Russell Wilson is really putting a lot of effort into bringing the Supersonics back to Seattle

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson wants an NBA team back in the city.

So much so that he’s willing to start a petition.

Uh, check that. He’s willing to suggest that someone else start a petition that he presumably will sign.

Well, Seattle Supersonics fans, at least that’s something after the City Council voted down a proposal Monday that would have closed down part of Occidental Avenue South so an entrepreneur could build a new arena there.

The vote was close, 5 to 4, and apparently the outcome was at least somewhat unexpected, as the Seattle Times described gasps coming from the crowd at City Hall after the announcement and fans dressed in Sonics green and gold “slowly trudging out of the room.”

Seattle hasn’t had an NBA team since the Supersonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 and became the Thunder.

In apparent response to the most recent development, Wilson took to Twitter the following night.

Wilson sure sounds fired up, but some 15 hours after those tweets went out, there’s still no such petition, at least none posted on change.org.

(But, oddly enough, there is one posted three months ago proposing that Wilson’s team, the Seahawks, also move to Oklahoma City and become the Thunderhawks; that petition has 184 signatures).

So unless Wilson is collecting signatures door-to-door, it’s probably best somebody else take up the cause for Seattle’s basketball fans.

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