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…
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.
