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Let the Seattle-OKC Healing Begin, Part 1
sportingnews.com - 7/4/2008
Let the Seattle-OKC Healing Begin, Part 1
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Clay Bennett is the devil. The city of Seattle decided to play chicken rather than admit that Key Arena is a high school gym. They deserve each other, but please fans, let not the seeds of hatred be sown between thee. You are all just fine men and women who crave the basketball. What's done is done, and now, let the healing begin. So for those of you in one of these two cities, kindly ...

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SeaTown Sports — ... [Yahoo! Sports] [Enjoy the Enjoyment] [FanHouse] [SOS] Deal with it +This is what pisses me off the most, replica banners and trophies...WTF!?!??! ARE YOU SERIOUS [ESPN] +What happens now? [Save Our Sonics] +Let's do it the right way. Not the NBA way. [Supersonicsoul] +I prefer the name OKC Bandits. [Seattle PI] +The real way to address those stupid Oklahoma City fans [SportingNews] Stuff no one cares about +Matt Hasselbeck will be really good next year. Not ...

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