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| “A sad story well told.”
— Greg Johns, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| “A case study of how the politics of professional sports are permanently
— and dangerously — molding 21st century cities across the globe.”
— Jamilah King, Wiretap Mag
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| “Sonicsgate wraps it all up into a tidy two hour package that provides
additional color and back-story with plenty of interviews with key players”
— Michael Nank, Examiner.com
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| “It was as if the filmmakers had created a kind of funeral for the fans.”
— M. Haubs, The Painted Area
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| “You think this sort of thing could never happen to your team,
but it can and it could.”
— BountyBowl, IgglesBlog
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| “We cared. It just didn't matter... a hard lesson in the realities of pro sports.”
— Constable Echelon, Hot Dog & Friends
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| “The wailing wall all Sonics fans deserve.”
— Caleb Hannan, Seattle Weekly
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| “If this film doesn't tell our story, what will?”
— SuperSonicSoul
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| ★★★★½ out of ★★★★★
“Blazer fans have it pretty darn good right now, but don't think it couldn't
happen to us someday. Sonicsgate serves as a reminder that professional
sports have less to do with civic pride than cold, hard, business.”
— Tony Robinson, KATU News Portland
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| “How the Sonics were stolen by an Oklahoma tycoon, and how Seattle
let it happen — you'll never take the Blazers for granted again”
— Ned Lannamann, Portland Mercury
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| “Like many Blazer fans who watched what happened to the Sonics,
I often worry about our Blazers getting Oklahoma City-ed by some Texas,
Florida or other sunbelt city or even Seattle. If you want to watch and
worry alongside many other basketball and Blazer fans, it should be an
interesting time”
— PDX Pipeline
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| “A spectacular, independently-produced, full-length documentary about
the move of the Seattle SuperSonics to Oklahoma City. A must-see for
any NBA fan and, specifically, any fan of a smaller-market franchise.”
— Ben Golliver, Blazer's Edge
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