Supersonic: Finding a Way For What They Want To Say
In the eighteen years since the SuperSonics last set foot on an NBA court, the wound that was left behind has calloused but is still gentle to the touch. The Seattle Storm became a staple in the WNBA, winning four league titles with the help of some legends of the game. The Seattle SuperHawks, an independent basketball team, arrived to provide a pathway to players for the G League or international leagues. The Huskies of Washington and the Red Birds of Seattle even had their moments of March magic.
Yet, with all of this hardcourt happiness, the phantom pain of having an NBA team be forcibly removed from you still lingers. Even if recent events may make this pain subside.
On March 25th, the NBA Board of Governors voted on exploring potential expansion bids for Las Vegas and Seattle with a planned arrival of the 2028-29 season, exactly 20 years after the SuperSonics were moved to Oklahoma City. While this is just the first step in a long process, with no ownership groups announced for either market, there is an air of potential hope but creeping trepidation in the Pacific Northwest. Fans obviously want to welcome their Sonics back, but they still have honest fears about what may happen next given how their team left.
If the second coming of the Sonics is going to learn from the mistakes of what was broken almost twenty years ago, this is what the fans would like to see from their new relationship with the NBA…