[TripletDaddy]

I actually am for it. An NBA franchise provides some local jobs, but more importantly it can provide a sense of civic pride and identity.

Most of these public financing deals cost the public cents on the dollar for their tax money.

LA got cute with the Rams and the Raiders. Now it has no NFL franchise. LA has done just fine without them, but I am positive the next time a franchise comes to LA, we will treat it better.

The Coliseum tried to get cute with SC, so SC said adios. At the 11th hour, the Coliseum commission decided it was better to have SC as a tenant.

The Sonics have been good to the city...even providing it with a championship, which is more than most teams can say. If the public did not want the team at a net cost of a few bucks per person, then it should not be sad to see it go. If they want it to stay, then they should help pony up to keep it in the city. My guess is that the season after the Sonics leave, folks in Seattle will wish they had agreed to pay a few extra cents of sales tax or whatever.

For people that love the free market and are against socialism, they should be ecstatic that the market has spoken. OKC, here we come...