No problem. That wasn't the case at all, Seattle actually was known as having one of the most die hard fan bases, as you can probably tell. Basically, the dude who owns Starbucks bought the team and was a self entitled asshole who thought because he made money selling coffee he'd win a championship in a couple years after he bought the team.

Needless to say, that didn't happen, and he kind of fucked up a team the city had loved for a while. Then he sold it to an oklahoma busisnessman who said he would try his best to keep the team there, while the entire time was planning on relocating it. Seattle had just paid for a new stadium, and wasn't trying to fund another one right away, especially because key arena wasn't that bad.

So the last couple years were poorly attended because they all knew they were getting fucked, and now okc seems like a good basketball town because they inherited a good team with likable players that turned to a playoff team before the novelty wore off. I'm sure I'll get downvoted because the okc people are apparently out in force in this thread but that's what happened, hopefully that sheds some light (but no hate on them, would've happened anywhere).

It'll be interesting to see how many players in one of the top four or five markets of nba talent historically still keep hooping now that they only have the shitty seahawks to look up to and the fucked blazers 4 miles south.

Edit: by miles I mean hours.