From an actual article:
The projected cost of the arena will be a minimum of $900 million. Thunder ownership has committed to contribute $50 million.
The city’s news release cited a study that estimated the Thunder’s annual economic impact at $600 million with 3,000 jobs created.
If the taxpayers go through with this they’re moronic cunt monkeys.
Fast-forward five years: They’re moronic cunt monkeys.
In general I think using public funds for private spaces is awful.
But the math changes quite a bit when you compare a football stadium that gets used maybe a couple dozen times a year, and a mixed-use hockey/basketball/lacrosse/concert/etc arena that is consistently booked.
As a seattleite was really hoping they’d leave for somewhere else, really not even Seattle. I have to go to OKC a lot for work and there is no reason that city needs an NBA franchise. It is the most stereotypical American city you can imagine, nothing but stroads, suburbia, and a solitary skyscraper that I akin to the eye of sauron since you can see it most everywhere in the city because the area is so flat… just out in the distance, always watching…
I like the irony of complaining about OKC on this post. OKC is (probably) about to vote in a new sales tax to build a new arena to keep the team there — the thing Seattle didn’t do that caused the team to leave.
It’s truly insane that they let a cowtown swindler steal an NBA team from a top-tier sports city. I’m still mad and will forever hate the thunder, fuck Clay Bennet.
