Slog - Comments on Court Report http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report The Sonics story is all over the basketball blogs. (Even my favorite Washington Wizards blog is on about Save Our Sonics.) Today, True Hoop, theee basketball blog, has a roundup. Yesterday, True Hoop linked local sports writin' wonder Seth Kolloen's take on the story. The most interesting link, however, is to a straight-up legal blog, Above the Law, which pans Howard Schultz's plan to sue Clay Bennett. Schultz is accusing Bennett of bad faith for saying he intended to keep the team here. As The Seattle Times recently reported with a trove of emails, Bennett was BSing about that. Here's... Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:54:24 -0800 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:41:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by DOUG. Schultz's lawsuit is all about saving face in his home town. I used to love the Sonics. but if this is how the NBA is going to do business, then fuck them all. Their chickenshit shall come home to roost.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001040 News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:45 -0800 Comment by Daniel I've never been much of a b-ball fan, so I never went to see a Sonics game when I lived in Seattle. That being said, bad-faith owners seem to have a history in Seattle, and I do remember anguishing over the difficulties with M's and Seahawk ownership.

My advice to the city of Seattle would be to negotiate with Bennett to keep the Sonics name for Seattle, let him take his pathetic team to OKC, where its sure to lose money, they don't want the OKC SONICS anyway so it should be a no brainer. Then sue the bejeezus out of the NBA for foisting this bad-faith ownership upon the city and causing so much grief. Fresh team, same name, fresh start. Easy peazy.

]]> Daniel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001084 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001084 News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:25:12 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Uh, Daniel, this "pathetic team" has the 2008 Rookie of the Year in Kevin Durant, another top 10 rookie in Jeff Green, a good possibility of getting the #1 overall pick next year and a crapload of first round draft picks coming up. Don't let this tank job of a season fool you: This is a dynasty in the making.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001099 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001099 News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:33:07 -0800 Comment by Cale cluuuusterfuck

]]> Cale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001137 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001137 News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:58:39 -0800 Comment by AnonymousCoward Above the Law isn't a legal blog. It's a gossip rag for those in the legal community.

]]> AnonymousCoward http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/court_report#c1001260 News Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:41:03 -0800