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Say Goodbye, Seattle
Chris McGann, Angela Galloway and Craig Harris report in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Legislature said no, so the Sonics say they'll have to go. For the third consecutive year, the Seattle Sonics failed to convince the Legislature that taxpayers should help finance a new arena for the NBA franchise. "This is a staggering and quite likely a debilitating blow to our efforts to develop a ...
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Mavs Moneyball — ... Things aren't looking good in Seattle. A vote for taxpayer funding of a new Sonics arena failed again, and David Stern said in his chat today "From a league perspective, we are hoping for a miracle that gets a vote accomplished. If not, things don't look very good."

The Green Begins To Fade.
Signal to Noise — ... TrueHoop provides a good compendium and summary, with links to folks espousing the need to keep the team and its 40 years of history in the Emerald City. But it's hard for me to agree with

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