SONICSGATE — Trailer and Movie Premiere
Posted on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 5:52 pm by Adam Brown
Sonicsgate Trailer from sonicsgate on Vimeo.
The SONICSGATE documentary film premieres for free on the internetz Monday, October 12.
Peep the trailer live in HD at www.sonicsgate.org.
Featuring exclusive HD interviews with more than 35 key characters including Kevin Calabro, Sam Perkins, Brent Barry, Desmond Mason, Nick Collison, Doug Christie, Jamal Crawford, Aaron Brooks, James Donaldson, Slade Gorton, Paul Lawrence, Brad Keller, Tom Carr and Chris Van Dyk.
Special Preview Screening October 9 @ SIFF Cinema in Seattle (321 Mercer St.)
Tickets on sale now at the SIFF Website
$5 — includes admission to Sonicsgate Afterparty at Spitfire! (2219 4th Ave)
August 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Just please say that you ripped some people some “new ones” and exposed some dirty secrets that will embarrass some people. Do that and I’ll give you 1000 hits myself
August 12th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Looks good. Thanks to all who are working so hard on it.
It’s interesting to see that clip of Van Dyk saying that he and his ilk objected not to the Sonics but to paying $500 million of tax money to keep the team here. The $500 million Renton arena proposed by Bennett only happened after Van Dyk’s Citizens For More Important Things (what an obnoxious title, by the way) worked so hard to handcuff the city with I-91. Once that measure passed, it gave Bennett cover to say that only a completely new arena outside the city would do. And had it not been for I-91, perhaps the city would have been able to do more once the Ballmer proposal came about. In other words, it was Van Dyk who helped Bennett inflate the price tag to $500 million. Now he’s decrying the added cost?
August 12th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
tribute for the Sonics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1-MiYz8Njo
August 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I’ll be there! It is great this story and these interviews are being documented in a film. Huge thanks to everyone that put effort into making this.
August 12th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
It is top notch trailer! The established movie industry people could not have done a better job!
August 12th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
freakin AWESOME WORK MR BROWN, MR REID, AND ALL!
THAT AFTERPARTY WILL BE SOMETHING ELSE TOO
August 12th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
There is another trailer in the works that is very unflattering toward Howard. Clay is not looking good also.
pass the link on to everyone you can. sonicsgate.org
This film will shatter many traditional film making methods including the traditional delivery system. SONICSGATE. is a digital primal scream from Sonics fans in the Pacific Northwest. sonicsgate.org will ensure that this FREE high drama High Definition online film will be viewed as many times as possible and with no limitations or roadblocks to stop the truth.
sonicsgate.org
August 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I just hope everyone can get behind the momentum that this is going to create. It IS going to tell the story, and noone is going to be able to work hard enough and fast enough to counter the argument we are making, or to revise the story we are telling.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Nickels is choosing to ignore us and hope we go away.
At least Fuhrer Stern, Schultz and Bennett had the decency to officially decline our interview request.
if any of you have any personal high res photos of Sonics games or related material, please submit them to info@sonicsgate.org with this statement: “I, [NAME], give the producers of Sonicsgate permission to use these photos.”
Camp Jones is comin thru in the clutch.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Very, very, very good trailer. Im sure it will be an exceptional documentry. Its too bad cause it would be so much better if the “villains” were willing to sit down and tell their side of the story. One of the hardest things about documentries is that they usually come off one sided…of course that is because the people the documentry are about are too cowardly to defend their actions.
Did you get any representation from Oklahoma City at all?
Like I said…very well done…look forward to seeing more of it. I’d continue to try and bug Kevin Jackson at ESPN.com…if this is as well done as it seems you might get a big boost from some sort of mention on that national site.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Myk,
OKC is represented by Brad Keller in the film.
The true villains have told us their story by their actions. We intend on reminding everyone of those actions through a visual and audio presentation delivered free to the internet in HD quality.
sonicsgate the movie is made by Sonics fans so there will be a green and gold feel, we feel the actions of the players involved do all the talking for us. All we have to to is piece it all together and make it interesting to watch. We need everyone to help us get the word out to generate news.
Thx for the positive feedback, we are working hard on this and reliving this is not easy, so all the encouragement is welcomed.
August 13th, 2009 at 1:35 am
The trailer looks great. Can’t wait to see this.
I just got out of a very successful meeting with the president of A large Chinese company with strong seattle connections here in Beijing and the capability and the interest in the Sonics/Seattle Center cooperation.
This is a big step forward, and a real possibility for success. I will return to Seattle next week and follow up with Brian if he has time and my own connections with Ballmer and City government officials. The next phase will actually require getting pen to paper on the cooperation structure and putting out a viable proposal for all to look at.
I wanted to pass on this piece of good news and I will keep promoting the possibilities with one other Chinese company as well.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Trailer looks good - thanks!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Looks great. I’ll be at the screening.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:51 am
looks good, I hope stern is watching!!!! this cant be good for him
August 13th, 2009 at 9:53 am
ccording to RealGM.com, Orlando general manager Otis Smith didn’t feel Hedo Turkoglu was worth the five-year, $50M contract Portland was ready to spend on the free agent and he told Kevin Pritchard that the Blazers “caught a break” with Turkoglu signing with Toronto and made it clear they “weren’t missing out on anything.”
- This has to be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen…
August 13th, 2009 at 10:10 am
the trailer was AMAZING. Thank you guys for pouring your heart and soul into it.
On another note: son of spartacus: that is great news. Please continue to keep us informed. Thank you!
August 13th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Great trailer! Looking forward to the next one going after Howie. Like Brian said in the trailer, there are many villains, but Howie will always be public enemy #1 to me. Also like what Thiel said about there never being any hope. So true.
- This has to be the funniest thing I’ve ever seen…
Yes, that was quite ironic.
I don’t think Pritchard will make too many friends amongst fellow GMs by leaking that little nugget to the media.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am
True deals of this order usually aren’t leaked on blogs..sounds good though..I’m sure there will be more Chinese ballplayers in the NBA in the next several years though.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
The trailer looks sick. Nice job.
Wow Otis. You’ll see next year that Turk was actually your most important player. Vince or Shard aren’t going to be a distributing point forwards anytime soon.
“I’m sure there will be more Chinese ballplayers in the NBA in the next several years though.”
Doubtful. There aren’t that many prospects, and beyond Yao there hasn’t been much of an impact in the NBA from Chinese players. Wang Zhi Zhi is arguably the best Chinese player in their history and he couldn’t make it in the NBA.
Overall I think we are seeing fewer foreign players get drafted each year. Probably a good thing since a good percentage of them never make it to the NBA at all. Wasted picks. I think the Ricky Rubio situation helps this trend. In 2003 there were 19 foreign players selected in the draft. In 2008 and 2010 there were 10.
August 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
http://tinyurl.com/pmxecq
Meanwhile, Mayor McFatty and crew are scrambling desperately to get their downtown development and labor cronies to pony up a last-minute offense in the backdrop of rapidly declining poll numbers. How great it is to watch his empire crumbling!
August 13th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
more news on Nickels vs McGinn and Mallahan:
http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/2009/08/11/sorting-out-this-whole-viaduct-debate
interesting theories on why Nickels is hitting McGinn so hard now:
http://publicola.net/?p=11461
Be sure to vote, kids!
Cheers,
SpeedCat
August 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Im no supporter of Nickels…but the tactics that McGinn is using specifically regarding the Tunnel shows that he is just as willing to twist the truth as Nickels to get what he wants. Not exactly the best thing in my eyes…
August 13th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Great work! I just hope this gets hits from around the country and makes the NBA look bad for being the shady organization it is.
August 13th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
The trailer has been posted by Henry Abbott on TrueHoop.
August 13th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I’ve been sending the link to Bill Simmons every couple of days. It would be great to get him to give the film some love.
Simmons contact:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=feedback/sportsguy
August 13th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
ive added the link to my email signature, so all my national bungholes association loving friends can have it smack them in the face whenever they recieve an email from me. wish i could get to seattle for the premier.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I can’t wait to see this! See you there!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
another salute to the Sonics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQBqPAJXnk
August 13th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
That’s a great idea to add the link of the trailer to your email signature.
Good job on this guys! I can’t imagine having to relive this as your making the film. Just watching the trailer made me cry. Ill be at the viewing on the 9th I can’t wait!
August 13th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
I sent the link out on my Facebook wall. Still hoping you shred some people in this thing.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Yes, Myk, Otis Smith’s comments to Kevin Pritchard are ironic — which is due to the Rashard Lewis situation — yet, he’s nevertheless right on the money this time.
Uh, Menace, Hedo Turkoglu is in line for a steep decline.
Anyway, Dwight Howard is undoubtedly the most important player on the Orlando Magic.
The film trailer looks mildly interesting, although there’s no question that Howard Schultz deserves most of the blame for what went down here.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Great Trailer. Brings my hatred up all over again. Damn I hope this thing gets some national attention.
August 13th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Man…watching that Finals video kind of has to make you wonder how Shawn Kemp didnt become one of the greatest players of all time. Guy was only 27 at the time…hate to say it, but he didn’t even come close to what he could’ve become. He was the best player on the court in that series for long periods of time.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:12 am
http://twitter.com/nickcollison4
collison twitters. really funny stuff, plus lots of seattle shoutouts.
Detlef twitters as well. http://twitter.com/Dschrempf
August 14th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Cool as a Thunder season ticket holder I look forward to checking this out. I followed the trial and the exodus pretty closely but am interested in seeing the angry Seattle fan’s version of how events unfolded. I dont love the backhistory of our new franchise but as many of you have quickly realized (by your comments about taking the Grizzlies or the Hornets or the Kings), NBA franchises dont grow on trees and inevitably one fan base is going to be alienated while another is created. I’m not naive to think it couldn’t one day happen in OKC as well.
I wish you the best of luck with your documentary and hope that it proves to be cathartic for everyone involved. Hopefully one day soon the Seattle Supersonics can play the OKC Thunder. Talk about a rivalry for the ages!
August 14th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Did any of the people involved with the mid-90s Coliseum/Key Arena renovation agree to be interviewed for the documentary—i.e., the Ackerleys, Virginia Anderson, Norm Rice, etc.? It’d be interesting to hear what they would have to say about it in retrospect.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Great trailer!! Added to my facebook as well as sent along to my fellow Sonics fans. It’s amazing how many of us still care about what happened to our team.
August 15th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Woke up and watched the video posted by phenom of the 1996 Finals. What a way to begin the day! Got me going. GP and Kemp were such a great duo. If only Kemp had stayed and kept his head. We could have gotten back to the finals. Det, Hawk, Nate, & Sam were the perfect compliments. If we could have added just one starting quality center…
August 15th, 2009 at 8:03 am
I don’t know if anyone here has added “stumble Upon” to their web browser but if you have be sure to “like” the documentary and trailer pages. I just did and was the first to do so. The more people who like it the more likely it will be “Stumbled upon” by others, especially those who wouldn’t normally be looking at our sites.
Not to mention Stumble Upon is kind of cool too!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
August 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
This is exactly what I’ve wanted ever since the whole ordeal went down. The main thing against us at the time was the fact that Stern and Clay were able to act like nothing dirty was happening to the rest of the country. Nobody outside of Seattle knew how bad it was. I just hope the doc puts most of the blame and focus on Stern and the Okies and their lies. Because we all know that Howard and Mayor McCheese played their own villianous roles. But unless the lies and deceit from Clay and Stern are exposed, the rest of the nation will not care, and will just blame us. This looks great guys. All Supes fans need to spread this all over the net when it comes out!
August 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
N-I-C-E !!! Mayor Doughboy is in for a nice October surprise.
August 16th, 2009 at 1:18 am
the GP and Kemp Sonics were solid gold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThLEB-IMDo
August 16th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Thanks again phenom. I love watching GP punish defenders in the post. Does anyone have any footage/photos of the Supes in their 1973-74 uniforms? Those were my faves, and that was the first season I followed the team. I recall a long time ago someone told me that those uniforms were stolen during the 1974-75 exhibition season, and replaced with the next incarnation, which they wore during their first two playoff seasons. 1973-74, for some reason, that season has always stuck with me all these years. Haywood, Brown, Snyder, Fox, Watts, Brisker, Gibbs. Russell’s first season as coach. The thrill of my parents taking me to the games…
August 16th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I watched America’s Best Dance Crew last night and during the introduction and background of the Massive Monkeys they showed a brief clip of Mayor 5 pennies saying how “you can’t think of Seattle b boy crews without thinking of the Massive Monkeys” or some crap like that. The absolute last person on Earth I want to hear represent Seattle and b boy crews is mayor f*** face. The fact that they were the Sonics Boom Squad during the season makes it that much more insulting. Can we PLEASE roll that dead weight of a mayor out of town?
And EJ, I agree with you. I hope the documentary exposes the NBA too.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
im not forgetting any time soon. i get up every morning, and 3 sonics logos are still on my wall for me to see, i walk out my door past a framed kemp picture, down the hall past a framed durant jersey, get in my car which has a sonics cap in the rear window, get to work and sit in fromt of a sonics logo on the wall. i then go to basketball on mondays to play for my div 2 team, the sonics, all whilest wearing a sonics cap.
ill be damed if im gonna forget and let these bastards steal a part of me.
BRING ON SONICSGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 17th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Went to the Taste of Edmonds yesterday. Saw a guy wearing a sonics shirt that had the newspaper print on the front of it of when they went to the finals. I made sure and told him nice shirt. He said he has to represent still.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:25 am
I hope your planning on entering this in the Sundance Film festival! This is awesome!
August 17th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Question…just how long do you think Bill Simmons will write about how big of a deal Soccer is until he realizes that people in America don’t give a sh!t?
August 17th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Enter this at Sundance!
August 17th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
movie looks like it’ll be good, and will at least serve the purpose of keeping us die-hards fired up. . . it will not usher in some kind of national sympathy wave, but any reminders that seattle and nba basketball should go together is welcome. whatever keeps the issue alive is wlecome!
August 17th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
“Question…just how long do you think Bill Simmons will write about how big of a deal Soccer is until he realizes that people in America don’t give a sh!t?”
People in America give a sh!t. Just not in the middle of it. Their tastes are very different from us on the coasts. IE - Music, Comedy, Movies, TV. The sad thing is there is more of them than us, therefore they get to control what “America” likes. Hence According to Jim being on air for 10 years and the fact that Larry the Cable guy is a multimillionare.
August 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
http://www.network1sports.com/stations/kpug.asp
1170 Bellingham
Reid is on the radio now!
PS no sound during commercials.
August 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Sundance and any other film festival is out of the question. They want to see it first before it gets released to internet. We didn’t have time to get go the film fest route. This is for maximum impact and we had to go straight to internet so the Mayor could get voted out!!
August 17th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
http://podcasting.fia.net/6779/3871196.mp3
OKC is turning on nick Collison.. listen to pod cast…
this is nutz
August 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Wow. Talk about an inferiority complex. What idiots.
I hope Nick gets the hell outta that hell hole ASAP. Hopefully this gets things in geaer.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Wow again. This all started because the okies took Nick tweeting about the weather in seattle being nice as an insult. What a stupid stupid town of idiots. BOOMER SOONER!!!
August 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Dang. For a second there, when the host was ripping on Seattle for weak crowds during the Clay days, you could tell that Nick wanted to stand up for us. But thought better of it. FREE NICK COLLISON! Somebody start the site! I’m serious. For reals.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
FREENICKCOLLISON . COM needs to exist.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
What radio show was this? I need an email. Got some words for this idiot.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Holy crap that riled me up. I haven’t had these emotions for years. Gotta admit, I’ve kinda missed feeling the passion.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
To the guys who behind SonicsGate. I noticed that Nick is listed as appearing in the film. PLEASE tell me he is supportive of Seattle and the fans in it. PLEASE. If that moron radio host and the yokel fans took offense to “the weather is nice in seattle,” I can’t wait to see their reaction to him defending us in, even just slightly, in that film. I sure hope so. It will make my day.
August 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Nick was a gentleman. very cautious and said things perfectly as he should. We do not want to get him into trouble but he is a friend of the fan.
However, I do not think they(OKC) will appreciate his M’s hat.
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
“Did you enjoy playing in front of 4 and 5 thousand people?”
Are these inferiority complex tools trying to twist anything and everything ever? When were there ever 4 and 5 thousand fans a game? We averaged 13,000 fans a game in our worst season in history.
I wish their lies and misinformation didn’t anger me, but it does.
Props to Nick. Oh how I would love to have a beer with him. Hell I’d buy for the whole night.
I’m so sorry you have to watch your “tweets” Nick. It seems OKC needs to attend some therapy sessions.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
As an NBA player, it takes a lot of guts to say anything..yes…pretty much anything against the NBA leadership. There is an “anti-disparagement” provision in player contracts. The Commissioner has enormous discretion to turn on a player for calling out the Commissioner or somebody in NBA management. SOme of us would love to see some sort of legal challenge to this provision. Perhaps a new CBA agreement could give the players more protection to speak out. There are reasons why NBA players are so advised to keep their mouths shut.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Wow, what an infuriating listen! Nick didn’t back down at all. I find it hilarious how the host kept trying to get Nick to say things like admitting that Seattle gave up on the team or to say “he wants to spend the rest of his career in OKC”. He wouldn’t let him go! But props to Nick, he stood by his comments and stood by us Seattle fans. I respect him even more after hearing this.
Speaking Nick, I saw him at the Rock the Bells show Friday night at the Showbox. I had no idea he was a hip hop head!
August 17th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
It is a beautiful day here in Seattle.
I kind feel bad for the people of okc having a guy on the radio just making up a situation to fit his neurosis.
Ya know, you could just as well go back to Des Mason’s comments about the city of Seattle when he was traded to the Bucks. Did the Buck radio people take Mason’s comments the same way?
Collison is right, the guy was making a leap.
BTW, the number of fans driven off by Clay had zero to do with that guys “point”. He got called on it and started throwing the kitchen sink.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I’m still pissed the OKC radio tools kept saying “4 to 5 thousand fans a game.” It’s so far from the truth it just re emphasizes the OKC media manipulation. We averaged 13,335 fans a game during the last season, the worst season in the team’s history, and 15,955 fans a game the year before. Not to mention they said “If Seattle would have just built the arena like Clay had asked.” They are mindless drones jerking it to Clay’s ugly mug every night. We built a damn arena in 1994 to the specs of the Supersonics.
Ignorance is bliss in OKC.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Nick Collison did not do bad during his interview. In his own way, he did his best to stand up for Seattle as an NBA city, but he certainly could have said a few more things to back up Seattle.
I would love somebody to call into that OKC radio show and tell these clowns that the Sonics were drawing more than 4,000 or 5,000 people a game in their final two seasons during the Bennett years in Seattle. In fact, during the Sonics final, lame duck year in Seattle, the the Key Arena was still filled at almost 80% per capacity. The Sonics Tv ratings in Seattle for the 07-08 season were also apparently higher than the Thunder’s 08′09 TV’ratings in OKC!
Moreover, it is an absolute joke that the OKC sports radio guy is trying to argue that Clay Bennett had a viable arena plan in Seattle. Clay did not even have land rights to build an arena on the spot he proposed in Renton, WA. What a joke!
August 17th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Does anybody here have attendance figures for the Clay years, as well as the few years leading up? Thanks in advance.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
EJ
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/attendance?year=2007
August 17th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
People in America give a sh!t. Just not in the middle of it. Their tastes are very different from us on the coasts. IE - Music, Comedy, Movies, TV. The sad thing is there is more of them than us, therefore they get to control what “America” likes. Hence According to Jim being on air for 10 years and the fact that Larry the Cable guy is a multimillionare.
- Soccer in America is a nitche sport in America…mostly for the upper middle class. You could argue that some of the lower class immigrents are big soccer fans. But, they are big soccer fans of their country’s teams. Until American Soccer can start showing us the best talent i America and charging high prices for their tickets and still getting the attendance necessary I think we can stop getting on the Soccer bandwagon. American’s don;t like to spend big money on 3rd class product
FWIW, I feel like Simmons and ESPN are trying to brainwash American’s cause they sense a new revenue stream they can exploit. Seems like ESPN’s new MO is to just tell us what we are supposed to be interested in and then we will follow.
August 17th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Do you think when OKC residents leave the friendly confines of their city they are blown away with the information that is available to them. Or, do you just think all that new information is a big lie?
August 17th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
ESPN = Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN
get in line, Myk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_ESPN
August 17th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
wow. that host needs to eat a pile of his own shyt cuz he’s trying to feed it to everyone else.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
He’s too full from eating Clay’s and Stern’s.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
make a post on this thread!!
http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=143235
the best way to help right now is to flood the internetz with links and keep those page views up. 10,000 views in 5 days???!!! i’m floored.
August 17th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Great blog post:
http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/The_Baseline/entry/view/29549/comparing_the_current-day_thunder_to_the_sonics_final_days_isnt_fair
ripping apart a stupid okc spin job article about how the fact that they are only middle of the league in attendance isnt their fault:
http://newsok.com/thunder-out-to-fill-more-seats/article/3391661?custom_click=rss
August 17th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
“wow. that host needs to eat a pile of his own shyt cuz he’s trying to feed it to everyone else”
The guy kept sayin things like “…I’m the most unbiased person…” and “…well I’m not one of those people who…” The guy is totally biased and is totally all of the people he said he’s not. What a tool.
August 17th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
That idiot and the Daily Oklahoman are how most of OKC folk get their news and info. Now is any of their actions and comments from the past surprising, considering this?
August 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am
They do certainly seem to be isolated information-wise. So many of them were (still are?) convinced of the easily-disproved idea that Bill Simmons is from Seattle. In fact, anytime anyone anywhere takes any type of shot at their city or state, they seem to automatically assume that it must be some sinister Seattle plot, as if Seattle were some kind of international media hub. You may recall last year when OKC was listed at #5 on the Top 10 Hells on Earth list, Part-Time Mayor Mick (“This City is Going on a Diet!”) Cornett declared, without any basis at all, that it must be a Seattle smear job. Of course it wasn’t. It turned out to be some guy from Spain who made that list. But they all believed it. Maybe they even still do. Still waiting for Hizzparttimeoner to apologize.
One can only imagine what the scandal was when Durant said in that ESPN chat that he thought Seattle was more of an NBA city.
One nice thing about this is that the next time some shrill Okie twerp enjoins you to “GET OVER IT!” you can simply post the link to this stupid little expose and tell him that apparently it’s Parasite City that really needs to “get over it.” Not to mention itself.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Bill Simmons is from Boston you effin’ OKC hicks. Do your job next time and do some goddamn research. He’s a hardcore celtics/redsox/patriots fan for f*ck’s sake.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:25 am
I think the Okies are doing what people often do when they screw others over: Make up and assume anything that will (at least in their minds) legitimize what they want to do or already did.
The formula components include:
1. Fabricate a story in which the screwer didn’t actually screw. The screwer often fabricates a scenario in which the screwer was being noble and doing what was best. Spin that includes self sacrifice on the part of the screwer gets bonus points.
2. Discredit the screwee.
So Stern and a lot of Okies like the story that a) Seattle mysteriously lost interest in the Sonics and essentially threw them away, b) the Sonics were in a tough spot and needed somewhere to go, c) OKC graciously stepped up, took the Sonics in and gave them the financial and fan support that Seattle wouldn’t, and d) Seattle is a place with lots of horrible people who hate OKC for no good reason.
It would be sooo nice if the documentary gets enough play to help fight that crap.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:11 am
From Simmons twitter:
Fun listen: @nickcollison4 working an OKC sports radio moron like a speedbag. I love Collison now. http://tinyurl.com/nlyz4x
about 2 hours ago from web
August 18th, 2009 at 11:25 am
That podcast is nuts…its more and more obvious how crazy so many people in the country actually are…
August 18th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I particularly enjoy how the guy keeps telling Nick what he should say and do…those are the kind of situations where I actually start laughing at people cause they’re so illogical.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:59 am
“…working an OKC sports radio moron like a speedbag.”
That made me laugh.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
why are you guys so smitten over OKC? you sure spend a lot of time thinking and talking about a place that you supposedly couldn’t care less about. just wondering.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
My favorite part is when he attempts to bully Collison into saying he wants to play his entire career in OKC and Nick won’t bite.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Seriously, that dude was an embarrassment to the radio station. Even the other host was getting annoyed with him.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The “Green Bay” of the NBA? Nah. More like the “paranoid, jealous, insecure, anorexic, bulimic, psychobitch girlfriend who threatens to kill both you and herself if another woman so much as wanders into your general eyesight” of the NBA. I can see why they’re so sure basketball’s finest will be beating down the door to play there.
Someone should e-mail this clown about Durant’s agents being Seattle-based. He’ll probably get one of them on the phone and demand assurances that Durant will be in OKC for the rest of his career. I’m sure that will go over well with the Goodwins.
August 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200908/resPage8.aspx
Ballots Cast/Registered Voters: 65693 / 379721 17.30%
City of Seattle Mayor
Mike McGinn 16810 26.56%
James Donaldson 5849 9.24%
Greg Nickels 15859 25.05%
Joe Mallahan 16334 25.81%
Kwame Wyking Garrett 715 1.13%
Jan Drago 4926 7.78%
Elizabeth Campbell 1974 3.12%
Norman Zadok Sigler 592 0.94%
Write-in 238 0.38%
August 18th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4408487
In other news OKC is almost done with their “temporary” upgrades. The extortion has begun.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:18 am
“why are you guys so smitten over OKC? you sure spend a lot of time thinking and talking about a place that you supposedly couldn’t care less about. just wondering.”
Hm, the Okies are having a civic meltdown over Nick Collison saying something nice about Seattle’s weather on his Twitter page—and we’re the ones who are obsessed, huh?
Weak attempt, troll. Very weak.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Civic meltdown? Isn’t it just one stupid Softy-caliber radio jock?
August 19th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Apparently not, since the whole thing started when one of the local columnists felt compelled to address the unrest surrounding Collison’s audacious electronic weather musings.
September 5th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Have to get this out, after listening to that yahoo in OKC go on about “4-5K” attendance in Seattle the last few years. I looked it up:
http://www.databasebasketball.com/teams/teamatt.htm?tm=Sea&lg=n
These numbers do not reflect actual attendance (sound familiar?). What they do reflect is pretty strong support for a team that was going to move, and had been stripped of any connection to its fan base (Jack Sikma, Detlef Schrempf, Lenny Wilkens, Rashard Lewis, Ray Allen-not to mention a s***ty radio deal and limited exposure of the one thing the franchise had going for it on a national level-Kevin Durant. How’s that going these days, KD?).
I was amazed and proud of the fact that we (I had season tickets the last year) had that many people show up for what was a very depressing situation, all around. Would the same thing happen in Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, or even OKC? Speaking of Memphis, pulling the Grizzlies out of Vancouver may have impacted the situation somewhat in Seattle. Do you think that any self-respecting fan in BC would resume following the Sonics, once their team was relocated? It was no accident that the opponent for the NBA’s ill-fated “gift” Trailblazer practice game in Seattle was Phoenix. Steve Nash is from Canada!
NBA-where short-sightedness happens.