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Oklahoma on the other hand....just ugh. Even without considering the stolen team. The only good thing about the entire godforsaken state is "Take Me Back To Tulsa", which, pointedly, ain't about OKC.
Seattlites being against OKC is like hating your ex-girlfriend because you cheated on her twice, and forgot her birthday, and never bought her anything, and then, when she asked if you two could move out of your studio apartment to maybe a one-bedroom so she could have a place to study for med school, you threw a temper tantrum and dumped her and her stuff out the window.
Now 3 years later, she's a neurosurgeon, has dropped 40 lbs and can wear a Brazilian micro-bikini, and is dating three guys who are so popular they don't have time to go on the Bachelor, and you're pulling pud in the same apartment, screaming "that bitch"!
@5 - You're analogy is a bit off. It's more akin to loving someone who, after crashing the Lexus you bought them not only blamed you for the crash, blew a dude who promised them a BMW. You had to cut it off.
Or support the team with some superstars who kind of annoy me, but are public supporters of gay rights and other good things?
Man, tough call!
@5 TMI
This is a tough one. On the one hand, I like the players on the Team I Shall Not Name. Those guys should be or were Sonics and weren't complicit in Stern/Schultz/Bennett's tomfuckery. But I will break a window if Bennett is further rewarded for that theft. At least his business is in trouble, which makes me feel better (petty, I know, but this is sports).
On the other hand, LeBron showed himself to be classless in the way he announced his, er..., decision. He's a wonderful villain for it. And, of course, rooting for the classiest player or team is what every fan does....
So I'm rooting for the Sonics to win the "national championship," for Chesapeake Energy to fail, and for LeBron to always shit the bed in the 4th quarter.
I can't hate Lebron that much just because of one bad decision, go Heat! (the team where Gary got his ring)
Them's good eating.
Something to keep in mind is that the Thunder players had nothing to do with the theft. LeBron James is a piece of shit, but no matter how angry Sonicsgate has made me, its stayed hard to root against Kevin Durant.
After he comes out.
Like standing on your soapbox and commenting on an internet thread about watching basketball? Ummmm....
Though I think a sizable factor in the rampant Lebron hatred stems from his being an uber-successful black American in the public spotlight (not unlike the current White House occupant) I did read an interview Bill Simmons did with him a few years ago in which he was, apparently non-tongue-in-cheekishly, referring to himself in the third person. Which strikes me as utterly loathsome. But then he was probably not 21 years old at the time. Hopefully he's learning from his many mistakes.
I voted that Seattleites should be rooting against OKC, if only because I think team owners take as much delight as anyone in their teams success (witness Mark Cuban last year.) And even if I, as a non-Seattleite begrudgingly root FOR them.
Seriously though @ 21 -- I think that comment qualifies as genuine, Kendrick Perkins sized foot in the mouth idiocy, even if I agree with the general sentiment behind it.
I know you're unpaid, but you're still overpaid.
Too squeaky.
But I have a dream, a wonderful dream, of where the "business model" of the NBA is going, where I'm in a bar and the NBA finals are on, between the teams from Pocatello, Idaho, and Wheeling, West Virginia - and David Stern wakes up screaming. That's a GOOD dream.
So, I'm rooting for whatever pisses off David Stern the most, that loathesome toad.
It's a fucking tragedy is what it is. I'll root for them over the Heat, but I won't watch, and I will always hate OKC, Stern, Schultz, and above all, Wally Walker.
(Almost) everyone else - stop bitching. Get over it.
if you don't care about basketball, or the Sonics, or this issue, how about you just stay out of the 1 thread in the last 4 years where we get to discuss how we got fucked by okie grifter rich fucks?