sonicscentral.com - 7/3/2008
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SEATTLE - The City of Seattle took the cash today, rather than enforce the lease for the next two years.
Statement by Mayor Nickels on the settlement of the City’s lawsuit with the Seattle Sonics
Today, I [ Mayor Nickels ] am announcing a settlement with Mr. Bennett and the Professional Basketball Club. Our goals for the settlement were two: To protect the taxpayers’ investment in ...
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... Mr. Baker, SonicsCentral: We were screwed. That offer was not going to get worse with time, and with a court win, they took money from somebody that has money, but the mayor, Mayor Nickels, said it wasn’t about the money in his testimony; it was about enforcing the lease, and retaining NBA basketball in Seattle; neither happened....I hate Clay Bennett, I watched him lie, and now I watched Mayor Nickels let him get away with it...Thanks to Brian, Steve, Xteve, Grif, everybody that fueled SaveOurSonics.org...I have maintained that it has not, and is not, because of the fans that ...
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