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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Attorneys for the Sonics called former Sonics executive Wally Walker to the stand this morning.
The first line of questioning by Attorney Paul Taylor to Walker delved into the Sonics successive failures to secure funding from state lawmakers in Olympia for a $200 million proposal to remodel KeyArena.
Taylor also used documentation to shows Walker's disappointment in the city's lack of effort in helping the Sonics secure funding in their final push in Olympia in 2006.
Taylor then moved on to talk about Walker's role as a consultant in helping the city and the law firm representing the city, K & L Gates, keep the Sonics in Seattle beyond the current KeyArena lease term.
Taylor showed documentation that Walker was retained for his services in Sept. 21 of last year by the city. However, emails by Walker show he may have been acting in that capacity as early as August of last year.
Taylor also presented evidence that Walker had access to a "poison well" document that shows an elaborate plan put together by K & L Gates attorney Slade Gorton to force the current ownership group to stay in Seattle and lose money so that Sonics Chairman Clay Bennett's group would be eventually willing to sell the team to a local ownership group.
