withleather.uproxx.com - 7/3/2008
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Welp, that's all for the Seattle Sonics. The city of Seattle caved and settled with Clay Bennett's ownership group to the tune of $75 million, so the team will play its games in Oklahoma City next season. While the city keeps the rights to the "Sonics" name, there are no real prospects or promises to bring an NBA team back to the Emerald City. I grew up a huge fan of Xavier McDaniel, and I ...
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RIP Sonics
Hail Mary Jane —
... Fuck that lying piece of shit Clay Bennett. Fuck David Stern, that collusive cocksucker. Fuck Howard Schultz for selling the team to Bennett, and fuck Starbucks, too. Fuck Seattle’s limp-dick government. Fuck Hurricane Katrina. And fuck Oklahoma fans who get indignant and say that they’re more deserving of an NBA team than Seattle, the victim of uncaring ownership and a city whose only crime was not shelling out more tax dollars so a carpetbagging son of a bitch could make more fistfuls money. ...
Blog-O-Say-Can-You See: Superb Star Spanglings
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... referee . • YOU BEEN BLINDED tosses up a classic clip of the Giants’ Will Clark happily overmodulating over winning the 1987 NL West title . • JOSH Q. PUBLIC combs over video of Wade Boggs remembering the moment that convinced him to get treatment for his balding scalp . • MONDESI’S HOUSE knows Mellon Arena is now a cathedral of both good & evil, as the Pittsburgh Penguins sign Miroslav Satan and Eric ‘God’-ard . • WITH LEATHER gives an eloquent eulogy in honor of the gone but not forgotten Seattle Supersonics.
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A Drop in the Bucket: Why the Settlement between the Sonics and Seattle will See Bennett Making $$$
bizofbasketball.com 7/3/2008 — That laughter you’re hearing is the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics. Or rather, the owners of the team formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics as a settlement has been reached between ownership and the City of Seattle for as much as $75 million. Here's why, as slimy as Bennett is, he comes out smelling like a rose, even after paying as much as $75 million to relocate the Sonics
GOODBYE, SONICS
withleather.com 7/3/2008 — The most eloquent reaction you'll read.
First They Came For the Sonics...
upsideandmotor.blogspot.com 7/3/2008 — I've tried to remain quiet on the subject of the Sonics possible (and now certain) departure from Seattle for a couple of reasons...[But] This situation is so unbearably shitty that I feel like I need to write something about it...
Clay Bennett Didn't Exactly Give Up that Sonic Legacy
myespn.go.com 7/4/2008 — It has been widely reported that the City of Seattle gets to keep all the Sonics name, history, banners, colors, and all that. Not exactly. The name, colors, and the uniforms, they're safe. But the other stuff? That's trickier. The evidence ...
Seattle hopes to lure NBA back (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 7/3/2008
As the SuperSonics pack for the move to Oklahoma City, basketball fans and city officials were hopeful about the provisions of the team's departure deal that could lead to a new NBA franchise in Seattle. But meeting those requirements will be no easy ...
