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, June 5th, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 10:24:19 am

In a filing late Wednesday the Sonics responded to former Sonics owner Howard Schultz's lawsuit in federal court, which seeks to undo the sale of the team because of breech of contract, fraud and negligent misrepresentation.

In the eight-page filing, attorneys for the Sonics deny the ownership group led by Sonics chairman Clay Bennett group lied to Schultz when they bought the franchise in July 2006, and that the group followed through with the contract stipulation to make a "good faith best effort" to get an arena deal done in Seattle for 12 months after the sale in the group's unsuccessful attempt to secure funding for a $500 million new arena in Renton.

Attorney's for the Sonics contend the lawsuit filed by Schultz should be dismissed.

In the filing attorneys for the Sonics also argue it's impossible to unwind the sale because of several transactions that have occurred since the deal, including he sale of the Seattle Storm to a local ownership group, and the pursuit to move the team to Oklahoma City, including a public vote to secure funding to upgrade the city's Ford Center, and a binding lease for the team to begin playing at the Ford Center beginning in the 2010-11 season.

The two sides are scheduled to meet before U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman, the same judge presiding over the trial between the City of Seattle and the Sonics, on June 30.

Read the filing here.

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