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don't see how a City can justified selling its soul to a MLB, NBA, or a NFL team just to be mention on the news.
We should focused not only on the game of basketball, but on all of the baggage associated with the culture that has now permeated the NBA The NBA calls them HOST CITIES, I can see why some call them VICTIM CITIES, Restaurants reports record numbers of dine-and-dash incidents (in the hundreds). Cabbies reports record numbers of non-paying customers (also in the hundreds). Shops reported record numbers of shop-lifting incidents (you get it by now). According to police, records of those same Cities were also set for fights/brawls and gunplay, None of this makes major headlines. Apparently, anything short of a full-scale, Viking-style rape, pillage, plunder and burn assault is seen as a moral victory. Interestingly, other NON HOST CITIES crime figures dipped over that same period of time.
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wow.
Show some proof of this when the Hornets were here.
I was one of the 19K walking around Bricktown before and after and I saw none of what you mentioned.
Were you there?
Anyway, all of your arguments above have been discussed and addressed ad nauseum on many other threads....
I won't change your mind, but please don't discredit the time that the Hornet's were here.. what they brought to OKC was invaluable in so many ways and I saw nothing of what you refer to above.
Besides, regardless of race or culture, any time you gather huge crowds together, the odds are that there will be an increase of incidents of crime in the area .. statistically speaking.
Truthfully, if I feared for one minute that my children or myself would be in danger, I never would have gone to all of the games I attended.