Okay, sometimes we wonder if we’re being a little blase about the possibility of the Seattle Sonics blowing town for (as so many now expect) either Oklahoma City or at least some place well to the south and east of Puget Sound. Might the loss, in fact, be a real blow to Seattle?
Our core thought has been that, while the Sonics are an asset to Seattle, their departure would not likely hurt much. So we were more than a little hooked by the headline in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “A city with no Sonics: How life will change if NBA leaves Seattle,” by reporter Mike Lewis.
How life will change . . . okay, let’s discuss that. How would life change?
Conclusion: Not much, except that there wouldn’t be the Sonics to talk about around the water cooler. Maybe some marginal loss of civic pride, though even that point is uncertain, Seattle having, shall we say, a variety of other components of civic pride as well. But read the piece for yourself. (And check out the wonderful graphic with the deflated basketball and the keeled-over Space Needle, even though it doesn’t quite match the article’s conclusions.)
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