Re: Sonics to OKC? Seriously?

"brink" <brinknospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Why?  No facility in place, there doesn't seem to be a great demand for 
> it...

Precisely... Anytime an owner gets an arena deal... he maximizes his 
wallet...

Maybe this owner is just a true blooded Oklahoman and wants to bring a
team 
to OKC. That's cool... But if he is in it for the bucks, then he probablly

will not rest with a 85 million dollar arena... If he can get a city to
pay 
for a 300 million dollar arena... with a contract to keep the team in that

city for 40 years... then he can turn around and sell the team and pocket 
the rest...

He may be a Jerry Jonesish type owner though. Jerry got 325 million to
build 
the new Cowboys stadium... and then put 1 billion of his own money in to 
it... I think Jerry generally just loves his team...



>
> Look, I'm not arguing that OKC is a *great* place for a team (it really 
> isn't and it could very well be a Memphis or New Orleans redux)...  just

> that it's more complicated than "find the biggest metro area unserved by

> NBA basketball"...
>
> If *that* were the formula, the NFL would have had a team in LA 10 years

> ago!
>
> brink