seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/17/2008
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The latest plan to bring pro basketball back to Seattle now that its team has been sold and moved to Oklahoma City may faces enormous challenges as it heads to the 2009 legislative session.
weekendamerica.publicradio.org - 11/14/2008
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Comment | Refresh By Conner McCall From Minneapolis,
MN, 11/18/2008 As a Timberwolves fan anytime someone willing...
joins our downtrodden fan base it is welcome. Of course we haven't lost our team so we don't know pain like Sonics fans. If you do ...
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Fan Free Agent
nba.com - 11/19/2008
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nba.com —
Oklahoma City is 1,488 miles from Portland, as
the crow ... err, team charter flies. Dallas is...
only 185 miles from the Thunder's home base. So does Oklahoma City share a divisional bond with the Mavericks, its closest NBA neighbor? Nope. At least not ...
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Western Conference Insider: Realigning the West
ajc.com - 11/18/2008
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ajc.com —
Marvin Williams was in the crowd at Seattle’s
Key Arena for the opening night of what turned...
out to be the Flip Murray show. A relatively unknown Murray was forced into the starting SuperSonics lineup for an injured Ray Allen. He promptly went on a ...
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Murray subbing in nicely with Hawks
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First Cup: Monday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Chris McGann of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "The latest plan to bring pro basketball back to Seattle now that its team has been sold and moved to Oklahoma City faces enormous challenges as it heads to the 2009 legislative session. The city of Seattle proposal for financing a major remodel of KeyArena -- a prerequisite for getting a new NBA team -- would raise $75 million with a 1 percent Seattle hotel tax currently collected to pay debt on the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. The city would provide another $75 million with revenue and ...
Arena Update
Supersonicsoul - The Sonics Blog! —
Chris McGann at the PI has an update on the KeyArena situation, specifically in regard to the likelihood of anything passing through Frank Chopp's iron fists this session in Olympia. ...
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The city of Seattle, once a city that had the Mariners win 116 games which tied a Major League record, that had the Seahawks go to the Super Bowl and well the fall out of that, but they broke a tradition by returning to the playoffs the next year. ...
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