Oh Seattle

"With all due respect to Seattle I do hope they get a team someday. But let me be perfectly clear: It is not going to be this team." Sacramento Mayor and former NBA player Kevin Johnson.

Oh Seattle. All of those years without a franchise. The pains of sitting at home watching the greatest athletes in the world play basketball knowing you can't go to the game yourself and scream your lungs out while stars like Kevin Durant and LeBron James battle it out. Just when you think basketball is coming back to Seattle you see a quote like this on the television. Wait! We're not getting a new team! That's what I imagine coming from the couches of those ever so loyal Seattle fans. Those ever so loyal Seattle fans who travel to games, sitting behind the bench of Oklahoma City and mocking the players and coaches and the rest of the oraganization for leaving your city behind. The ever so loyal Seattle fans who never thought it to be a little weird that even though somebody "stole," your team, stealing another team is perfectly acceptable.
 
Seattle fans do have an interesting argument in the matter: The deserve a team. Because no one else doesn't deserve a team. Sure there are some bad teams with even worse attendance records but to think that you get a team because you deserve one is far-fetched. Why do you deserve a team? Those bad teams with bad attendance counts was Seattle. In 2007, Seattle had their chance to save their team and it dropped the ball. It appears Seattle has dropped the ball again. Which only means the city that chastizes Marshawn Lynch for fumbling the ball might ought to look in the mirror.

Deserving a team doesn't go to anyone. Appreciate the fact that you have one, or had one. Because just like your favorite player could get traded on any given day of the year, your team might be gone one day too. You don't deserve a team, unless the NBA is willing to establish a new league with 93,000 teams. Hey, those playoffs would be exciting though!