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
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 01:19:00 pm

The NBA Board of Governors meeting was supposed to begin this morning, but actually will not start until later this evening, with owners arriving at the St. Regis Hotel here in New York City around 5 p.m.

There is an agenda for the meeting, which will take place this evening and tomorrow morning. The owners have scheduled a 2 p.m. press conference to discuss any action that takes place during the meeting. There will be no media availability today, but there’s plenty of media folks milling about the hotel waiting for the owners to show up.

Three things we know the owners will address is the Tim Donaghy referee scandal, revenue sharing and the Sonics application to relocate to Oklahoma City.

Right now, there’s a lot of stretch limos lined up in front of the hotel, with guys looking like they may have played a bit part in “Goodfellas” leaning on the hoods of cars and smoking cancer sticks.

I actually have some news to report, but it’s basketball related. The NBA hasn’t released it yet, but Kevin Durant has won the Western Conference rookie of the month again, this time for the month of April. That means Durant won rookie of the month every month this season accept for February, when Houston’s Luis Scola won the award.

Durant’s career-high, 42-point effort in the last game of the season couldn’t have hurt.

I didn’t get a chance to post this last night, but here are post-game interviews from Earl Watson and P.J. Carlesimo.

And I’ll talk to Seattle General Manager Sam Presti about the team’s off-season plans today. I’ll have an update from the ownership meeting and from Presti later this afternoon.

Categories: NBA
Posted by Eric Williams @ 12:01:15 am

Seattle rookie Kevin Durant teased Sonics fans tonight, showing them what they might see next season with a career-high 42 points, and earning his first double-double of the season by grabbing 13 rebounds.

With the win the Sonics finished the season 20-62, and with a little bit of momentum heading into next year.

Check out the box score here.

Durant said he had some extra motivation because his grandmother Barbara Williams, who rarely attends games, flew in to see the game, and he wanted to provide her something extra special.

Listen to Durant talk about the game here.

Seattle coach P.J. Carlesimo says the game shows his team has hung tough all season

That's it for now. I'm heading to New York and will provide regular updates on the meeting with the owners once I get there on Thursday.

Categories: NBA