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He also made the city’s attorney, Jeffrey Johnson from K&L Preston Gates Ellis—who was prone to freezing up into anxious minute-long silence when his exhibits were tossed, couldn’t identify documents, couldn’t get an objection sustained for his life, and elicited an incredulous, “That’s your response to his objection?” from Judge Marsha Pechman—look like an amateur.

That's our million dollar lawyer?

You know what happens when you sue over a sports team leaving? You piss a ton of money away, and in the end you get a half-assed garbage team in the next expansion that takes almost two decades to be even remotely interesting. That's what happened when the Pilots left.

Good thing I'm more of a soccer fan than a bball fan.

Should have taken the $26 million

WiS, once again, who cares.

@3 - You mean, other than the fact that you live in the worst country in the world to be a soccer fan?

its sad when the best you can say about your mayor is that he's better than Paul Schell.

All your millions are belong to our lawyers.

Is this trial being held in Oklahoma City?

Once again, why are we embroiled in these details? This should have been and still should be a simple matter of contractual obligations that a for-profit sports franchise owes us. How is it that our Mayor can turn this into a losing battle?

Again and again, we're squandering a perfect opportunity to send a message to the NBA and to embolden cities across the world.