Post-Sonics Watch
Feeling lost without your Seattle SuperSonics? Seattle-area NBA fans face their first season without an NBA team in 41 years. Primarily, our coverage here will focus on the City of Seattle’s attempt to bring the NBA back to Seattle. But we also will provide updates on the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and area players plying their trade for other teams in the NBA.

Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.

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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Monday, December 29th, 2008
Posted by John Wallingford @ 05:20:13 pm

Those heartless wags at ESPN sure had some fun with the latest dose of disgrace to strike our hapless Thunder.

That occurred Saturday night, when 3-27 Oklahoma City hobbled into the nation's capital for a back-alley showdown with the 4-23 Washington Wizards.

The Wizards, bless their souls, were the one team in the NBA doing their best to make the Thunder feel hopeful about its league-worst situation.

So what if the Okies had just three victories? Why, that's only one fewer than the Wizards had before tipoff Saturday.

Going strictly by the teams' respective records, the game marked the second worst matchup in NBA history.

Rising to the occasion, the SportsCenter sages introduced the game highlights variously as the "coal in your Christmas stocking" and the "Second Worst Show on Earth." The producers trimmed out the color and dressed up the highlights with a vintage Charlie Chaplin effect.

It was a feast for the senses.

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