I bought the Sonicsgate documentary on DVD. $20 on Amazon. Even downloaded it on my media phone. Watch it 2-3 times a year. Well worth watching the free long version on YouTube.

I think the Sonics moving was a horrible convergence of bad timing and egos. Howard Schultz and his 59 junior partners could have withstood the losses they might have been enduring for another decade and would have cashed out for a net profit had they stayed the course. They just lost interest, and no other people in a city loaded with able buyers got interested. Washington politics and personalities drove the situation to this bad end. There should never have been people from Oklahoma willing to buy the Sonics and consider moving them.

I think the only other team relocation that was close to being this unnecessary was the NFL Oilers moving from Houston to Nashville and becoming the Tennessee Titans.