on July 8, 2025, 11:30:01, in reply to "I do not understand this POV"
You were a SuperSonics season ticket-holder and took their move [to Oklahoma City in 2008] hard. Did you root for the Thunder last season?
Absolutely. Kevin Durant and Nick Collison wore green and gold. If you're a basketball fan, how could you watch that team and not go, "What those guys are doing is amazing"?
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/8910162/pearl-jam-jeff-ament-jams-hoops-bieber-espn-magazine
2014
Since the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder, do you still you root for them?
You know, I do. And I take a lot of flak for it down at my local gym where I hoop. I knew they were gonna be good right away. I met Sam Presti before he moved from the Spurs to the Thunder and everybody was saying “Presti, he knows how to do it.” He came up under R.C. Buford with the Spurs and he knows how to draft, how to manage the team. I knew they would be good but not this fast.
And they’re an exciting team to watch. Russell Westbrook is, you know, arguably the most explosive physical specimen that the NBA has ever had except for maybe early Jordan. He’s off the charts.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jams-jeff-ament-on-the-nba-and-breaking-noses-with-win-butler-68282/
There's more stuff out there as well. He was in the Sonicsgate documentary. Huge NBA fan and Sonics fan. I think he just yearns for a connection to an NBA team.
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