Watch out Boobie Gibson, Durant is fattening you  up for a mugging.

I am not a fan of the Sonics moving to Oklahoma City at all. I think it's a horrible idea that's destined to fail for multiple reasons, but now I have a new one to add to the mix.

Racism.

Yes, it seems a few Oklahoma City residents aren't pleased with the idea of an NBA team coming to town, even though the city overwhelmingly passed a measure to upgrade the Ford Center arena for the future team.

So what's their rationale? Stephen Jackson, I guess.

Yep, some argued that the NBA's presence would increase Oklahoma City's crime rate and drag down the city. Too many examples were heard from callers of talk radio shows and seen on reader comments around the Internet. Suggestions for possible team nicknames included "Posse,” "Thugs” and "Hoodlums.”

Yes, I can see it already; Kevin Durant and Luke Ridnour robbing fat white people at knifepoint.

A guy named Bill from Tulsa even took it a step further in his response to a March 4 column in The Oklahoman. "The answer is no [to the team],” Bill wrote on NewsOK.com. "We don't want the NBA, with its image problems, fatherless children, egomaniacs and shootings. No thanks.”

Now, an NBA team has 12 players on it, and at least 3 of them are perennial benchwarmers who would rather pocket a check than do anything stupid. So even if you have 9 players with a posse of 6 guys each, that's only 54 posse members. Is that really going to cause a huge uptick in crime?

Now, if Jamaal Tinsley and my boy S-Jax were on the Sonics, then I could understand the concern to a degree. But even then, that would just mean your strip club shootings might increase slightly.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Whatever it takes Sonics, stay in Seattle.