Eric Williams covered the Sonics' last season in Seattle. A Tacoma native, Eric graduated from Mount Tahoma High and the University of Puget Sound.
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A quick look at some of the comments from individuals on the Sonics filing for relocation to Oklahoma City.
"The move today was no surprise. We continue to work with others on the arduous process of keeping the Sonics and Storm in Seattle."
-- Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire
“The history of sports is littered with franchises that intended to relocate, said they would relocate and for whatever reason didn't relocate,'' said Cornett, a former television sportscaster. "Things change. I don't anticipate anything changing, but things do change.''
-- Mick Cornett, Oklahoma City mayor
“It seems like a pretty transparent strategy on his part. We would much prefer that he work with us and the fans to be successful in Seattle, instead of trying to alienate the fan base and create a false financial crisis for the team to help his argument to break the lease. My advise to fans is to go to the games and prove him wrong.”
-- Tim Ceis, deputy mayor of Seattle
“We want to recapture the spirit and love of basketball in Seattle by bringing the Sonics and Storm back to local ownership,”
-- Dennis H. Daugs, a former minority owner of the NBA franchise, and part of a local investor group that offered to buy the Sonics
“Demonizing Clay is not going to help solve the problem. His group owns the team, and until the moving fans show up at the door and start moving sports material out, I think people should try to work with him to try and find a solution.”
-- Peter von Reichbauer, King County councilmember, and a person who helped broker previous deal to keep the Seahawks in town.
“The answer for Seattle always has been, and always will be that we get a building done. If we get a building done and we do it for Clay, or another ownership group then it does not matte what he has applied for or what he tells David Stern. Now is the time for the politicians to start sweating things a bit and make sure that we put the choice in front of the NBA. Do they abandon this market to satisfy a guy’s desire to fill his hometown market?”
-- Brian Robinson, Save Our Sonics and Storm
COMMENTS:
And I hate the guy too.
I only hope we can raise enough of a stink to make the rest of the country's fans, and then the league, take notice of the "it could happen to you" aspect of all this, and move to stop it.
I fully believe that Audrey what's his name told the thruth when he stated that their intention was to move the team to OKC from day 1. Only question is did Howard Schultz lie to us or did Bennett lie to Schultz?
David Stern is right up their with the rest of this rogue's gallery.
If someone buys a sports franchise, he buys into a commitment to people who have also committed their own money, time, energy, and passion to the team. It is a relationship. Like a marriage. You don't walk away from it thinking only of your self. You don't have the right to be that selfish.
If David Stern won't recognize that he is in a position to insist/assist all parties to behave with basic common decency. Then he will prove to have been a total failure.
so a serious question. what can we do? I mean, there is not link to the owners, the commish or the people that are important in this deal. i want the sonics to stay in seattle BAD, but i detest the thought of caving to clay bennett's ridiculous demands, accusations, lies and threats. he hasn't been fair, hasn't been truthful, and has always had an agenda which included never giving the seattle area a fair shake unless they bent to his will of an unrealistic proposal. if we were to build him his arena, the value of the franchise he buys goes up dramatically. why would i want to do that for this a**hole? i dont. i refuse to. bring me another owner that cares about this area and I will be more than happy to be taxed a dollar on my meal for an arena.
Same thing with the arena. Building a new arena -- whether it's publicly or privately financed -- benefits our area long term.
Mr. Bennett's doing what he has to do to show people here locally that he means business. He and business partners are from Oklahoma City, of course they want to move the team there. Now it's up to politicians, business people, and fans to join forces and put a concerted effort together that keeps the team here.
So if you're a Sonics fan, it's important to continue to go to games, to continue to talk to your local representatives about the importance of having the Sonics in your community, and to continue to hold people like Gov. Chris Gregoire's feet to the fire.
Key Arena actually had a higher attendance percentage than OK city last season and its important for that number to stay in the high 90's. Going to games this season isn't about winning now its about doing our part to watch this team win in the future.
I will be at every Sonics home game this season and I hope to see 17,000+ at every on to go along with chants of "Save our Sonics"
There's also a buzz created nationally by having a NBA franchise in your city. Again, I don't think you can put a value on that, but it adds to the wealth of entertainment opportunities available in the Seattle area.
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