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
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 08:47:13 pm

BY ERIC D. WILLIAMS
Eric.williams@thenewstribune.com

Attorneys for the Sonics filed a motion in federal court on Friday arguing against documents from Seattle developer Matt Griffin being sealed for attorney’s eyes only and not available for members of the Sonics ownership group to view.

Friday’s filing was the latest in court proceedings leading up to the June 16 trial between the City of Seattle and the Sonics over terms of the KeyArena lease.

The city filed a lawsuit against the Sonics to force the team to honor the last two years of its lease, which ends in September 2010.

View Friday's filing here.

The filing claims that Griffin, who serves as spokesperson for a private investment group trying to secure arena funding for an NBA team in Seattle, has not met the heavy burden necessary to establish confidential treatment for the documents.

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