Welcome to The Business of Professional Sports, OKC

For years we heard the mocking from Oklahoma City.

"Well, maybe if you supported your team they wouldn't have left!"

"Get over it, it's done. It was (insert any number of years) ago."

What's the expression? Turnabout is fair play? Karma's a bitch? Wait....JT said it best I think.

or maybe it was this?

Or maybe, just maybe it was classically trained actor Jon Voigt who hit the nail on the head.

Here's the deal. Kevin Durant just bolted OKC for Golden State in his first real chance at Free Agency, and that cheer you heard was from the great Pacific Northwest. For nearly a decade we've winced and recoiled at every 50 win season for the Thunder, at every deep playoff run for the Thunder because we knew that it should have been OUR team having that success. It should have been the Seattle Supersonics third run as a dominant NBA franchise. But alas, thanks to a group of deceitful snake oil salesmen  it happened in Oklahoma fucking City. 

Guess what, OKC? You wanted to be a Big League city? You wanted to be nationally relevant and show the rest of the country you have arrived? This is what happens. This is what happens when you FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS. This is the business of pro sports, as Seattle knows all too well.  Your esteemed owners understood this in 2006 when they played the game to perfection and stole the Sonics. Now their greed has backfired in the form of KD's abandonment. 

Here is the difference; Seattle will continue to be a World Class city. OKC now will be relegated back to the podunk cow town in the middle of the country that nobody gives a shit about. Oh sure, you have Russell Westbrook - but for how long? He's got one year left on his deal and do you honestly expect that THIS GUY wants to stay in your economically depressed shit hole town? No, neither do I. A year from now, after Russ finishes up a 39-43 season and misses the playoffs he's off like a prom dress. Chicago, LA or New York - big markets with a chance to actually win a title. 

While this doesn't erase the pain of the theft of our Supersonics, it certainly provides a respite from seemingly never ending nut punches Seattle has taken in this process. 

In closing, offer one last mature and well thought out response to the Oklahoma City Thunder.