Breaking News: Clay Bennett Shocks the World, Applies for Relocation of Sonics
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by SSR
This story has just been reported about an hour ago, Seattle Sonics owner Clayton Bennett, has, get this, filed for permission to move the team to Oklahoma City!!
WELL WHO DIDN'T GET THAT ONE RIGHT??!!!
So the reason? There is no support for a new arena in Seattle. I think, that it would make no sense to give a mediocre team, a spanking new arena in Renton (there's also a Boeing plant there, so that arena would be wrecked by a faulty plane). Here's one of the quotes from Mr. Bennett himself:
"Even though our proposal for a new state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility to be built in Renton was thoughtfully developed by a world-class team, was financially reasonable and was realistically attainable, we were unable to persuade the Washington Legislature to vote on our bill," Bennett said in the statement.
A truly tragic case, but you know what? It's not his fault. The blame for this whole snotstorm is directly linked to Howard Schultz and former GM Rick Sund.
Remember when Schultz and Sund were making all of the good moves and took the Spurs to 6 games in the 2005 playoffs? Well Sund did his part by letting go of (IMO), the most qualified coach for Seattle, Nate McMillan, and getting rid of Jerome James and Antonio Daniels, key players in this situation. So now Sund fusterclucks, the Sonics play like crap, and we start over. Sund stays, but Howard Schultz wants to take blame. He cops out of a messy situation, and lets Bennett buy the team.
In the 2006 NBA Draft, they selected Saer Sene, from Senegal (10th pick, round 1). That is retardation beyond my wildest dreams. He was sent down to the NBDL, and the Sonics proceeded to cut another draft pick. New season, same crappy team. Sund's gone, start over.
Then there are the rumors of Oklahoma City, Las Vegas, and all of this could've been avoided, if it weren't for Sund and Schultz. They screwed up the team chemistry.
Bennett's obviously moving the team to OK for the sake of having a hometown team. Look at it logically, Okla. City has a smaller market, smaller fanbase, but a kick ass arena. It wouldn't make sense to move a mediocre team, to a city longing for one.
Sorry Seattle, but the nice ironic part of this story, the coffee man (Howard Schultz), likely came back to bite you in your Mocha filled ass.
Source: Seattle Times
