What was taken from Seattle The story of how Seattle lost the Sonics has been told many times, and it still burns. Howard Schultz sold the team to Clay Bennett in 2006, Bennett moved it to Oklahoma City in 2008, and the NBA — almost immediately afterward — made franchise relocation so procedurally difficult that […]
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Yay! Correctly predicted 4/4 series winners, but only 1/4 on game winners. We’re entering the final twilight of the basketball season, and the games are about to get intense. Lets give out some winners for the conference finals pick-ems! #1 Thunder vs #2 Spurs The Thunder have the reigning league MVP, are the defending champs,
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Out of the 8 first round series, we predicted 7 right, but only got 2 out of the 7 game scores correct. There were a couple close calls. The Spurs were leading by 14 and choked the 4th quarter which prevented them from winning 4-0. The Lakers took care of the Rockets in even less
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As is annual tradition, we will be doing our first round pick-ems, I’ll keep it nice and sweet since I am living a busy life and applying to dental school soon! WESTERN CONFERENCE #1 Thunder vs #8 Suns Easiest pick of the entire post-season. The Suns are a great story, but their style of guard
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What better way to end the season than being crowned SUPER BOWL CHAMPS. This was a season about rewriting narratives, revisiting old scars, and closing loops that had been open for years. At the center of it all was Sam Darnold. Football rarely hands out poetic endings, but this one came close. Over the course
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This Super Bowl feels suspiciously like it was scripted for me. Seahawks vs. Patriots. Again.Somewhere, the football gods looked at my life résumé and said, “Yeah, this tracks.” The Seahawks have been my team for as long as I can remember — hometown loyalty, baked in from the start. When they won Super Bowl XLVIII
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I was born in 2001, the year the Mariners won 116 games and seemed destined for immortality. People still talk about that season like it was a myth — a record-tying juggernaut, a team that felt inevitable. But I don’t remember the roar of that summer. I don’t remember the hope. All I’ve known, my
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Entering the top 4, we were already guaranteed to have a new Champion. Despite the NBA being a league of dynasties, ever since the Warriors, there have been no repeat winners. Matter a fact, no defending champion has ever even made it back to the conference finals. This year was no different, yet it still
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So… I have been horrendous with my picks this NBA post-season. To recap: I picked the Thunder in 6, the Warriors in 6, the Cavs in 5, and Celtics in 5. I only predicted one series winner correct, and missed on all game scores. In fairness to myself, the Warriors lost Curry to injury after
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