cat shaped pivotal game 3 matchup tomorrow 8:00 Eastern Time coverage beginning at 7:30 over on ABC the season after moving from Seattle the Oklahoma City Thunder hoisted up plenty of bricks in Bricktown they lost 29 of their first 32 games out of the gate but safe to say nobody in the Emerald City was feeling too much sympathy Zubin there's a pretty good reason for that because Seattle lost his beloved team after the o7o a campaign gone are the days of Shawn Kemp reigning supreme now the thunderous dunks from the Thunder have reopened wounds for fans your Seattle zone Kenny main here comes Durant so the basket launches it fires it down to the Seattle fan watching the Thunder and the NBA Finals is like seeing your ex do well I'm so happy for her rough divorce in short the guy who runs Starbucks sold the Sonics to some guys who aren't from here and when they didn't get a new gym with restaurants and Wi-Fi and all that other fancy stuff new gyms come with they left it's been four years now but there are plenty of reminders here's a reminder Shawn Kemp dunking this is the idea to go around and tear down every rim if there's no Sonics nobody can play here in Seattle we just missed the game of basketball we realized that those big game and those big events is going on right now could be going on right here in our city today so we just like those things to come back here it's customary in a story such as this that a local sports columnist be interviewed you won't have a great amount of joy if Kevin Durant and the boys take this whole thing down I really really really like this team but when the buzzer final buzzer goes off before anything else happens I'm turning off the TV and getting out of the Gedaliah house the only thing more bitter than Seattle coffee - filmmaker Jason Reed is him he made a documentary called sonic skate about the villains and the victims it's been an interesting postseason I've been a Laker fan I've been a spur fan now I'm a Miami Heat fan and LeBron fan it feels very strange but the bottom line is we can't root for the Oklahoma City Thunder this is the same town that 42 years ago lost its baseball team the pilots partly because their stadium was as miserable as their one season but it's also the town that destroyed the kingdom to make way for the 21st century the Seahawks and Mariners got new stadiums but the line was drawn with the Sonics before game to Thursday folks gathered in Seattle's Pioneer Square greasy items at man mutex OKC's gold it was a rally in support of a new stadium that would house an NBA team that couldn't make it elsewhere probably because elsewhere wouldn't build the team in this stadium if you miss him yeah does it keep you awake give us a team David Stern we've supported your product for 41 years David we need a team back here you never should have let him leave we gotta get our team back boss till the cap