OT: Supersonics

[DavidGee24]

Damndest thing, I was thinking that Madison Square Garden is the oldest basketball/hockey arena in professional sports, but then I looked it up, saw that it was built in 1968 (previous incarnations were different buildings in different locations), and guess which arena actually is the oldest?

[mostonmike]

Damndest thing, I was thinking that Madison Square Garden is the oldest basketball/hockey arena in professional sports, but then I looked it up, saw that it was built in 1968 (previous incarnations were different buildings in different locations), and guess which arena actually is the oldest?

Imagine the world in which people do just guess or try to work it out - without looking it up.

So I will play along - I know that the NBA really have insisted over the past couple of decades that teams had a modern world class facility prompting a lot of the old arena to be demolished. Even the Lakers and Clippers have gone to a new arena recently, haven't they?

I'll go with Kraken's arena - although the team is new the Arena isn't? ---- now I will go and look up the answer.

Follow up question then - I know the Red Sox (1912) and the Cubs (1914) have the oldest parks in baseball, what year (and team) has the next oldest? Try and not look either question up before answering.

[DavidGee24]

Damndest thing, I was thinking that Madison Square Garden is the oldest basketball/hockey arena in professional sports, but then I looked it up, saw that it was built in 1968 (previous incarnations were different buildings in different locations), and guess which arena actually is the oldest?

Imagine the world in which people do just guess or try to work it out - without looking it up.

So I will play along - I know that the NBA really have insisted over the past couple of decades that teams had a modern world class facility prompting a lot of the old arena to be demolished. Even the Lakers and Clippers have gone to a new arena recently, haven't they?

I'll go with Kraken's arena - although the team is new the Arena isn't? ---- now I will go and look up the answer.

Follow up question then - I know the Red Sox and the Cubs have the oldest parks in baseball, who's is the next oldest? Try and not look either question up before answering.

Yep, it's Climate Pledge, built in 1962 making it the oldest. Who would have ever thought it?

Third oldest ballpark is Dodger Stadium and fourth oldest is Angel Stadium. Those were easy, and #5 is Kaufmann Stadium. After that it gets tricky. I would have correctly guessed Rogers Centre at #6 but then my next guess would have been Camden Yards at #7 and it's Tropicana Field.

[Donn Beach]

Wow, biggest collapse in NBA history, that's pretty memorable

[mostonmike]

Wow, biggest collapse in NBA history, that's pretty memorable

Spurs scored 76 points in the first half before scoring only 30 the rest of the way, that 46-point difference tied the largest such decrease in a playoff game in the shot clock era (since 1954-55).

The Knicks are the 39th team to take a 3-1 lead in the Finals. The previous 38 teams this has happened, 37 teams closed the deal, with only the 2016 Warriors blowing such a lead vs. the LeBron James-led Cavaliers.

Extraordinary scenes at MSG, worth a look on whichever platform you watch your highlights....

[Millikin]

The NBA is so fcking rigged though.

It'll go to 7 to keep NYC market tuned in as long as possible.