Post-Sonics Watch
Feeling lost without your Seattle SuperSonics? Seattle-area NBA fans face their first season without an NBA team in 41 years. Primarily, our coverage here will focus on the City of Seattle’s attempt to bring the NBA back to Seattle. But we also will provide updates on the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oklahoma City Thunder and area players plying their trade for other teams in the NBA.

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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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 12:47:19 pm

After getting drilled twice by Denver the Sonics get a big, double-overtime win over the Nuggets on Sunday night at KeyArena.

Kevin Durant (37 points, nine assists, eight rebounds) and Jeff Green (35 points, 10 rebounds) both had career highs in points, and Durant made clutch 3-pointers at the end of regulation and in overtime to keep the game going.

Listen to Durant and Green talk about the win here.

Damien Wilkins also returned from a personal leave the proud father of a baby boy, Jayden Lamont Wilkins, his first child. Jayden is seven pounds and 20 inches long, and was born Wednesday morning.

Jayden and mother Traci are healthy and back in Atlanta resting.

Wilkins talks about being a father here.

Former Sonics coach George Karl also made what perhaps might be his last coaching appearance in KeyArena,although Karl remains positive a solution will come about that keeps the Sonics in Seattle. Karl wore a tie with the Space Needle painted on it in honor of the Sonics.

Mike Guardabascio of The Sporting Life parachutes in for the Denver game and offers his take on the Sonics situation.

Watch highlights from the game here.

Ron Tillery of the Memphis Commercial Appeal talks to Memphis Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley about the team’s future.

He asks Heisley about the potential sale of the team and this is what Heisley had to say.

Selling the Grizzlies appears to be on the back burner, too, at least for the moment. Heisley spoke publicly for the first time since the local ownership group went public with the dilution of its minority share and an “offer” to purchase the team.

The local group’s 30-percent stake dropped to 5.8 percent when they failed to make a capital call. Instead, the limited partners reportedly offered $300 million to buy the team.

Heisley wasn’t interested.

“An offer is made up of a lot of things,” he said. “There are various terms in the offer. There’s how definitive the offer is. There are set-offs against the price that’s put down. Without getting further into it, I’d just like to say the offer wasn’t satisfactory.”

Meanwhile, arena improvements for the Ford Center in Oklahoma City will begin in June.

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