Crawford never thought that the Sonics would leave in the first place. They were in a transition after the Ray Allen years but had a young budding superstar in Kevin Durant, as well as Russell Westbrook and Jeff Green. “You see these young stars coming. It’s Seattle… It’s a great place. We didn’t think we’d lose the team,” Crawford said. “So when it actually happened, I think everybody was just shocked. Everybody stopped for a second. They’re really gone?” he continued. “And I was even one of the ones like we’ll get them back in five years to now, it’s like whoa that was 14 years ago. But now I actually do believe we’ll get them back soon enough.”