sports.espn.go.com - 7/3/2008
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Seattle SuperSonics Terrence Vaccaro/Getty Images Apparently, signs like this one weren't enough to keep the Sonics in Seattle. The NBA should be banned from using the phrase "NBA cares" in any future public service announcement. That should be a contingency of the settlement that ended the city of Seattle's lawsuit against the SuperSonics and freed the team to move to Oklahoma City, Okla. ...
A Shot to the Gut of Seattle Fans
myespn.go.com 7/2/2008 — It's official. The City of Seattle has settled its case with the Seattle Supersonics. The Sonics have been released from their lease, and will be on their way Oklahoma City, in exchange for $45 million in immediate payments to the city. In addition, ...
Seattle Sonics And Clay Bennett Officially Moving To Oklahoma City —
FanIQ Blog
The Sonics are now officially free to move to Oklahoma, and just to rub it in they're already stating that they're going to Oklahoma next season on their web site .
In case you missed it, Seattle will be paid $45 million up front and Sonics owner Clay Bennet will pay an additional $30 million in five years if the city is unable to secure another NBA team. Dictator Stern released a ...
A Disgusting Display Comes To An Ignominious End —
Signal to Noise
So Clay Bennett , for $45 million now and possibly another $30 million down the road, gets to move his NBA team to the relative backwater that is Oklahoma City next season , thanks to a settlement agreed upon with Seattle mayor Greg Nickels just before the judge’s decision in the legal battle between the sides was supposed to be handed down.
Seattle gets to keep the Sonics’ ...
Seattle teamless, SuperSonic fans abandoned by Stern and the NBA —
MVN Outsider
Oklahoma - Oklahoma - Oklahoma!?! Are you kidding me, the Sonics are really moving from Seattle to Oklahoma? Another professional sports team’s hometown fans that love and support their team are abandoned by a league that does not respect their loyalty. The NBA Board of Goons…I mean Governors approved Clay Bennett and the Sonics move to Oklahoma City. In return for not holding ...
OK C YA Seattle; Sonics Will Move For 2008-2009 Campaign —
Slam Dunk Central
The “ Associated Press ” reported Wednesday that the end of an era took place in the city of Seattle as the team formerly known as the SuperSonics will be moving to Oklahoma City for the 2008-2009 season. A settlement was reached that will pay the city of Seattle possibly as much $75 million will allow the team to terminate it’s lease immediately. The deal will allow the ...
Seattle Loses Their Team —
CelticsBlog
TrueHoop reports: (http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-33-14/A-Shot-to-the-Gut-of-Seattle-Fans.html)
The Sonics have been released from their lease, and will be on their
way Oklahoma City, in exchange for $45 million in immediate payments to
the city. In addition, $30 million more will be paid by the Sonics
owners in five years if KeyArena is renovated, and the NBA does not
have ...
Sonics Oklahoma City bound —
Sports Business Radio blogs
At the end of the day, the city of Seattle had their price. Just like everyone has their price. And the price to relocate the Sonics from Seattle to Oklahoma City was $75M . The city gets much more than the $26.5M Sonics owner Clay Bennett originally offered, but they lose their NBA team that has played in the Emerald City since 1967.
The only potential good news for Seattle basketball fans ...
Sonics Sooner State Bound After Lawsuit Settled —
SPORTSbyBROOKS
The Supersonics can now move to Oklahoma Sooner than later, as a settlement has been reached with the city of Seattle .
The SEATTLE TIMES reports that city officials have reached an agreement with the NBA club over a lawsuit cocnering the team’s current lease with KeyArena. The city was suing the Sonics to force them to finish out the final two years of the lease, meaning the team ...
