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TigerBait3 · Apr 1, 2008

BergeGFK said: ↑

I am a bad person...

When I saw they might leave the name the Sonics behind..

The first thing that came to my head was "The Oklahoma City Bombers."
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Its cool. My create-a-team name on sports games as a kid was always "The Terrorists." I even had a sweet logo of a samurai. Then Muslims ruined my fun.

Carface · Apr 10, 2008

Ruh roh.....

SEATTLE -- E-mails obtained by Seattle city officials suggest owners of the Seattle SuperSonics were privately talking about moving the team to Oklahoma City last April, at the same time they were publicly saying they were still seeking a way to build a new arena and remain in the Pacific Northwest.
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Last August, McClendon was quoted in an Oklahoma publication as saying, "We didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here."

At the time, Stern said there would be "a huge fine" if McClendon had been quoted accurately. The NBA later fined McClendon $250,000 for the comment.

In an e-mail dated Aug. 17 -- four months after the e-mail in which the team owners discussed an early departure -- Bennett told Stern, "I would never breach your trust. As absolutely remarkable as it may seem, Aubrey and I have NEVER discussed moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City, nor have I discussed it with ANY other member of our ownership group."
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3339895

Carface · Apr 15, 2008

Ruh roh again...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sonics/2004349361_schultz15.html

Howard Schultz says he wants the Sonics back.

Nearly two years after selling Seattle's NBA franchise to Oklahoma City investors, the Starbucks mogul has hired a lawyer and is preparing to file a lawsuit against Sonics chairman Clay Bennett to rescind the July 2006 sale.

Attorney Richard Yarmuth confirmed Monday that his Seattle-based law firm, Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo, is representing Schultz and plans to sue Bennett's Professional Basketball Club in the next two weeks.

"The damages that are being sought is to rescind, unwind the transaction," Yarmuth said a day after the team played what could have been its final home game in Seattle.

"It's not money damage. It's to have the team returned. The theory of the suit is that when the team was sold, the Basketball Club of Seattle, our team here, relied on promises made by Clay Bennett and his ownership that they desired to keep the team in Seattle and intended to make a good-faith effort to accomplish that."
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