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Northwest Sports: In the Morning
Enjoy the Enjoyment — Slade Gorton explains that it's no longer "Save Our Sonics", it's "Save Our NBA." He tells Greg Johns: "While I'd still love to see the Sonics stay, I think that is highly unlikely. What we're trying to accomplish now, in my view, is to get another team in their place. That will, however, require the governor and Legislature to come up with a way for Seattle to pay its share of the KeyArena remodel." SonicsCentral ...

Gorton Talking Compromise
Supersonicsoul - The Sonics Blog! — Greg Johns has the write-up here. Obviously, Slade Gorton is not a fool, and if he senses that David Stern would be willing to commit a future expansion team to Seattle in exchange for a new and/or remodeled arena, he feels it is worth pursuing that option. Kudos to Gorton for having the dignity not to take Stern's ridiculous insults personally, and for looking at the big picture. Personally, I think the favored options for Sonics fans would be, in descending order: 1. The current team stays, we keep Durant, Green, et al, ...

Not Fighting for the Sonics Anymore
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Greg Johns of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Gorton has condeded the Sonics. He no longer considers it feasible to keep this team in Seattle long-term. Gorton is, instead, floating the notion of replacing these Sonics with a relocated team, or an expansion team (which current owners have indicated could keep the Sonics' name and history): ...