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NBA should bring Seattle Sonics back after dismal All-Star Game
I bet you had a better President’s Day weekend than NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
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After spending the past year pleading with his stars to play hard in the All-Star Game, Silver and NBA fans were treated to an embarrassing display of basketball Sunday night in Indianapolis. The Eastern Conference posted a 211-186 victory over the Western Conference in a matchup that had less intensity than a YMCA pickup game.
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic spent the night playing pranks. Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star Anthony Edwards said he viewed the game as a “break” and admitted he wasn’t going to be “super competitive.”
Luka came online at the half to defend his shot selection 🤣 pic.twitter.com/V85kRlTvLN
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) February 19, 2024
Even Silver, who has spent his tenure as commissioner tirelessly advocating for players, could not hide his disgust.
“And to the Eastern Conference All-Stars, you scored the most points,” he said during the postgame ceremony. “Well … congratulations.”
Here’s an idea, Adam. Want to draw attention away from the worst All-Star weekend in recent memory?
Announce the Seattle Sonics are coming back to the NBA.
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No more hinting about future expansion. No more dragging your feet. No more platitudes.
Sure, it won’t make your All-Star weekend much better. But it will change the narrative that your league continues to decline while the NFL dominates the calendar. Expansion is a sign that your league is growing, not vice versa.
Just a reminder: Seattle has a remodeled arena that’s NBA-ready. The fanbase that supported the SuperSonics for more than 40 years is still here. There are potential owners waiting to foot a rumored $5 billion expansion fee. Seattle-Tacoma is the 13th largest media market in the country. What are you waiting for?
In an interview on TNT before Sunday night’s debacle, Silver said “it’s very likely the NBA will expand,” but the timetable remains unclear. The NBA’s current nine-year, $24 billion television deal expires at the end of the 2024-25 season. Silver said he wants a new television deal finalized before expanding.
Last week on the Pat McAfee Show, Silver went into detail about why Las Vegas is a great expansion candidate. He also told NBA.com that Mexico City is a possible expansion destination, but not during the next round of expansion.
Silver had previously said that there wasn’t enough talent to add a pair of expansion teams. But he claimed that’s no longer a concern Sunday during his interview with TNT.
“One of the reasons we hadn’t expanded earlier was because even though the best players in the world come to this league, I think we were concerned about the dilution of talent,” Silver said. “But look at the amount of talent in the league now. Look how many great teams we have with great players … There are great cities out there that want teams and I think there’s enough great players in the world that we could field two more teams.”
NBA fans in Seattle have waited 16 years since Clay Bennett stole the Sonics and bolted to Oklahoma City. They had to watch hedge fund billionaire Chris Hansen agree in principle to buy the Sacramento Kings, only to see the sale thwarted by ex-NBA commissioner David Stern.
Now they have to watch the Thunder evolve into one of the most exciting teams in the NBA, with a talented young roster and a seemingly endless number of high draft picks.
Meanwhile, Seattle remains a basketball hotbed. Former Los Angeles Clippers shooting guard Jamal Crawford packs local gyms every summer with his pro-am league. Magic power forward Paolo Banchero, a Seattle native, just made his first NBA All-Star Game. Fans pack Climate Pledge Arena every fall when it hosts a preseason game dubbed the Rain City Showcase.
Let’s end this charade. Want to earn back some goodwill after your All-Star debacle? Announce the SuperSonics are coming back.
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SEATTLE — Seattle police arrested a 40-year-old man after a stabbing in the University District on Monday morning that left another man wounded.
Officers were sent to the 5000 block of Brooklyn Avenue North just before 8 a.m. for a reported stabbing. Police arrived and found a 21-year-old man with stab wounds.
Officers provided aid until the Seattle Fire Department arrived and took over. The victim’s injuries were stated to be non-life-threatening
Police searched the area and located a suspect near Northeast 47th Street and University Way Northeast. The 40-year-old man was arrested and booked into the King County Jail.
(WSB file photo. No outdoor cap tosses this year!)
Tomorrow (Monday, June 1) brings not only a new month but also the first graduation ceremony of the season for West Seattle’s three biggest high schools. And all are graduating at new venues this year. Summit Atlas, which after nine years remains West Seattle’s only charter school, will graduate 55 seniors in a ceremony at Highline Performing Arts Center in Burien at 6 pm Monday. West Seattle’s two major public high schools, Chief Sealth International HS and West Seattle HS, both have graduation ceremonies on Wednesday, June 17, at McCaw Hall (hosting graduations while Memorial Stadium is being rebuilt) – CSIHS at 5 pm, WSHS at 8 pm. The Seattle Public Schools webpage for graduation info also lists where and when ceremonies are planned for its alternative programs, some of which hold classes in West Seattle.
The Seattle Seahawks lost a key member of the front office to the Minnesota Vikings, as the NFC North team named Nolan Teasley its new general manager. The hire could change the fortunes of both teams in the immediate future.
Teasley will be taking over a Vikings team that isn’t far away from contending. One of the key reasons the team fired former GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah wasn’t that he couldn’t build a collection of talent, but that he didn’t seem to understand how to get the best possible answer at the most important position in sports: Quarterback.
Vikings fans watched as former QB1 in Minnesota, Sam Darnold, signed with the Seahawks last offseason, and then followed that by helping lead his team to a Super Bowl victory. That was Seattle’s second title. Minnesota has never won a Super Bowl.
Minnesota Vikings hire Nolan Teasley from the Seattle Seahawks
Teasley, though, has the experience and, clearly, the ability to create an environment in which a team will thrive. He has been working with general manager John Schneider in Seattle since 2013, and has worked in scouting and been the director of pro personnel. He has most recently served as Schneider’s assistant GM.
Schneider could very well be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame one day after leading the Seahawks to two Super Bowl wins. Still, with teams with two completely different rosters and coaching staffs (Schneider is the only GM to ever do that), Teasley would have learned at the knee of one of the best to ever perform general manager duties.
Nolan Teasley could also be entering a situation where his new team is already poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Minnesota finished 9-8 last season despite the fact that its quarterback play was among the worst in the NFL. This offseason, the Vikings signed Kyler Murray.
Murray underwhelmed or was injured throughout his career with the Arizona Cardinals, as Seattle Seahawks fans know well due to their favorite team counting on two wins every season against the NFC West brethren, but under the wise direction of Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell, Murray could be coaxed into playing a much better form of football.
As the Minnesota Vikings play in the NFC, and could potentially be a difficult obstacle for the Seahawks to repeat as Super Bowl champions, Teasley is already in a good spot. The issue for Seattle is that Teasley is smart enough to make moves to get Minnesota even better well into the future. A great rivalry between Seattle and the Vikings might be about to start.
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