Seattle, Scratch that - Oklahoma City Sonics
CelticsBlog —
... [Green Bandwagon Update: Henry Abbott is all over this story.] Well it looks like that could actually happen next season. I've been against this move from the start. I'm torn because there are a lot bigger problems out there. At the same time I don't like to see David Stern's dark side. I'll close with my favorite Shawn Kemp mix:
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Seattle Loses Their Team
CelticsBlog —
... Written by Jeff Wednesday, 02 July 2008 TrueHoop reports: The Sonics have been released from their lease, and will be on their way Oklahoma City, in exchange for $45 million in immediate payments to the city. In addition, $30 million more will be paid by the Sonics owners in five years if KeyArena is renovated, and the NBA does not have another team approved for Seattle. Well, they get some cash and get to keep the team name, but for now they don't have a team. Sad. Share this article! ...
A small hope
Rip City Project | A Portland Trailblazers blog —
Sonics fans, I implore you to read this. Those of you in Oklahoma City, read this. While everyone waits for Howard Schulz, the onus is now on the media to help find the truth to Bennett's actions. All those investigatory journalism teams, E:60, it's time to forget for a moment about Miguel Tejada's true age, steroids and Adam Jones. If the truth can bring the Sonics back, then the sports media can do its part by doing its job. There's no need for a crusade against Bennett, only to put a little elbow grease into being something that may be a little old fashioned ...
Well, That Sucked: Clay Bennett Era in Seattle Ends with Buyout, General Sense of Having Been Effed
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... But I live in New York and have visited Seattle all of once, and it pisses me off. What’s my problem? (Generally, the answer is: “a vast array of smaller problems”) In this instance, I think TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott, in a rare editorializing moment, gets it pretty much exactly right: ...
The Seattle Sonics Could Not Be Saved [NBA]
Deadspin —
... Sonics Owner Clay Bennett is a jowly-faced bastard. I'm doing him a favor by calling him that because that’ s probably one of the kinder things he'll be called from now on by heartbroken Seattle residents, who after two years of thinking their beloved 41-year-old franchise would stick around ...
Berry Tramel's Existential Crisis
Bend It Like Bennett —
... That's more like it. That's the kind of petty, gratuitous fluff I'm looking for. If you ask me, I think you've spent a little too much time on the left coast. Those loony liberal media elites are trying to fool you with their big-city trickery. You know, partisan hacks like Henry Abbott: ...
