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Chuck & Buck 3-25 hour 3: Chris Broussard, Ian Furness & listener reactions · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, we got the news. It came a little earlier
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  Speaker 1: than we were expecting, and so it lands in our
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  Speaker 1: laughs here on Chuckubox Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Board of Governors has approved Vegas and Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: They will move forward with expansion ideas built around those
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  Speaker 1: two cities. They will take bids from ownership groups and
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  Speaker 1: then figure out who the best ownership group for the
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  Speaker 1: job will be. They will have one last vote in
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  Speaker 1: July to get the final hurdle cleared. And it looks
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  Speaker 1: very much like the Seattle SuperSonics are a thing again,
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  Speaker 1: and we are here to discuss it, potentially celebrate it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know if people really know how to
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  Speaker 1: reach act right now to all of this, but Chris
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  Speaker 1: Brusard is here to offer his expertise. Longtime NBA reporter
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  Speaker 1: now host The First Things First on the Fox Networks
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  Speaker 1: FS one, and he joins this now for his reaction
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  Speaker 1: to our news here in Seattle. Great to have you on, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be on.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, and I'm excited. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you guys are, but it's great to have the
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  Speaker 3: NBA on the road to being back in Seattle, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I did. I've covered the league long enough to where
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  Speaker 3: I used to go to Seattle for games when the
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  Speaker 3: Sonics were there, and it was always a great place
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  Speaker 3: to go for games. The crowds were incredible, and so
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  Speaker 3: this is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: How should we feel in Seattle about this vote? Known
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  Speaker 1: that this is a bit of a wounded fan base
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  Speaker 1: up here in Seattle that doesn't highly trust the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: but based on this vote and how it came down
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  Speaker 1: earlier than what was expected today, so it sounds like
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't much haggling in the boardroom. How should a
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  Speaker 1: Sonics fan feel about this news here today?
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  Speaker 2: In your opinion, yeah, I think they should be excited.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, if you're a basketball fan and they've
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  Speaker 3: got tons of them up there, it's been tough. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: not only did you lose a great team, but that
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  Speaker 3: team went on, you know, to be a champion, and
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  Speaker 3: even before they won the championship in Oklahoma City, they
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  Speaker 3: had some of the best players we've ever seen in
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  Speaker 3: Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, James Harden that would have been
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle, and obviously that that was an opportunity loss
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  Speaker 3: for you, guys, but they are bringing them back. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, Seattle, I don't have to tell you guys,
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  Speaker 3: but just at the high school and youth levels, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it is one of the best basketball you know, places
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  Speaker 3: in the country, and so I know they love the
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  Speaker 3: sport up there.
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  Speaker 2: So I would hope that they're excited.
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  Speaker 3: About getting this team back, even though they still have
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  Speaker 3: some sore feelings.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, I mean, yeah, the sore feelings are there, and
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  Speaker 4: some folks just flat out are not going to do
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  Speaker 4: it until they see maybe a SuperSonics player take the
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  Speaker 4: court in a few years, if that's how long we
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  Speaker 4: have to wait. But I mean, from your perspective of
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  Speaker 4: how this whole thing works, this is the vote basically
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  Speaker 4: approving that. Now, all right, bitters, bring us what you
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  Speaker 4: want to give us, you know, let us know what
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  Speaker 4: you got to offer, and then there's the final approval vote.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how much how much would you say this
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  Speaker 4: puts you down the road towards getting them versus there
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  Speaker 4: still is one major hurdle to cover, and that might
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  Speaker 4: be the one that you should worry about.
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  Speaker 1: Now, are we at the twenty yard line? The ten,
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  Speaker 1: the five, one, what yard line are we on, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: Say the fifteen about.
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  Speaker 1: That, Okay, we're in the red zone.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, clearly the NBA wants the team there.
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  Speaker 2: The league is in a great place, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're talking about an eight roughly eight billion
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  Speaker 3: dollars to buy the team. But the league, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you look at the way the franchise franchises have been growing,
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  Speaker 3: and so I would think that you would have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: plenty of bidders or at least a good number of.
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  Speaker 2: Bidders on this. So I imagine, you know, the league's
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  Speaker 2: also shown that.
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  Speaker 3: Seattle and Vegas look like they're gonna be some of
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  Speaker 3: the top you know markets in the league as far
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  Speaker 3: as earning money, and so I think they'll have plenty
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  Speaker 3: of suitors.
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  Speaker 2: And that's really what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 3: If you got the suitors, there's no question that the
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  Speaker 3: team will be there.
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  Speaker 2: I think there. What were they saying twenty twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: you know, could it take a year longer? Maybe, I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's possible.
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  Speaker 3: But right now I feel like, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: right on track to expand in a few years.
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  Speaker 1: Chris brus artist with us. He's the co host of
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  Speaker 1: First Things First on the Fox Sports FS one long
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  Speaker 1: time NBA reporter, that's that's my Brew. My Brew was
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  Speaker 1: a longtime NBA reporter.
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  Speaker 5: That's the guy I know back in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: And he's joined us here on Chuck and Buck in
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  Speaker 1: the mornings. So I have heard some of your colleagues
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  Speaker 1: there at Fox Sports express maybe the NBA shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: expanding right now. They have a few issues between load
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  Speaker 1: management and also tanking being a big problem right now
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  Speaker 1: in the league, that maybe now is not the time.
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  Speaker 1: Is there enough talent to go around for a couple
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  Speaker 1: more teams in the NBA to go from a thirty
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  Speaker 1: team to a thirty two team league? What is your
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  Speaker 1: response to that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think there's plenty of talent now. Remember
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  Speaker 3: and obviously the world has improved. Maybe twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 3: the world obviously wasn't as good.
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  Speaker 2: But now you are not just.
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  Speaker 3: Taking players primarily from the United States you got, you're
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  Speaker 3: taking players.
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  Speaker 2: From all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously these other countries are producing great players, and so
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  Speaker 3: I think there's definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Enough talent to field thirty two teams.
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  Speaker 3: And even if you look at a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: tanking teams, and it is a problem.
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  Speaker 2: The league's gonna have to fix that. They'll have to
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  Speaker 2: do something with, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The draft lottery and things like that to get these
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  Speaker 3: teams to stop tanking. But look at a Utah for instance.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they got Lowry Market and they got Jared
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Junior. They got Kante George, Like, they have some talent.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's not a lack of talent. Washington
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  Speaker 3: has just been a poorly run franchise. But you got
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  Speaker 3: Trey Young, obviously got Anthony Davis. Like, there are teams
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  Speaker 3: out Alex Sar out there that are tanking, that do
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  Speaker 3: have talent.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this when you because the Western.
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  Speaker 3: Conference has been better than the Eastern Conference, I mean
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  Speaker 3: for the last twenty thirty years, right, And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it is how the franchises are run.
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  Speaker 2: It's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 3: Like the teams in the West generally are run better
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  Speaker 3: than the teams in the East. Better front offices, better ownership,
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  Speaker 3: they don't overreact to coaches in the West get a
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  Speaker 3: little longer rope.
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  Speaker 2: Generally speaking, they have drafted better.
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  Speaker 3: Oklahoma City and San Antonio look like they're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: the two best teams in the league, you know, certainly
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  Speaker 3: in the West for years to come. But those teams
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  Speaker 3: are the best run teams in the league. And so
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  Speaker 3: that is what It's not a lack of talent. Some
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  Speaker 3: of the front offices have done poor jobs, some of
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  Speaker 3: the ownership has been poor, but the talent is definitely
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  Speaker 3: there for thirty two teams. And but but to your point,
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  Speaker 3: they do have to get this tanking under control because
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  Speaker 3: right now you might have eight teams that aren't even
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  Speaker 3: trying to win, that are actually trying to lose, and
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  Speaker 3: so that's not good for.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Along those lines, I mean, the Charlotte Bobcats didn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: write a book on how to expand in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's twenty years they still haven't one playoff series.
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  Speaker 1: They've even changed their name back to the Hornets for
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  Speaker 1: goodness sake, Chris, and so I would ask, is that
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  Speaker 1: the road that Seattle will face and Vegas will face
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  Speaker 1: or was Charlotte just particularly bad at basketball?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously they didn't do a great job, you know with
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  Speaker 3: Bob Johnson and.
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  Speaker 2: Even Michael Jordan were there, and they made some.
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  Speaker 3: Mistakes but remember Charlotte was an expansion team long before.
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  Speaker 2: That with Miami, and they had.
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  Speaker 3: Larry Johnson and Kendall Gill and Muggsy Bots in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: You know, obviously after some growing pains, went on to
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  Speaker 3: have some great success. So it's really, you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: a little an expansion team. You know, it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: always starts in a hole, right, It's just the way
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: But again, if you get good.
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  Speaker 3: Ownership that hires good front office people, then they can
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  Speaker 3: make the moves to really, you know, turn it around
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  Speaker 3: in fairly short order. And so I would be optimistic
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  Speaker 3: obviously just about bringing the sport back there.
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  Speaker 2: But if you get the right people in place, I.
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  Speaker 3: Do think an expansion team can become competitive pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope.
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  Speaker 4: So it feels like the rules to some degree kind
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  Speaker 4: of put you behind the eight ball a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: is there any chance do you think that they might
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  Speaker 4: adjust some of those just because of the I mean
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  Speaker 4: maybe not. You can't probably blame Charlotte's lack of competitiveness
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  Speaker 4: just simply on the rules. I mean, some of it
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  Speaker 4: has to do with those that were in charge, Like
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about, But is there any chance that they
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  Speaker 4: they try to kind of shake this thing up a
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  Speaker 4: little bit to give Vegas and Seattle if this does
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  Speaker 4: come to fruition, a way better chance of being successful
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  Speaker 4: Right off the bat.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the current owners will want to do
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  Speaker 3: something like that, But if the potential owners really try
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  Speaker 3: to push for it, then that might that possibly could
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  Speaker 3: be a place because clearly the league and the ownership
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  Speaker 3: wants to do this, so maybe that gives, you know,
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  Speaker 3: potential buyers a little bit of leverage. It really would
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  Speaker 3: depend on how big the pool is, but I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: Generally the other owners are gonna want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I guess in the favor of Vegas and
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  Speaker 3: Seattle is the fact that they've been projected to be,
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  Speaker 3: I think, both among the top ten revenue generating cities
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  Speaker 3: in the league, and so with something like that, maybe
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  Speaker 3: their other owners have a little bit of incentive to
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  Speaker 3: help them be a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: But my general thought is no, But I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, all I'm asking for and I don't think this
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  Speaker 1: is too much. I just want the Sonics to start
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  Speaker 1: with Wimby. Can we just start with Wemby and we
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  Speaker 1: don't need any of the rules. Is that do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's fair?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, here's what I said. This is what I said.
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  Speaker 2: I want and I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't seen if this has already been discussed, but
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  Speaker 3: I want the Sonics to get obviously the name, but
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  Speaker 3: all the history back. Yeah, because right now that's Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: City's history, you know if you look at like the
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  Speaker 3: references and stuff. But I want you guys to get
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  Speaker 3: all that history back, and okaysees history can start in
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever year it was they went there. So
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  Speaker 3: that's what I'm hoping for you guys. He did it
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns. Obviously it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: as long as a time without the team, but hopefully
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  Speaker 3: you guys get your history back because it's a great history.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's just that's just gotta happen. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: not that's not even a debate. We might we might
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  Speaker 1: even turn down expansion if we don't get our If
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  Speaker 1: the Sonics fan don't get they don't get their history back.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Brustard is with us. I'll just close with this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, longtime basketball fan who is your favorite Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Supersonic of all time?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Let's see, I really liked that team that won
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  Speaker 3: the championship in seventy nine, going back Dus Williams, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Dennis Johnson, Downtown, Freddie Brown, Right, I mean, I guess
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  Speaker 3: I loved Ray Allen. I love Gary Payton. I'll just
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  Speaker 3: put it this way. He wasn't obviously the best, absolute
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: best Sonic, but I would say that would probably be
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  Speaker 3: Gary Payton in my book. But I would say just
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  Speaker 3: the most exciting. I'm gonna say Sean Kemp yeah years right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When he was the rain Man.
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  Speaker 3: We know it didn't last forever obviously, but those years
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle, he just I mean, he was one of
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  Speaker 3: the greatest shows in the league.
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  Speaker 1: As just a basketball fan your entire life, Does it
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  Speaker 1: feel right that the Sonics get back into the league
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, totally. I hated to see.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there are some cities that just haven't you know, really,
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  Speaker 3: I guess done right by an NBA team. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they just didn't support him the way they should have,
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  Speaker 3: or the team just wasn't good and exciting and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But Seattle was none of that. I mean, you guys
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  Speaker 2: had great teams, the fans were great. It's a great
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  Speaker 2: city to go to. H for visitors, you know, visiting
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  Speaker 2: media and visitors in general.
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  Speaker 3: It really felt like, honestly, there was just it's unfortunate
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  Speaker 3: because it felt like there was no reason to leave,
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  Speaker 3: you know, beyond you know, it's always comes down the money,
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  Speaker 3: of course, but I just I think it's great. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's one of the best cities in the country.
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  Speaker 3: So it clearly is a major league city. You got football,
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  Speaker 3: you got baseball, and it's only right.
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  Speaker 2: That you should have basketball. So yeah, this is great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you feel that way, and without us
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  Speaker 1: having paid you, uh to say that, Yeah, that feels good.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I don't travel as much as I used to.
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  Speaker 3: I'm obviously in the studio every day, but I'm hoping
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  Speaker 3: I can get back out there to Seattle for some
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  Speaker 3: games because it was really beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: City to visit.
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  Speaker 3: I always used to love going there and kind of
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  Speaker 3: exploring the city and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you haven't been to Climate Pledgerina, which is
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  Speaker 1: where the Sonics are going to play, we're assuming, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta see it. I mean, it is an unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: building and It's going to be perfect for the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Just absolutely perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I haven't been. It was Key Arena where I go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same location, same spot, same location, just a completely
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  Speaker 1: different building at this point. Well, Chris, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: We greatly appreciate you hopping on with us. This is
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  Speaker 1: a big day for us this year, and you were
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  Speaker 1: our first guest on KJAR to react to this news,
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  Speaker 1: so we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, I enjoyed in it. Congratulations, Thank you,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Brusar joining us right here on Chuck and Buck
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  Speaker 1: from Fox Sports. First things first, lifelong NBA fan used
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  Speaker 1: to cover the league for a living, so some great
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that, And there is a there is a
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  Speaker 1: belief in that, I mean amongst players, former players. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this was a bit of a mecca here in terms
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: of destinations within the NBA, places that people wanted to
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: go watch a game or wanted to play in Seattle,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: and those that played here in Seattle swear by having
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: played here in Seattle. But it's it's been eighteen years
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  Speaker 1: for goodness sake. I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: It's been eleven years since I've moved here, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe it when people tell me that this is a
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  Speaker 1: basketball town, you know, I believe that. I see it
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  Speaker 1: in the high schools, I see it the way that
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: people across the country sort of react to it. But
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  Speaker 1: I've been here eleven years without the NBA, and really
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  Speaker 1: without a great college basketball team, being a couple of
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  Speaker 1: good teams in my eleven years that the Huskies have
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  Speaker 1: put together, but for being a basketball town, it's been
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  Speaker 1: a long time since we've been basketball relevant, and today
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  Speaker 1: is the biggest step toward creating that once again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think most people know it, but
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  Speaker 4: it's nice to hear it still. I mean, yesterday I
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  Speaker 4: saw something on Twitter where Jason Kidd was talking about
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  Speaker 4: the WNBA or the NBA's expansion vote, and he kind
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: of went off about how great it used to be
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: to come through Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, and how Seattle
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  Speaker 4: is just such a great sports town and we all
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  Speaker 4: know that here, and Seattle's big enough to be able
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  Speaker 4: to support it. It just was obviously a couple knuckleheads
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  Speaker 4: that decided to, you know, not keep the team here,
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  Speaker 4: and so we've had a couple decades of not being
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  Speaker 4: able to have it. But right now it feels closer
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  Speaker 4: than ever to get the Sonics back. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it's a secret. I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: understand how big hoops are in Seattle, and it's just
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: the greater Seattle area.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's interesting because when I look back at
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  Speaker 6: the sports that were part of my life, it's basketball
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  Speaker 6: that was really the most. Like my dad and I
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: would sit and watch Sonics games all the time, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: my parents had moved from Phoenix, so he was also
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: a Suns fan and they would go. But then they
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: were members that it's called the Pro Club, I think,
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: and all the Sonics would go there.
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  Speaker 7: So he would come home.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: And he'd talk about how Slick Watts was sitting in
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: the hot tub and Slick Watts was complaining, Oh, nobody
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: respects me.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, he had all these fun.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: Stories of seeing these guys in everyday life, and to me,
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: they were all larger than life. And then fast forward,
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: I go to high school and I'm going to high
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: school with Fred Brown's kids, and you know, his youngest
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: son's one of my best friends, and they're playing against
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Donald wattson.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: So you're going to games and it's Slick and.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Donald or it's Slick and Fred sitting in the stands
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: with their stoic faces watching their kids play. And high
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: school basketball at our school was bigger than football. I
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: mean you had a packed gym every year and just
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: people going nuts. And our team won state my senior year,
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: and it was like the best experience to grow up
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: as a basketball fan here. And I would go if
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: there was sporting events that our groups would do.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: It was always going to Sonics games. I mean, I
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: just it was.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: It was an incredible thing and it was so heartbreaking
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: when we lost it. So to know that there's another
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: generation that's going to get to experience that, it's pretty cool.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's about damn time, no doubt about it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And I really do, I mean it is. It's not
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: even a negotiation, like you get the Sonics history back.
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: I mean, if here it would be.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: End of store. I don't Oklahoma said he doesn't even
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: want it. I mean, I think they've been tired of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: eighteen years sort of having that nagging like, oh, I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: really I do block it out and I'm not going
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to trade my thunder away, But it really does bother
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: me that Seattle hates us so much for taking this,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and so I mean, I don't even think they want
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the history. They've got an eighteen year history now that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: they can embrace and build upon, and we can make
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: that separation and all of that Sonic's history. That's the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: first step in all of this. I mean, like I said,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if we would that Seattle would
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: even accept the invitation back into the league without getting
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: its history back. That's the first thing that has to happen.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: And you can retire the numbers of the players who
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: played for you that haven't been retired yet joining us.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Next on the radio program, we're going to reach out
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to one of our own to hear his reaction, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be emotional about it at all.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFMU.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: You're breaking news this morning Seattle, as yeah, kind of
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: ripped up the old show sheet here today on the
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: news breaking that the.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: NBA Board of Governors has approved the expansion process of
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas and Seattle as being the two cities that
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: they will pursue expansion franchises with. We are not at
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the finish line that will likely occur in July, once
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the ownership groups have been assembled and can make their
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: best pitch to the NBA and the owners. But this
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: is a monster hurdle to clear. Only Vegas and Seattle
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: will be considered for expansion, and certainly this is a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: big news, a big step toward the Seattle SuperSonics returning
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: as an entity in our lives and joining us. Now
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: on the program, we get fresh reaction from one of
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: our own ian furness this right here on Chuck in Buck.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, how are you feeling good boys?
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Good morning, how are you guys?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Well, you've got a show today at Queen Anne Beer Hall.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be a celebratory mood out there?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, are you going to pour champagne over people's heads?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, how are you going to handle news like this?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure people really know what to do with
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it right now.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I'm kind of I think we're all going
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: through a lot of those same thoughts. It's listen, we
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: expected this to happen. It happened earlier in the day.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Although it's just a leak story. We haven't heard from
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: the commissioner yet. It'll be interested to hear from him.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: We'll carry that live I dring MJ Show at eleven thirty.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: But I think, you know, the big thing is this
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: is the most significant news and the biggest piece of
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: bringing back the Sonics that we've had since they left
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: in two thousand and eight. You know, we we thought
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: we were there. You know, I'll never forget doing the
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: show in I believe it was twenty thirteen, the years
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: run together. But when we got word that's had a
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Sacramento that Chris Hanson it was gonna buy the Sacramento
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Kings from the maloof Brothers, And we're thinking, all right,
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: here we go. But you know, deep down and we
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: went crazy that day, Chuck, We went nuts. We were
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: on the air and just you know, running around and
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: chasing stuff around and celebrating and and then you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: in the back of my mind, I remember the think
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: of the whole time, Well, it really doesn't solve the problem.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: The problem was still Key Arena, Like that was a
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: massive problem. Was a problem that second they opened that
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: dump in you know, in ninety five or ninety six,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: whenever it was. It just it didn't solve that problem.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: And I know Chris Hanson had a Sodo plan and
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: we're thinking, you know, I think wistfully that, yeah, that'll
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: be great. We'll build this arena and sodo once the
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: city council gets their act together. That of course never happened.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: And really you kind of look back on it, Chris
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Hansen and Steve Bomber when he left and bought the clippers.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: We have the building there, we lose.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I lost it for a second. You were talking
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: about Chris Hansen and your cutout for a little bit.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: I was just say, you know, that was all nice,
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: and but that wasn't real. This is real because of
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: one thing, and that's because we have a building climate
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Pledgerina makes this real. And you know, the one roof
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: group with Sam and and company that makes this real.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: And I think we're you know, like you said in
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: the open, bringing me in so I will be the
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: true celebration, pour the champagne on everyone's head. But today, yeah,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: we'll be at queen An Beer Hall and we're gonna
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: have a little however you want to celebrate, that's a
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: you thing, and you do you and celebrate if you
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: want to, come have a pint with Softy and or
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: me beforehand, and then away we go but I think
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: this is a this is easily it's I'm not not
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: saying anythingbody does. No, this is the biggest piece of
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: news and bringing the NBA back that we've had since
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: two thousand and eight.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So instead of pouring champagne over people's heads, we'll just
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: pour beer down our throats to celebrate. That's what it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: sounds like.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, I I've got no problem with that. I fully
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: endorsement that.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Just yeah, full blown celebration is where you waste it
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: on each other throat. This is just halfway there, so
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you just start by drinking it. That makes sense on
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: hundred percent with you on that ear. How excited are you?
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: I mean, are you still tempering your excitement? I mean
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: to some degree, you're saying, hey, this is good news,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: best news that we've had in as far as this
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: direction of where we're wanting to go. But are you
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: still pulling back on the reins a little bit, not
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: letting yourself get too crazy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: I think it's happening, and I think it's going to
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: happen in twenty twenty eight. I want to hear the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Commissioner say it out of his own mouth today that
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: we're moving ahead and then you know, obviously July is
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: the big thing. But I listen, I'm confident there's you guys, listen,
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: none of us are in big business. We're just knucklehead
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: DIA people. But like to think for a second that
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: there haven't been backroom discussions over the last few years, Well,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: I don't know since the day they put a shovel
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: in the ground and started, you know, making climate Pledgerina
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: what it is today would be blindly naive. And I'm
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: saying with the NBA from day one, you know, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: don't think Todd light WICKI has done an interview since
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: he got hired in which he hasn't been asked about
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: the NBA coming back, And so we this has been
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: something that's been in the words the group, and again
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: I believe it'll be you know, the one roof group
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: with Sam all the way leaving the charge and whatever
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: other investors are involved. That group has done everything the
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: right way. But to think that they haven't had discussions,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: I always laugh when I hear, you know, oh, we'll
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: begin discussions. Really, you haven't had any discussions Adam Silver
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: with really because that's I'm not talking governor, and you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: mayors and stuff. I'm talking about the people that matter
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: they have. This is way down. This is very far
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: down the road, and it has been for a while.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: I'll just go back, you know, when when they have
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: the season ticket drive for the Kraken on that one
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: day and thirty two thousand people put real money down
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: five hundred dollars a piece for season tickets. It was
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: we had David Bonderman in studio and Jerry Bruckheimer. We
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: taped an interview with them, like at eight o'clock that night.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: We ran the next day and the late David Bonnerman,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget it, guys. He was I asked him
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: point blank about the NBA, and I know we've looked
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: for this interview a zillion times. Hopefully we can find
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: it again someday because it was great. He just said, no,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: that is the plan. The plan from day one, from
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: David Bonnerman's mouth to you guys, was to bring the
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: NBA back as well as have the NHL here. So
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: this has been in the works for a long time.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: David Bonnerman's a former owner minority owner the Celtics. He
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: was deeply involved and rooted in the NBA. So this
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: has always been the plan. It feels more real today
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: and more likely today than ever before, and so today
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: is a day definitely to celebrate. We're one step closer
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: to to get in the NBA back here for sure.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, all right, excellent stuff. So what are we
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: going to do on this specialty radio show later on today?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Do you do we have a master plan? Or are
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you just winging it out there?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: We're at this point we're winging it because, you know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: we'll wait and see what the commissioner says and figure
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: out guests and all that. It's you know, we're all
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: you know how it works in radio. We're all doing
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: the same thing right now. Or I'll chase in. Okay,
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: who can we get on today? I think more than anything,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: we want to hear the reaction of our listeners. I mean,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: this is I will just I don't want to dampen
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: the mood I've been. I don't know what you guys
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: have got on your text line during you know, six
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: to ten in the morning. I've been a little surprised
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: since this all came out in the last couple of
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: weeks that this meeting was going to happen. The Board
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: of Governors and this vote. I've been really surprised by
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: the lack of enthusiasm and frankly downright negativity on just
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: a text line and even from some of our talk
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: packs that we've gotten. And I understand the frustration people
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: have with the NBA. You trust me on this as
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: someone who has a son that's now grown as an adult,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: and you know, we've been here for twenty years and
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: he didn't have the NBA growing up, and he's a
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: huge basketball kid. I'll never forgive the NBA. I mean,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: forgiveness is something I can never give them. But I
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: can't happily accept the team coming back and be thrilled
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: for that. But there's a lot of people you know
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: that that are doing the I don't care about the
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: NBA thing right now. I think that will go away quickly,
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: you know, once we see a ball go up in
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: the air. I think it'll go quite quickly over the
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: next two years as the process begins and we start
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: seeing people hire a GM and things like that. Once
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: the team is officially announced in the summer. But I'll
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: be interested to see what the what the reaction is
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: from our listeners today because it's been it's been kind
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: of kind of a doubhur to be honest with you
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: for a while, and I understand why. I mean, Softie
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: still won't go to Starbucks, and there's people in our
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: market that still hate the NBA with a passion. So
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I think that'll change, but it might take a little
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: bit of time and some some healing needs to happen,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Can we expect to see you, you know, cracking out
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: your old Sickma jersey or you know Spencer Haywood jerseys
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: out there?
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: Well, since I would have been a wee child, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: don't think those are going to fit. I do think
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: somewhere in our garage my mom cleaning out something in
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: the house a while ago. I do have like a
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Sonic seventy nine championship T shirt that is somehow still
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: holding together, but that wouldn't that wouldn't even come close
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: to fitting any of your either Bucky's youngsters or even
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: young Palmer there. It's I think I'll refrain from that
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: because I don't think people need to see that on
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: my simply Seattle Sonics. Though what are you on today?
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: They'll forget sure? OK, very good, I like it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I like it all right, Thank you for jumping on
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: with us for a couple of minutes. Really appreciate it and.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Have fun with it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Boy, let's do it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Enjoy all right?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah forness joining us right here on. Checking back in
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the morning and he'll be on from Queen Anne Beer
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Hall at one o'clock and again join him. Celebrate at
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: your own pace. However you want to handle this news.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I think that it's just a step toward certainty. Quite frankly,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I think it's happening. I think the Sonics are coming back.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: But I certainly do understand that we're not at the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: finish line. I mean, Chris Brussard said, the fifteen yard
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: line is where we're at right now, so in the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: red zone.
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: But still you know, doesn't have the ball.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: We're fine, Yes, still not first and goal, and yes
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you could be intercepted, there's no question about it. That
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't as encouraging as I was hoping to hear from him.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking that the five but fifteen
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: yard line is realistic. It's still a challenge to get
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: into the end zone. So we'll continue to discuss it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Do you want to hear from you? At four nine,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: four five to one on the text line, also were
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: going to try to create some time to take some
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: calls a little bit later on, because it really is
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: this story is about Settle Seattle sports fans more so
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: than anything else. But we'll get to your text next
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: on Sports Radio ninety three point three KJRFM. Official press
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: release from the National Basketball Association headline NBA Board of
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Governors approves exploration of expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: The memo reads, the NBA Board of Governors today March
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty twenty six, voted to authorize the league
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to formally explore potential expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: As part of this press the NBA has engaged investment
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: bank PJT Partners as a strategic advisor to evaluate prospective markets,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: ownership groups, arena infrastructure, and the broader economic implications of expansion. Quote.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Today's vote reflects our board's interest in exploring potential expansion
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas and Seattle, two markets with a long
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: history of support for NBA basketball, said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He added, we look forward to taking this next step
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and engaging with interested parties. The NBA will provide additional
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: updates as the process progresses. End of memo. So that's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: our story. It broke at about seven forty five here
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: this morning, and the rest of our show has been
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: spent reacting to it, and we're curious, I really am
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: curious what the reactions are from Seattle sports fans. We're
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: going to try to take some phone calls before the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: end of the show. We'll see if we can work
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that out. But we can certainly read some text from
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the text line Ashley, So four nine four five one.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: What do we got?
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, we've got it's time to right or wrong
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: and bring home our team for all the fans, like
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: Chris the Sonic guy, bring them back. Yeah, Jeremy says,
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: I'm in the same boat as I and I got
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: a little misty when I heard the announcement. But I
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: am still angry with the NBA for the last eighteen years,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: which is understandable.
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: I can get that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's room for both emotions. Certainly. I
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: think there are some people that have have sworn off
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the league, and I think there are actually some of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: those some people that will honor that. Yeah, when the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: time comes, Mark for sure. But I do think that
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: once you see the uniform, and once the players and
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: once you start hearing about games at Climate Pledge Arena
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and watching them on tea that I think for a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: lot of fans that appetite will resurface. But you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: we're not here to tell you what to think or
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: how to feel, or whatever the case may be. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: think that you can be both still angry and yet
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: excited at the same time. And I think that's where
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Ian's at, Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: And That's where I'm at, Like there's excitement in there
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: now because this happened, but then there's still yeah, some yeah,
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: hurt feelings and I'm I'm still waiting. And then once
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: they fully announce it, I mean, I'll run around screaming
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: my yeah.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how people are expected to react
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: to this, especially a group that I mean, I got
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: a week end with a few buddies and a couple
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of them live in Vegas. I'm I'm interested to like
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: get their opinion on how they feel yeah about this,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: but here in Seattle, I mean, this is the normal
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: feeling yep, you know that usually gets associated with a
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: story like that. And look, the NBA has earned that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: What else we got, We've got I'm excited. This is
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  Speaker 7: from the two five to three.
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  Speaker 6: I'm excited, but I don't believe it until I see
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  Speaker 6: the Sonics logo at Climate pledg Aina or on the
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  Speaker 6: schedule we've got from the two oh six.
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  Speaker 7: Bring the boys home, Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there are just some people that are
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  Speaker 1: just like No, I am a basketball fan first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: I am an NBA fan. I have been waiting for
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  Speaker 1: this announcement for eighteen years. And you can feel whatever emotion,
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  Speaker 1: if that's tears for you or if that's cause for celebration,
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  Speaker 1: I think you can do that too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's absolutely true. We had Why on
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  Speaker 6: earth did the NBA have to take so long?
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  Speaker 7: Very valid question.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that's the thing is when they left, I
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: don't think any one of us thought it was going
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  Speaker 6: to be this long until we were in this place.
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  Speaker 6: And then we're still till twenty twenty eight. I mean
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: that'll be twenty years.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: That is a crime, twenty years without the NBA in
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a place that's always wanted it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see, you can only have one Sonics comeback or Mariners.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Are the World Series chances in twenty twenty six don't
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: do us. Yeah that's not fair. Yeah, that's not fair. Horrible,
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: somebody says, I don't care. And I also don't know
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: anyone who watches the NBA anymore. Oh so there are
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  Speaker 6: some Yeah, there are some people that are still not
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  Speaker 6: buying in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I went way from the NBA to some
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: degree when they when they left, and yet there's no
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: part of me that's going to harbor and to each
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: his own because I'm excited about being able to take
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: my kids to a Sonics game. Yeah, the the idea,
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  Speaker 4: it's a different sporting event. The NBA is different than
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: going to a Mariner's game. It's different going to a
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: football game. It's there's something about it that's different, the atmosphere,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things about it that are different.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not going to allow my irritation or anger
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  Speaker 4: to take away from, you know, my kids possible enjoyment.
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  Speaker 1: I think that if anything else, and we'll try to
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: get to more of your feedback here as the in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: our final hour, but I think that there was just
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: a hole in Seattle sports and that void had not
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: been filled, and so, if anything, the return of the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Sonics makes it feel whole again, makes Seattle, the Seattle
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: sports landscape feel whole again, and and with an extra
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: incentive because we didn't have the Kraken before, and so
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: now they come back, and now not only has the
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: hole been filled, but we have extra stuff too here
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  Speaker 1: in Seattle. But I don't know if it would have
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: ever felt completely right to the Seattle sports fan without
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the Sonics here. And if you've sworn off the league,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and if you've sworn off Adam Silver and you you
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: know you still curse the name David Stern. Okay, you
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: are entitled to that. But still I think that Seattle
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: is better off having their basketball team back, and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like that is going to happen. It finally looks
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: like it is going to happen. Whether it took four years,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: four months, eighteen years, whatever, it does look like the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Sonics are returning. We'll get the reaction from some more
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  Speaker 1: here in town. Plus we'll try to get to some
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  Speaker 1: of your text and phone calls in our next segment
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's Chucking Box Sports Radio ninety three point
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