the cheapass thunder ownership got rewarded for being snakes who could credibly threaten to steal the team away to another city and got themselves a billion dollar handout from the OKC mayor for a new arena
I’ll give you that…they should still be in Seattle and it was underhanded as fuck. If it makes you feel better, they’re playing the okc tax payers for suckers (always fuck the little man, but damn those players are good)
Stole a franchise, cheaped out multiple times, and got rewarded for it by the NBA imposing a de facto hard cap right when they finished their most recent tank. Couldn't have scripted it any better for OKC.
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"Dude, the game's in Seattle"
"Yeah, at 7 pm"
So they'd drive up and buy tix at the gate and drive home afterwards)