Sonics Open Tonight in Denver

The Sonics open their season tonight in Denver. Game's at 7:30, you can watch it on FSN.

If the Sonics' owners weren't trying to move them, I'd probably write about how this is a rebuilding year for the franchise, about how this season isn't really about winning but about watching Durant and #5-pick Jeff Green learn how to play in the NBA.

I'd write that the Sonics' front office wisely brought in a couple of respected veterans, Wally Szczerbiak and Kurt "Crazy Eyes" Thomas, to help with the transition. And that the franchise, for the first time since the early 90s, seems to have a plan in place for success.

But the team's owners are trying to move them, and so it's difficult, for me at least, to get too interested in the long-term success of the Sonics.

That success, if it happens, is likely to occur somewhere else. So while some fans are exciting about the coming season--eternal optimists and former Bennett apologists Sonics Central predict 40 wins and a playoff berth, to me this team is a curiosity--a traveling road show.

I plan to attend tons of games--what basketball fan wouldn't, with Durant on the team--but we won't be rooting for the Sonics the same way we do for the more rooted Hawks and M's.

The Sonics and Durant play their first home game tomorrow (Thursday) night at 7:30 at Key Arena vs. Phoenix.