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For one night only, it was like the Sonics were back in town: Seattle packed into Climate Pledge Arena, a sold-out crowd spotted with green and yellow (and Pikachu hats handed out as giveaways ...
Columnist Danny O’Neil ponders the possible return of the Sonics, and reflects on the culprits who pushed Seattle’s first modern sports franchise out of town.
The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly shortened to Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle.The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Division (1967–1970), and later as a member of the Western Conference's Pacific (1970–2004) and Northwest (2004–2008) divisions.
The Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City was a successful effort by the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics to move the National Basketball Association (NBA) team from Seattle, Washington, to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The team, the third NBA franchise to move in the 2000s, began play as the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2008–09 NBA season.
The Thunder were founded in 1967 as the Seattle SuperSonics as one of two franchises that joined the NBA in the 1967–68 season. The SuperSonics moved to Oklahoma City after the 2007–08 season. The records from the decades the team was in Seattle are still attached to the Oklahoma City history, but will be transferred back to a new Seattle ...
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The I-5 rivalry was a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle SuperSonics. [2] [1] The two Pacific Northwest cities are 180 miles (290 km) apart and connected by Interstate 5. [1] The rivalry ended in 2008 when the SuperSonics were relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder. [1] [3 ...
"Bring back our Seattle SuperSonics", Payton said forcefully, and this mostly New York crowd stood and cheered as if he'd just said, "Bring back Willis Reed." Standing alongside Payton, wearing Sonics T-shirts, were the film's executive producer Camp Jones and director Jason Reid. They unfurled a Sonics banner just before Payton's "speech."