OMG you're in VIetnam! Who cares about an underachieving, pathetic NBA team??? Uh perspective? You are in Vietnam, you are very lucky, so write about that.

So, is KeyArena going away, too? The Thunderbirds are currently building a new venue in Kent...

Hope is all the Sonics had, and it never came.

Seattle should make a counteroffer if $26m is not enough. Grown ups would settle this type of suit.

And what could we do with $26 million if it was spread around for people's arts, culture and entertainment -- skate parks, boat rentals, openning Coleman pool sometime before mid-day in our short sumemr season, funding arts teachers and arts classes, dance studios and performance arts help.

Oops, we need the $26 million to pay off the Key Arena debt we happily underwwrote to subsidize millionaire sports leagues that cost $50 a ticket to enjoy. At the behest of "sports fans." It's all just gimme gimme payoff to a vocal faction. Seattle's operating principle is too often the Dooh Nibor principle: tax the poor, pay the rich.

If you are heading south-you must have dinner at Friends Cafe in Hoi An. It's on the water and the 4 course dinner is amazing. The white rose are the best things ever.

Garbles, come home.

Art Thiel puts all of this in reasonable perspective this morning. Nothing really has changed:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/thiel/351717_thiel18.html

I hope OK City is excited with what they're getting. The sellouts will end after three games, tops.

I agree with Theil. I wouldn't get too excited about this. Stern is just playing the role here. I also believe that there are other forces at work that will come to light after things are settled with the lease. The Sonics aren't going anywhere. As sports fans in Seattle, we should be pretty calloused to this kind of hot air.

Angela, I have to thank you for your article on hand-pulled noodles in this week's Stranger. Literally a day before, I was thinking, "Man, what I wouldn't give for a decent bowl of hand-pulled noodle soup." Besides the one in the ID, there's a good restaurant in Greenwood across from Gordito's.

Sad news about the Sonics, but I'm more of a Blazer fan anyway. B-Roy FTW!

Let's trade 'em for a hockey team.

@11 I'm in full agreement with you.

We don't have the demographic profile in this area that has the interest AND $$$ to host an NBA team. I think a LOT of rich affluent white folks are tired of watching some over privileged/under deserving black kids bouncing a rubber ball and getting paid WAAYYYYY more than they could ever possible deserve, and then flashing that very money around acting as if they are really worth that much.

The rich affluent white folks in this area would rather spend their recreational money doing other things.

Heck hockey is a better option any day. At least the players EARN their paychecks which are a fraction of the grotesque sums we pay NBA children.

I've maintained for a long time that an NHL franchise should be brought over to the affluent Eastside. There are MANY folks over here that would support such an endeavour.

Key Arena is a relic, and should be retired. Raze the building and rebuild one huge continuous park in that space connected to the current park.

Enough already.

Reality Check

Goodbye Sonics, Hello Blazers

(i am incredibly pissed that Bennett is pulling out the playbook from the movie Major League with our roster)