Episode 3: Olympia | Sonic Boom

Book of Basketball 2.0

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Sports

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Seattle vs. Schultz. Who really owns our teams? Host: Jordan Ritter Conn Producers: Noah Malale, Isaac Lee, Kara Kornhaber, Karan Nevatia, Catherine St. Louis, Jonathan Hirsch and Vikram Patel Sound Design: Scott Somerville and Vikram Patel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast was originally recorded in 2019.
0:03.2	We're releasing it again in 2025.
0:06.3	Some small details may have changed.
0:10.1	This is wrong.
0:11.6	This is totally wrong.
0:13.3	These guys got plenty of money.
0:14.8	If they need a new stadium, tell him go buy one.
0:18.1	Chris Van Dyke was ready.
0:20.9	For years, he'd been getting ready for the fight with Howard Schultz and NBA
0:25.5	Commissioner David Stern.
0:28.1	Van Zyke was an activist based in Seattle.
0:31.0	He had a cause.
0:32.4	He'd seen money going from governments to sports franchises, money going to stadiums. There was something wrong with
0:39.2	this version of apple pie. So he decided to do something about it. He started a group.
0:46.7	I was the co-founder and for many years the co-chair of the infamous citizens for more important things.
0:57.3	Citizens for more important things.
0:59.9	Healthcare, schools, housing.
1:02.4	The more important things that we ought to be spending this money on if we have the money.
1:07.9	As part of his activism, Van Dyck would make regular trips to the state capital, Olympia.
1:13.8	And in February of 2006, he traveled there to meet a formidable opponent, NBA commissioner
1:20.1	David Stern.
1:24.2	Olympia sits about an hour southwest of Seattle, tucked at the southern edge of the Puget Sound.
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