Seattle SuperSonics

SuperSonics Headed to OK City

*gasp* I can’t believe it!

Anyone seriously taken aback by the news that Clay Bennett is going to move the Sonics out of Seattle please raise your hand. Now please take a magic marker, write “rube” on a piece of paper and pin it to your shirt so everyone knows.

Yes, less than a year after buying the Sonics and saying he wouldn’t move the team, it seems that Mr. Bennett and the state have come to loggerheads over building a new arena. Are you ready for some basketball, Oklahoma?

Of course, the new Sonics owner was slow to even come up with a proposal for the city and the state to consider, and then gave the idea little time to gain any acceptance in the legislature before calling it a dead deal. He’s been vague all along on what kind of financing he and his partners would provide, and generally been a dickweed. How about you build you’re damn arena? Oh, that’s right, the good folks in Oklahoma City already built one for you.

In an interesting column appearing in the News Tribune, John McGrath proposes that since Bennett is so set to move the team anyway that he be allowed to move the team to OK City or wherever he wants, but that the name and the history remain with Seattle, a la the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns. That’s not likely to happen since David Stern is as gutless and soul-less as they come, but it’s a good idea.

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