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Friday, May 30, 2008

Business/Location: Key Arena
Address: 305 Harrison St
City: Seattle
State: WA
Zip Code: 98109
Phone: 206-281-5800
Website: http://www.nba.com/sonics/tickets/KeyArena_Info-30295-51.html

Posted by:  Craig Nelson
Photo:  Patrick Romero
   Key Arena
Growing up on the East Coast, sports is a part of your blood--for better ('86 Celtics) and sometime for worse ('86 Red Sox). Most Seattleites today could care less about a bunch of dudes running up and down a court getting paid millions of dollars to lose most of their games. But dammit, for those countless fans who do care (like the writer Sheman Alexie), basketball at The Key was a way of life. Like the subculture of other Seattle pastimes coffee, music, kayaking…trekking through Seattle Center past the Fun Forest toward Key Arena was a ritual that we took for granted. Yet now Seattle is losing that important piece of urban existence to, drum roll please...Oklahoma City. Yup. David Stern and the NBA head honchos think Seattle is worthless as an NBA city. But if anyone was around for the Sonics' surprising playoff run in the spring of 2005, you know the real passion that Seattle fans can exhume. Key Arena got loud. It got crazy. It was downright mind-blowing. Too bad we’ll never experience that again. Unless we find ourselves in Oklahoma City. Keep up with all the latest depressing news at Supersonicsoul.com.




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