Why no major-league teams in the city?? (Oklahoma City: house, construction)

[happytown]

Originally Posted by Sneaks88

What i was saying in the first place was that i dont think OKC is going to lure very many top tier players. While Kobe said he wanted to be traded to a winning team, teams like SA and DET or ORL were never even considered in. The only teams that were even considered were Dallas Chicago and the LA Clippers. Obviously other things come into play (cap room, trading this guy for that guy, etc.) but it was well known from the start that Kobe wasnt considering any mid-market teams. but Kobe is married with kids. Tall single millionaire athletes in there early 20's might not find Oklahoma City appealing.

What are you trying to prove?? That OKC sucks so players wont move here??
Such a ****** pathetic joke.

Now people finally except that OKC will be getting a NBA team.........NOW.. Lets try to figure out the worst possible scenario. This bashing deserves to be in the sonic forums and not debated on the OKC forum.

[happytown]

By the way sneaks ....Dont call yourself an OKCITIAN...Because NO OKCITIAN would say the **** that you say. Peroid. Seattle troll alert. Seen it TOO MANY TIMES.

Also Sneaks...I love my Tulsa friends. But when you say IMO like Tulsa better...Please dude. Dont insult my intelligence. Such a joke.

Just thought I would add this....
NBA forms Sonics relocation committee
http://newsok.com/article/3175569
ESPN - Sonics tell NBA of intent to move SuperSonics to Oklahoma City - NBA

[Sneaks88]

Originally Posted by happytown

By the way sneaks ....Dont call yourself an OKCITIAN...Because NO OKCITIAN would say the **** that you say. Peroid. Seattle troll alert. Seen it TOO MANY TIMES.

Also Sneaks...I love my Tulsa friends. But when you say IMO like Tulsa better...Please dude. Dont insult my intelligence. Such a joke.

Just thought I would add this....
NBA forms Sonics relocation committee
http://newsok.com/article/3175569
ESPN - Sonics tell NBA of intent to move SuperSonics to Oklahoma City - NBA

WOW. You are getting a little too defensive. I'm entitled to have my opinion just like you are. If u had actually READ my response to your post or even checked out some of the other posts i have left in this forum you will see I'm far from a "seattle troll". I'm rooted in this city just like anyone else. I was in Seattle once. Didn't care for it. And I simply said that Tulsa has more of a vibe and feel to it than oklahoma city.

You can spew out as many statistics and call me an idiot all you want. I'm just putting my perspective on this situation. i hope that the sonics do come here. but i'm not delusional and i dont think that forcibly relocating a team to OKC is going to make us the next big city.

[happytown]

Originally Posted by Sneaks88

WOW. You are getting a little too defensive. I'm entitled to have my opinion just like you are. If u had actually READ my response to your post or even checked out some of the other posts i have left in this forum you will see I'm far from a "seattle troll". I'm rooted in this city just like anyone else. I was in Seattle once. Didn't care for it. And I simply said that Tulsa has more of a vibe and feel to it than oklahoma city.

You can spew out as many statistics and call me an idiot all you want. I'm just putting my perspective on this situation. i hope that the sonics do come here. but i'm not delusional and i dont think that forcibly relocating a team to OKC is going to make us the next big city.

WOW. Your exactly right...It WOULD be delusional to think that OKC would be the next BIG city. Who would think OKC would be the next great and big time city?

BUT...It will make OKC a 2nd tier city...So it is a huge deal and elevates OKC to another status whether you want to believe it or not. Its the MAJOR LEAGUES. OKC would be in the realm of cities like Memphis or Charlotte.

Bottom line...Bringing in the NBA to OKC/Oklahoma will put Oklahoma on the map on a regular basis. Its a VERY BIG DEAL. You mention "forcibly relocating a team"...You sure do sound like a true blue OKCITIAN with that reply. Its belittling the situation. If OKC gets the team it would be a fair/square deal.

OKC may not end up getting the team at all!

Bringing up your opinion if Tulsa or OKC is better is absolutely silly considering this thread is about OKC getting an NBA team. PERIOD. There just wasnt a purpose for it...Do you understand that? But of course you are entitled to say whatever your heart desires, even if it causes you the need to compare sister cities for absolutley no apparent reason at all. Okay.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by bjohns

I just moved to Oklahoma City and have found it a vibrant, beautiful city but ma wondering why a city it's size has no teams in any of the major-leagues like MLB, NBA. NFL, NHL??

Oklahoma City was put on the World-National Map by hosting the Hornets , all of the sudden becoming a Marginal Third Tier Major American City. Now with the Sonics coming to town "Next Season" Oklahoma Is A Third Tier City" I hear people talking about Phoenix and Oklahoma City being the "Boring-i-est
City in America.....well that's a good thing , at lease people from all across America Are Talking About Oklahoma City "Instead" of NOT KNOWING THAT IT EVEN EXIST.

[okcpulse]

I think we need to slow down and think things over before we begin labeling cities. Right now, the argument is over OKC being a cultural city with diversity. The question is... is OKC cultural or not?

There are a million ways to approach that question, and a million different answers. Here is my approach... opinions are opinions and facts are facts. Fact will ALWAYS override opinion, and perception is nothing more than an opinion. But the problem with opinions is that they are of little value if there is not a solid foundation based on facts.

Let's take Tulsa vs. OKC for example. Some people see Tulsa as more diverse than OKC. Others see it opposite. But what are the facts? Oklahoma City has the state's largest Asian-American population, the state's largest African-American population, the state's largest Hispanic-American population, and the state's second largest Native American population. So diversity is taken care of. Oklahoma City is more diverse than Tulsa is. But the national perception is that Oklahoma City is a white cultural backwater full of bible-thumpers. But the American mentality is such that most people are not interested in facts, the follow the media like sheep. How many Americans pick up an encyclopedia and start thumbing through all 50 states in a quest for facts? Not many.

Now let's take a look at culture. People can get confused on what defines culture. Culture consists of ethnic groups that celebrate strong traditions from their nationalities. It is often celebrated in the way of festivals hosted in the city, the restaurants that serve ethnic foods and how active ethnic communities are in a city. However, most believe that a city's culture is guaged on other amenities that make a city cultural, such as the local music scene, whether a city has symphonies, art museums and theaters that display art films, and the local culinary scene. But art is art, and symphonies are a form of the arts, yet Oklahoma City has both. Our local music scene is definitely maturing, and we have a long history with jazz. Our culinary scene is just as good as most cities, with the exception of the giant burghs of Chicago, L.A., New York and Houston. And yet, Americans don't have a clue about the thriving scenes in Oklahoma City because they simply don't bother to check. Plus, it's easy to pass judgement on a city you never heard of, or been to, except what you've heard on TV, or read about in some smug national paper.

Some have been to the San Diego Zoo AND the Oklahoma City Zoo, and they affirm that the Oklahoma City Zoo is better in what they have to offer zoo patrons for viewing and learning about species, the quality of exhibits and education about the natural environment. But Fodor's will tell you to go to the San Diego Zoo because it is San Diego.

It is also just as easy for someone not from Oklahoma City that passes through or lives here for a few months to cling to nothing but the negatives, giving then a grim and ugly picture of OKC. None of us can make people like OKC, especially when their expectations of a city must meet or exceed L.A., San Fransisco or Chicago.

Long term viability of a pro-sports franchise can go either way. In Oklahoma City, it's not a matter of novelty, it's a matter of loyalty. Loyalty is what keeps the CHL Blazers playing in OKC. But the team must earn the cities loyalty by connecting with the community. That is what the Blazers did. If Oklahoma City's team goes to the playoffs in the first or second season, the loyalty will be engraved in the community fabric. Or, the team can bomb from the start and remain withdrawn. Only then will I doubt the team's future in Oklahoma City.

It is what it is.

[peggydavis]

Very well said, okcpulse.

[cindycat]

I was watching the news on a Seattle station last night. This won't be an exact quote because I didn't write it down and I've been unable to find it on the website this morning. I know it's just word games that they have to play, but it still makes an old Okie wanna go grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! After a report on the NBA meeting in OKC yesterday, one of the sportscasters said OKC got ready for the meeting by dusting off the arena, raking the streets and sweeping away the tumbleweeds.

[Nameless]

Has anyone told Seattle yet that no one outside the Pacific Northwest gives a care about them? We already know we're an unknown place here in Oklahoma. Seattle needs to get off their pedestal and realize just how little they matter to anyway east of the Cascades. Do I think about how great Seattle is on a daily basis? No, they're 2,000 miles away, I could care less about what they're doing. Like I said, we already known no one cares about us, Seattle needs to realize the same.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by cindycat

I was watching the news on a Seattle station last night. This won't be an exact quote because I didn't write it down and I've been unable to find it on the website this morning. I know it's just word games that they have to play, but it still makes an old Okie wanna go grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! After a report on the NBA meeting in OKC yesterday, one of the sportscasters said OKC got ready for the meeting by dusting off the arena, raking the streets and sweeping away the tumbleweeds.

First, I think that's funny, and second, hopefully that will keep too many people from moving here. If you REALLY want to hear your State insulted, you should try being from New Jersey.