Sports SuperSonics to Fans: Sea-Ya!

Dejected Sonics fan / Photo: Honu Photo

It ain't exactly the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn or the Colts leaving Baltimore or even Nicolas Cage leaving Las Vegas, but the SuperSonics are leaving Seattle for Oklahoma City (OK City SuperOkies you heard it here first, holla at your trademark!). A sad day in Starbucks town, indeed. Named after the city's famed space needle (not as rumor has it, a famed resident's spaced needle), the Sonics won a championship in 1979 and might've won a couple more in the '90s with their own group of West Coast All-Stars if someone hadn't turned Shawn Kemp on to donuts. In honor of the mighty green and gold, we present the five greatest moments in SuperSonic history.