The Sports Transmission of Seattle Amara does not mention the Thunder NBA championship
Apparently time does not heal all the wounds.
The Thunder won the first NBA championship of the franchise since he moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City on Sunday evening with a game of Game 7 over the Indiana Pacers.
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For a sports broadcast of Seattle, this was not a news that is worth celebrating – or even the news.
The sports director of Fox 13 Aaron Levine concluded a 30 -minute sports show on Sunday evening with a note on the result of the game 7.
“Finally tonight, unfortunately, the Indian Pacers lose the game 7 of the NBA finals,” said Levine while the show signed. “Big game for the sounders tomorrow! See you in Lumen Field.”
It was that. There have been no highlights, no mention of the score or a championship and no expression of the words “Oklahoma City Thunder”.
Just to hammer at home that the absence of coverage was not just an oversight, Levine tweeted the video of her signature with a caption:
Store bitter, Seattle.
Seattle fans – two seen here during a 2024 Gonzaga match – remain still in their return desire for the Sonics. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
(Steph Chambers via Getty Images)
Why so bitter?
In 2008, Seattle – and the culture of basketball as a whole, to tell the truth – was robbed of Supersonics, one of the coolest franchises of the NBA. Seattle worshiped Sonics, a franchise that had resided in the city for 41 years, produced an NBA championship in 1979 and one of the iconic teams of the 90s with Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton.
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In 2006, Clay Bennett, a native of Oklahoma City, led a group of ownership to buy the Sonsics from the Seattle and Starbucks Titan Howard Schultz business. Bennett promised at the time of purchase to make an effort in good faith to keep the Sonsics in Seattle among the negotiations for a new arena.
The comments of the partner owned by Bennett and the Okc Energy Aubrey McClendon magnate in 2007 to an Oklahoma document declared differently.
“But we did not buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here,” McClendon said at the Journal-Record.
The then commissioner NBA David Stern has fined McClendon $ 250,000 for those comments. Months later, Stern and 27 of the 29 colleagues owner of Bennett’s NBA joined Bennett to clarify the road to the Sonics to move to Bennett’s hometown.
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Since then they have been the thunder of Oklahoma City. And now they are champions of the NBA. And Seattle remains without NBA franchise.
Schultz, meanwhile, calls the sale of the Sonic to the Bennett group “one of the greatest regrets of my professional life”.
So forgive Seattle’s people from the place if they do not join the celebration of thunder – or recognizing at all.