on the Seattle PI Web site and you will see Oklahomans rubbing salt into the wound. Speak for them. Defend them. Can you? Does your mirror only reflect angry Seattle fans? The town deserved a team. A new team, not ours. Kings fans unite. Don't let rest and be me. Stand tall now. Do what you need to make the NBA stay in your city. Sonics fans help them. The only chance we have for vindication is to help the Kings fans and any other team in their shoes to keep their team. I am now a Kings fan. A Sacramento Kings fan. I will not rest until The NBA keeps the Kings in Sacramento. No more NBA-holes can decide for us. We pay the salary. We decide.

Adande, I see you are obviously a member of the "tolerance and inclusion" crowd. Your hypocrisy is showing. As is your ignorance. But why should that be a surprise. Reading through the notes, hypocrisy and ignorance are the rule, not the exception. You folks in Seattle can continue to buy into the fantasy of "Bennett never meant to keep the team here" if you wish, and continue clinging to your bitterness. I honestly don't care anymore. Some of you act as if losing a basketball team is the moral and emotional equivalent of the Holocaust or something. You act as if your lives have been shattered beyond repair. One fool came to a game in Portland against the Thunder with a sign saying his son's life had been ruined because the Sonics were gone. Are you freaking kidding me? How incredibly naive are you people? That kid is going to grow up being *taught* - by a supposed grown-up, and his own parent no less - that Oklahoma City is someplace that is to be loathed, hated, and insulted at every opportunity, and anyone from the state of Oklahoma is to be verbally spit upon whenever possible. And you fools think this is okay. Grow the hell up. And lose the sanctimonious attitude. Seattle has "stolen" plenty of companies from other cities over the years, and other company's employees. You didn't see anyone whining about it on an Internet forum or making a bunch of grade-school comments about Seattle the way you people do about Oklahoma. So quit acting like victims. You don't get to play that role when your city has already done the same thing to others. You were fine with it then, I'll just bet. Then it happens in reverse, and you cry foul. Well guess what. It doesn't work that way. Welcome to the real world. Now grow up and get over yourselves.

Not "if it CAN happen anywhere"...it WILL happen in OKC. Because the God-fearing conservative white folks of Oklahoma are not going to support a team of young black men four decades from now when the team can't win 15 games in a season. Not that they'll last 40 years in OKC, as they won't, but you get the point. You're not NY, Boston, Chicago, or LA, so you'll lose your team eventually. The NBA and the individual owners' MO is to leverage against the fans whenever they have the chance. If they could go back in time and prevent Cuban from buying the Mavs, they would in a heartbeat, as he's the only one who really breaks the mold. Everyone else will ring the local people dry to keep their bottom line, and when that fails, they sell or move, period.

Way to re-write history "Barry". We supported the team for over 40 years, and everyone with a brain knew that Big Boy Bennett had no intention of keeping the team here. Even during the final sham of a season in Seattle, when Bennett shut down all promotion and support of the team, we still had decent attendance. In the end, all that mattered was money (or in this case, his wife's money)--fan support had nothing to do with it. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.

I was a 9 year old Kansas City Kings fan when this happened to us. Trust me, there's some praying going on all right. If we actually get our Kings back, it's going to be AMAZING.

@barry weaver, We did come out and support them. Key Arena sold out every night. It was impossible to get a ticket. We even came out when they gave us a crap team. It has nothing to do with the fans, and everything to do with the greed of the NBA. I take it you are from OKC. Enjoy the Thunder now. Even though they are sloppy seconds!

Well written. I, too, am from Seattle. I remember dreading watching the games at Arco Arena. The Kings were unbeatable there back in the late 90's early 2000's. As Schultz, Bennett, and Stern, conspired to bend us all over, I always knew in my mind that *something* would happen to save our Sonics. Someone with a ton of moolah would come to our rescue. But, they were all just false hopes. In the end, I am disgusted with the NBA because of the lying and backstabbing they did to all fans, not just those in Seattle. I don't think I will ever be an NBA fan again. Even if the "Fake Sonics" come back to town, it would take a miracle for me to spend any of my hard earned money on the team. Trust me Kings fans, I really hope your team is spared the certain death of Satan Stern, but, like Beckley Mason said, don't get your hopes up.

If your mark as$es would have showed up and supported (physically and monetarily)the team you would still have them. How are you supposed to get any return on "a relatively poor economic investment" if you put nothing into it? And why do you badmouth what you so desperately crave? Only 3 guys are left from playing in seattle, it's our team now; get over it.