NBA Marketing the Blazers to Seattle?

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I feel bad for Sonics fans, so I'm happy adding them to the flock

as long as they don’t start thinking of moving the Blazers to Seattle

by Decaf on Jun 28, 2009 7:25 PM PDT reply actions

If I was a Sonic fan

I wouldn’t go anywhere near this game. There is blame enough to go around in the Seattle vs Bennett debate, but die hard Sonic fans will not be healed enough to bear watching the Blazers as the “home” team at Key, and I don’t blame them.

by The Penguin on Jun 28, 2009 8:00 PM PDT reply actions

However

Enough of us will make the trip so as not to completely embarrass the NBA.

by The Penguin on Jun 28, 2009 8:01 PM PDT up reply actions

I know I will!

Phoenix is still a fun team to see… and you know, Portland is Portland.

But regardless, Seattle is fun for day trips. Gotta rep Portland by wearing Blazers gear. Whenever I go up there I wear Portland stuff. I get some weird looks.

by CaptainSexyJacob on Jun 28, 2009 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions

This is great for the Blazers marketing

We can claim to be a large city that encompasses several states and millions of millions of people. Does OKC still have TV rights in Seattle and such.

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by Garden of ODEN on Jun 28, 2009 9:49 PM PDT reply actions

NBA will never be able to market the Blazers in both Portland and Seattle.

They should quit these pathetic attempts at pacifying seattlites, and instead work on bringing the NBA back to Seattle permanently (preferably not involving the blazers moving.)

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by premthegrem on Jun 28, 2009 10:04 PM PDT reply actions

Most Sonics fans in Seattle won't go near this game...

I was just up in Seattle this past week and I was listening to a sports station when this was announced and the radio guys and every person that called in said they would never go to this game. They said it wasn’t because is was the Blazers, considering most people don’t mind the fact that the Blazers have Roy, Webster, and Mr. Sonic, but because they think it’s way too soon and they aren’t gonna support the NBA in Seattle unless it’s the Sonics. And personally, I don’t blame them I would be saying the same things if I had my team stolen from me.

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by BlazerFan88 on Jun 28, 2009 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

Exactly. It's just too soon.

It’s a shame that some Blazer fans have to disrespect Sonic fans. If the tables were reversed (and they may be someday), Portland would feel the same way. Remember the Sonics moved not because it lacked fan support. They moved because an owner stole the team. Some say the arena was a bad deal, but these owners were from Oklahoma and they bought the team to move them – period. Now that this precedent has been set, owners now have more power to relocate. That means Paul Allen has license to simply relocate the Blazers to Seattle. If fact, as far as I know, there is nothing holding him here. Even the lease to the Rose Garden is to himself (Vulcan). I’m not saying he would or if that is even true that nothing is holding him here, but I am saying that the concept of “cultural history” has just been ignored by the NBA and teams are up for relocation at the owners will. In fact, if the Blazers hadn’t experienced an amazing turnaround from the Jail Blazers era they would primed to move right now.

by Sonic Boom on Jun 29, 2009 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions

This is a test by the NBA, and Blazer marketing

I live in Seattle, grew up in Portland, and I am a Blazer fan. Always will be. It is being debated on the sports talk shows and it is 50/50 support by fans. Those who say they will never go to a game as a protest to the NBA, half of them will come in disguise, trench coat, sunglasses, passing money to strangers with tickets in dark alleys. They will never admit they were there. But if you miss the NBA drug, you got to get your fix.

Main point Seattle fans, if you want the NBA back in town, you better show the NBA that they have your fan support. If you don’t show up, then your not interested, and you can forget about getting a team.

Plenty of room to hop on the Blazer Love train.

by blazerbill on Jun 28, 2009 11:57 PM PDT reply actions

That's kind of a good point.

If enough Seattle fans show up wearing Sonics gear (I’ll be wearing a Kemp jersey to the game) it would show the NBA that Seattle fans still love the game. Even if they show up to boo the entire thing. If the arena looks half empty Stern will just claim the city doesn’t care about basketball anymore.

by Bskey on Jun 29, 2009 4:21 AM PDT up reply actions

That's just stupid.

by Sonic Boom on Jun 29, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions

if the NBA moved the Blazers

There would be a bigger fit by portlanders then the one seattlelites had. At this present moment portland looks to be a contender for lets say the next 6 to maybe 10 years. If they moved a championship contender with one of the best attendences in the league somehwere else (Seattle) David stern would be assinated.
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and Sorry Sonic fans u can always comee when we play the thunder and boo everyone, I really enjoy it, its like how yankee fans come to mariner red sox games just to boo the red sox lol.

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by flynn4blazers on Jun 29, 2009 12:19 PM PDT reply actions