According to The Oklahoman today, Oklahoma City officials sent a nine-page letter to former Sonics owner Howard Schultz's attorney Richard Yarmuth, stating that if Schultz receives the Sonics back and does not move the team to Oklahoma City by 2010 they will file suit against Schultz.

Oklahoma City officials have negotiated a lease agreement with the Sonics Oklahoma City-based ownership group for the team to play its home games at the Ford Center beginning the 2010-11 season.

Yarmuth filed a lawsuit for Schultz against Sonics chairman Clay Bennett and the rest of his ownership group on April 22, seeking to undo the sale of the team because of breach of contract. In the suit Schultz claims that Bennett failed to honor a "good faith best effort" stipulation in the sales agreement.

In today's letter, Wiley Williams, an assistant municipal counselor for the city states: "there is an expectation by City leadership and citizens that the owners of the Team, whomever they may be, will honor all of the Team's contractual obligations with the City — including the contractual obligation to relocate to Oklahoma City and to play home games at the Ford Center for the duration of the term of the lease."

Williams also states in the letter that the city is prepared to sue if the Sonics do not relocate.

Check out the letter here.

Also, listen to a Sonics roundtable on the latest court dealings with Seattle P-I's Greg Johns, myself and KJR Dave "Softy" Mahler here.