Ghost Limb

When I found this next nugget, I got briefly excited, before I realized there was no reason to. According to The Oregonian, Blazers coach Nate McMillan just turned down a contract extension. He has two years left on a 5-year, $30 million deal he signed after leaving the Sonics. He explained his thinking thusly:

"I want to earn it. We haven't done anything here yet, and when my five years is done, I want to make sure they want me and make sure I want to be here."

That sounds to me like a coach with wanderlust. So upon seeing this, my first reaction was, "Wow, maybe he'll come back to the Sonics." Then I remembered that Seattle has no NBA team. Great.

They say that some people who lose limbs still "feel" the missing appendage from time to time, as if it were still there; sometimes it itches or feels tingly. They call it a ghost limb. I guess the Sonics are Seattle's ghost limb. So the question is, will it always feel like this? And in the words of Bill Simmons, is it sports bigamy to root for the Blazers now?