Topic: Seattle

January 16, 2013

Gaining a Team and Losing Something

Patrick Dubuque

On the other side of the Kings-to-Seattle move is an entire city of people who know the pain that Sacramento is going through right now. It's a complicated way to feel.

November 21, 2012

Maps on Maps on Maps: A Geographic Survey of the NBA | Winner and Losers

Tom Souhlas

In our final installment, we look at the winners and losers of player movement, and what can be done to make the process more efficient. Also, we give you our secret for rearing a professional basketball player, because we're friends. 

October 19, 2012

White Elephant or Silver Bullet?

Matthew Brown

In the final installment of our 5-part series on retractable roofs in Major League Baseball, we look take a look at the structures in the past, the present and the future. 

June 11, 2012

Gone, But Unforgettable

Jeremy Repanich

The Oklahoma City Thunder are not the Seattle SuperSonics. This isn't a reason not to love this most lovable of juggernauts. But it doesn't quite stave off the bitterness, either.

May 1, 2012

It's May Day In Niketown

David Roth

It's May Day everywhere, which means that the weather's fairly nice, and that some people are in the streets making themselves heard, while others are running around and breaking things. In Seattle, this proved to be bad news for Niketown.

February 2, 2012

Tony Wroten Stays Home

Todd Dybas

Before he hit puberty, Tony Wroten appeared destined for NBA greatness. Things haven't quite worked out that way, but Wroten has rebounded, and now is lighting up the Pac-12 like a future pro.

December 15, 2011

No King in the Emerald City

Eric Nusbaum

In Brandon Roy, Seattle had the next best thing to its own basketball team: a player who was born and raised in the city, stayed all four years to become an All-American at U-Dub, and played for the next best thing to the Sonics. Now the city can’t even tie its dwindling NBA spirits to him. Like the Sonics, he was here and then he was gone.