Most exciting young core in the nba and move them the same way Seattle moved after they drafted Russ and KD
BUSean
sucks to suck
lopea182
I will never understand why tax payer dollars should pay for >50% of the funds to build facilities for professional sports teams privately-owned by *billionaires*
AR15_He_Is_Him
Booo, booo this team
RVAIsTheGreatest
It ain’t gonna happen. The idea fans are gonna OK this when the stadium the Thunder play in now isn’t even in bad condition….not happening.
Somaninim0
Introducing The Las Vegas ThunderSonics!
Fxp1706
the taxpayers shouldn’t be footing that bill. okc needs to open up ownership and find a wealthy donor to help fund the cost of the new arena.
FlowVoids
Play the Bill Simmons quote.
dkdoki
OKC fans: we have one of the richest ownership groups and its a whole new era!
Thunder: pay for the stadium or else…
Lol what a joke.
coacoanutbenjamn
Billionaires should pay for their own fucking stadium
craigslistaddict
“now it’s the thunder” as if it’s not the same team/owner
SJ966
If they do give them public money they should include a rebrand clause. If Miami can mandate that the Marlins ditch their Florida branding surely Oklahoma can tell the Thunder to ditch their clip art logo.
beanandcheesepoots
What are you gonna do? Move the team to Seattle?
frizo
Welcome to the full Clay Bennett experience, OKC.
FreshFromTheNut
ITS BEEN 15 YEARS ALREADY!!!
Ragnar_OK
If the public pays for the arena, then it’s a public work akin to a park or a library and therefor events there will be free to attend, right? right??
MDMitchell2
How fun would it be to have a city owned team? Residents get to vote on a team owner and GM? All profits from the team get sent back to the city? All the players and team staff are technically city employees.
whofusesthemusic
nice that Seattle will get a team either way in 2-3 years 🙂
milkhotelbitches
I’m fine with the taxpayers paying for the stadium if the taxpayers then own the team and control the profits the team brings in.
The biggest open secret in all of sports is that billionaire owners are completely unnecessary. We don’t need them. Sport doesn’t need them. They contribute nothing.
LostThePassword34
It’s almost like Clay Bennett is a gigantic piece of shit or something
Vrost
Sure so long as owners are willing to split a reasonable percentage of profits until the cost and some interest is paid off. Hmm where have I heard that idea before?
Jagermeister4
To me a billionaire owner asking the city to pay for their stadium is like the NFL paying its superbowl performers nothing and having the back up dancers work for “exposure.”
Yeah maybe your right, maybe that dancer is just glad to get the “exposure.” But is that fair? NFL making 4 mil selling a 30 second ad and selling tickets for 100k a seat, while the dancer gets paid nothing?
Yeah the city will get some extra revenue from a new arena being built, but isn’t that how business is supposed to work? You build a new arena and can sell tickets at higher prices, city sees a cut of tax revenue, everybody wins? But because your business is really successfull you want taxpayers to give you a kickback on top of all that profit? Its pure greed and exactly what’s wrong with the world today, billionaire not satisfied with being a billionaire and needs to exploit the lower class more.
pimpron18
The only thing I can think of being reasonable is taxpayers paying for the land it’s going on.
rawonionbreath
The arena is supposed to cost $900 million and the team is going to contribute $50 million. How helpful of them. Meanwhile the existing one just became old enough to have a beer.
Purganis
Millionaires and Billionaires asking for handouts.
And then they wonder why we detest them…
NYGNYKNYYNYRthinker
Team is offering to pay $50M out of a minimum $900M lol i guess the lack of shame is one of the reasons these guys are so rich.
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Give them back. Perfect payback
Most exciting young core in the nba and move them the same way Seattle moved after they drafted Russ and KD
sucks to suck
I will never understand why tax payer dollars should pay for >50% of the funds to build facilities for professional sports teams privately-owned by *billionaires*
Booo, booo this team
It ain’t gonna happen. The idea fans are gonna OK this when the stadium the Thunder play in now isn’t even in bad condition….not happening.
Introducing The Las Vegas ThunderSonics!
the taxpayers shouldn’t be footing that bill. okc needs to open up ownership and find a wealthy donor to help fund the cost of the new arena.
Play the Bill Simmons quote.
OKC fans: we have one of the richest ownership groups and its a whole new era!
Thunder: pay for the stadium or else…
Lol what a joke.
Billionaires should pay for their own fucking stadium
“now it’s the thunder” as if it’s not the same team/owner
If they do give them public money they should include a rebrand clause. If Miami can mandate that the Marlins ditch their Florida branding surely Oklahoma can tell the Thunder to ditch their clip art logo.
What are you gonna do? Move the team to Seattle?
Welcome to the full Clay Bennett experience, OKC.
ITS BEEN 15 YEARS ALREADY!!!
If the public pays for the arena, then it’s a public work akin to a park or a library and therefor events there will be free to attend, right? right??
How fun would it be to have a city owned team? Residents get to vote on a team owner and GM? All profits from the team get sent back to the city? All the players and team staff are technically city employees.
nice that Seattle will get a team either way in 2-3 years 🙂
I’m fine with the taxpayers paying for the stadium if the taxpayers then own the team and control the profits the team brings in.
The biggest open secret in all of sports is that billionaire owners are completely unnecessary. We don’t need them. Sport doesn’t need them. They contribute nothing.
It’s almost like Clay Bennett is a gigantic piece of shit or something
Sure so long as owners are willing to split a reasonable percentage of profits until the cost and some interest is paid off. Hmm where have I heard that idea before?
To me a billionaire owner asking the city to pay for their stadium is like the NFL paying its superbowl performers nothing and having the back up dancers work for “exposure.”
Yeah maybe your right, maybe that dancer is just glad to get the “exposure.” But is that fair? NFL making 4 mil selling a 30 second ad and selling tickets for 100k a seat, while the dancer gets paid nothing?
Yeah the city will get some extra revenue from a new arena being built, but isn’t that how business is supposed to work? You build a new arena and can sell tickets at higher prices, city sees a cut of tax revenue, everybody wins? But because your business is really successfull you want taxpayers to give you a kickback on top of all that profit? Its pure greed and exactly what’s wrong with the world today, billionaire not satisfied with being a billionaire and needs to exploit the lower class more.
The only thing I can think of being reasonable is taxpayers paying for the land it’s going on.
The arena is supposed to cost $900 million and the team is going to contribute $50 million. How helpful of them. Meanwhile the existing one just became old enough to have a beer.
Millionaires and Billionaires asking for handouts.
And then they wonder why we detest them…
Team is offering to pay $50M out of a minimum $900M lol i guess the lack of shame is one of the reasons these guys are so rich.