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
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Posted by Eric Williams @ 02:22:45 pm

In a move that further shows the Seattle SuperSonics' impending departure to Oklahoma City, the NBA switched the team's NBA Development League affiliate from the Idaho Stampede to the Tulsa 66ers.

Tulsa is about 100 miles northeast of Oklahoma City.

The Sonics had been affiliated with the Idaho Stampede since 2005, and shared that affiliation with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Now the Blazers and the Toronto Raptors, a team nearly 2,000 miles from Boise, will share affiliation with the Idaho Stampede, while the Sonics and Milwaukee Bucks will share affiliation with Tulsa.

Categories: NBA
Posted by Eric Williams @ 10:15:19 am

The Tim Donaghy referee scandal has turned up a couple notches, with attorneys for Donaghy revealing in a federal court filing on Tuesday that Donaghy alleges the NBA fixed games in the playoffs to help alter the outcome of series in 2002 and 2005 postseasons. Read more about the story here.

In particular, the officiating in the 2002 Western Conference finals in Game 6 between the L.A. Lakers and the Sacramento Kings has come under scrutiny. The Lakers shot 26 free throws, compared to six for Sacramento in the final quarter.

Sacramento Bee columnist Ailene Voisin revisits the game. Kings fans believe that game was an opportunity to raise a championship banner at Arco Arena stolen by the league.

Arizona product Jerryd Bayless worked out in New York on Tuesday. According to Bayless, recently hired Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni said the Wildcat combo guard could be the engine running the show, similar to Steve Nash in Phoenix, if New York selects the guard with the No. 6 overall draft pick. However, Bayless is not expected to slip past Seattle.

Jerry Colangelo, director of Team USA, said the group will select the final 12 for the roster headed to Beijing instead of having a tryout for the last two spots. An announcement of the final roster is expected soon after the NBA finals are completed.

Categories: NBA