With the end of the NBA's regular season I thought it would be nice to find out what came of our beloved Seattle SuperSonics and their first season as the Oklahoma City Weasels-aka the Oklahoma City Thunder.

-Finished with the fourth worst record in the league (23-69).
-Dead last in the Northwest Division.
-Lost nine of their final 12 games of the season
-Bottom 10 in the NBA for points per game (96.6), points allowed per game (103.3), field goal percent age (44.5), turnovers (16.3), and more.

Hopefully these numbers give you a warm feeling inside or you at least chuckle a little bit.

Remember when Seattle had a professional basketball team? Remember Jack Sickma? How about when Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp took the Sonics to the NBA finals only to lose to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls? It's all starting to come back to you, isn't it?

Of course we can't forget that the Sonics did something that both the Seahawks and the Mariners haven't been able to do - win a championship.

As disheartening as it is, the Thunder's majority owner and evil mastermind Clayton Bennett was able to draw some excitement this season as the Thunder brought in 18,693 fans on average - 11th in the league - where the highest average that the Sonics were able to bring in from 2001 to 2008 was 16,475 in the 2004-2005 season - 21st in the league.

This is not to say that Seattle is incapable of bringing in fans. Just look at what the Mariners and Seahawks have done.

In the 2001 and 2002 seasons - 2001 being the year they won 116 games - the Mariners had the best attendance average in Major League Baseball averaging 43,506 fans those two years.

The Seahawks have been filling up Quest Field the last three seasons bringing in at least an average of 67,977 fans a game.

All Seattle needs is a little excitement and the people will support the sports franchises.

That is why former Sonics President and General Manager Wally Walker is partially to blame for the move to Oklahoma City. He continually was unable to build a team that people wanted to watch.

Aside from the Sonics first place finish in the Northwest Division in the 2004-2005 season, they posted losing records year after year - how many skinny, young centers that don't produce does it take for Walker to stop drafting them?

Lets not forget that the SuperSonics were once considered one of the best franchises in the league during the '90s when we drafted Kemp in 1989 and Payton in 1990. The Sonics went 15 straight seasons without a losing record from 1987 to 2002.

This is not to say that Walker should take all the blame for the move to Oklahoma City since that wouldn't be fair to the guys like Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and NBA Commissioner David Stern who all got bamboozled by Clay Bennett.

Fortunately, there are some teams out there that haven't been producing on the court the past few years, while not bringing in good attendance that have the potential to one day move.

These teams include the Sacramento Kings, Memphis Grizzlies and the Charlotte Bobcats all of whom missed out on the playoffs yet again this year.

There is also Senate Bill 6116 which is going through the Washington legislature and if approved, would increase the tax for hotels, restaurants and car rentals in Seattle and would go towards publicly owned stadiums like KeyArena as well as other things.

Although there has been talk of one of these teams coming to Seattle one day, I don't believe Sonics fans should get excited any time soon.

Considering the current economy and the debt that Seattle already owes, I believe the best option would be to wait until at least 2013 - the year that Bennett will have to pay up $30 million if no team is in Seattle - before anything is done.

So as our Sonics gear continues to collect dust, we should continue to dream of a day when David Stern quits, Bennett goes bankrupt and the Sonics are back on top of the league and in the NBA Finals.

Until then, how about them Seattle Sounders?