Re: Sonics to OKC? Seriously?

brink wrote:
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>> "Terraholm" <TerraholmSPAMNOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> If he moves the team to OKC... I predict it to be a failure
>>>> with-in 5 years.
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>>> Why? Same size and only pro s****ts team  as ****tland, SLC and San
>>> Antonio. And like ****tland and Utah it will be a state wide market.
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>> San Antonio is the 4th fastest growing city in America with 2 million
>> regional residence. That does not include Austin which has another 2
>> million people.. plus tons of college students.
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>> ****tland has 2 million people in its metropolitan area... and I don't
>> think Paul Allen would move them if he was losing money.
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>> SLC has the entire Salt Lake Valley... which is about 2.2 million
>> people... That does not include Provo (to the south) and Ogden (to
>> the north). Also, SLC, according to Forbes, is the fastest growing
>> business city in the country right now... which means patrons.
>>
>> Those cities are all growing and have larger populations than the
>> Oklahoma City area which has 1.2 million citizens...
>> Lastly, I cannot see Oklahomans spending a lot of their money on
>> basketball games. The per capita income is 19,098... Does the owner
>> think OKC can afford to build them a ****ney new arena that can
>> compete with other NBA teams?
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> They already have a new arena!
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>> I just think St. Louis sounds like a better bet.
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> Why?  No facility in place, there doesn't seem to be a great demand
> for it...

Not in place but might be by the 2010-11 season when right now the sonics 
can officially move. They have a new 250 mil arena  being built downtown
as 
nice  as many NBA ones for seating, advertising, restaurants, and luxury 
suites... but UofL I think has an exclusive lease as the anchor tenant.


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