David Stern gave his “State of the NBA union” speech regarding the future of the Seattle, Portland and New Orleans/Oklahoma City franchises and it wasn’t pretty. Obviously everything being said is posturing and negotiation tactics but just once I’d like an owner and/or a league to recognize that it’s really not that much of a privilege to having a team call a city its home. Should the taxpayers of Seattle really feel obliged to pay for a stadium that will generate more revenue for the chairman of Starbucks? My girlfriend drinks three $5 cups of coffee a day from Starbucks – that’s $105 a week and $5,460 a year. If Howard Schultz can’t figure out a way to come up with a more equitable public-private financing for any new facility, well, maybe Seattle shouldn’t have a team. And I don’t think the folks in the Emerald City would really care that much. After all, the NBA’s going the way of the NHL and no one seems to miss hockey that much these days…
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