Mayor Harrell and Knox, the CEO of the Seattle Sports activities Fee, are envisioning a future the place Sonics gamers turn out to be function fashions and encourage youth to not solely take part in basketball, however dream. Seattle has a protracted historical past of manufacturing NBA expertise, together with Brandon Roy, Jason Terry, Jamal Crawford, Paolo Banchero and Dejounte Murray. Barry thinks the Sonics will help encourage others. “How do you dream larger if you happen to don’t see it in entrance of you?” Barry requested. “I used to be considering if I by no means went to Golden State video games as a child to observe Chris Mullin, Tim Hardaway and Mitch Richmond, how a lot of my devotion and love of the sport would have been depleted by not having the contact, the autograph, the recollections? The affect can’t be overstated. “There’s virtually 20 years of children in Seattle who by no means noticed one recreation of their metropolis of LeBron James, one of many biggest gamers who ever performed. Twenty years of children, and oldsters for that matter, who haven’t had that neighborhood, that surroundings, that have. It hurts.” -via New York Occasions / November 15, 2024
