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Last two Seattle SuperSonics will face off in 2018 NBA Finals

By Dave Daniels

TARRYTOWN, NY - JULY 27: (L-R) Jeff Green and Kevin Durant of the Seattle SuperSonics pose for a portrait during the 2007 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot on July 27, 2007 at the MSG Training Facility in Tarrytown, New York. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2007 NBAE (Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images)
TARRYTOWN, NY - JULY 27: (L-R) Jeff Green and Kevin Durant of the Seattle SuperSonics pose for a portrait during the 2007 NBA Rookie Photo Shoot on July 27, 2007 at the MSG Training Facility in Tarrytown, New York. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2007 NBAE (Photo by Fernando Medina/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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It’s a shame that the Seattle SuperSonics don’t have the ability to go to the NBA Finals, but they have a couple former draft picks going.

After Nick Collison retired, there were only two former members of the Seattle SuperSonics left in the league. Kevin Durant and Jeff Green are those players, and they’ll face off in the 2018 NBA Finals.

This will be the fourth time in a row that the Golden State Warriors compete against the Cleveland Cavaliers on the brightest stage. Green will probably guard Durant quite a bit in this series, especially considering that Kevin Love isn’t out of the concussion protocol.

The Warriors won in 2015 and 2017, and the Cavaliers came back from down 3-1, which had never happened in NBA Finals history, in 2016.

Durant got drafted by Seattle in 2008 and played there for one season before the team moved to Oklahoma City.

Green has never been in the Finals, and he once missed an entire season due to heart surgery. It never seemed like he would play again after that, and so it’s heartwarming to see him excel at this level.

According to the Seattle Times, the Warriors will play a preseason game in Seattle next fall, and so they’ll get to see Durant in person again.

Isn’t that kind of twisting the knife? It doesn’t appear fair.

It might be small consolation, but that isn’t enough though. Seattle needs to have a team again. There are at least three franchises in the league who would make more money there, and the fans really don’t deserve this drought of basketball that the NBA forced upon them.

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We’ll see whether Durant or Green comes out on top in the Finals, and there will be many in Seattle watching from afar and thinking about what might have been.

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