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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Hoopshype.com

Sonicscentral

SuperSonicssoul

Blazersedge

Blazersblog

BehindtheBlazers

Barrett'sBlazerblog

Blazerbanter

ThunderRumblings

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Keeping an eye on the NBA and Seattle's efforts to get back into the game
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 09:59:15 am

According to league sources, Seattle rookie Kevin Durant will be named NBA rookie of the year. The Sonics will have a press conference to announce the award on Thursday.

Durant finished ahead of Atlanta's Al Horford and Houston's Luis Scola to become the first Sonic to win the award.

Durant led all rookies in scoring (20.3 ppg.), free-throw shooting (87.3 percent) and assists (2.4 apg.). And Durant became just the third teenager in league history to average 20 points a game for a season, joining Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James.

Durant will travel from Washington D.C. to Seattle for Thursday's press conference.

In news involving the Sonics future location, Seattle law firm Byrnes & Keller accepted a summons regarding former Sonics owner Howard Schultz's lawsuit against the current ownership group on Tuesday, and will represent Sonics chairman Clay Bennett and the rest of the ownership group. Byrnes & Keller also is representing Bennett's group in the lawsuit vs. the city of Seattle.

Bennett's group has 20 days to respond to the complaint.

The Sonics finished final lease negotiations with Oklahoma City that include having Oklahoma City in its name should the team move there.

And here's an interesting article on the new revenue sharing package owners passed during the NBA Board of Governors meeting in New York, and how it could affect small market teams.

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