Tonight’s Monday Night Football game is in Seattle, a town that was once home to a really good basketball franchise – the Seattle SuperSonics – which was rudely ripped away from them back in 2008 and is now the Oklahoma City Thunder.
If you watched the NBA in the 1990s you know how great Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton were to watch. They faced Michael Jordan and the Bulls in the 1996 NBA Finals and lost in six great games.
ESPN paid tribute to those days by featuring Kemp and Payton in their intro for Monday night’s Vikings-Seahawks game and it was pretty great.
Check out this wonderful piece of nostalgia:
It had fans wanting the Sonics to make a return to their home, something which the NBA should do some day with an expansion team:
