The BOG vote was irrelevant

[srkboy23]

srkboy, not to belittle your hopes, but the hope you cling to appears to be based on the outcome of a lawsuit that has not been filed, and which may well never be filed.

I recognize you feel otherwise, but well, in my opinion threatened litigation and earnestly pursued litigation have little in common.

On your other point, yes, one can have more than one lease, and that is true whether you are a ball club, a home renter or a business owner relocating. Generally one lease is a current lease, and the other lease binds the parties beginning at a future date, the actual date being stated, or, as with PBC and OKC, conditioned on certain factors, i.e., the end of the existing lease by its terms or by agreement on a earlier date.



Everything will play out in time, and it is not only Seattle folks who are not four dquare with reality

First of all, thanks for clarifying that for me. But I think the OKC lease was going to start only if the BOG voted to approve the relocation and when the Sonics ended their KeyArena lease.

As for the lawsuit, Schultz at this point has no choice but to file it. If he doesn't file the lawsuit now, then he will have wasted millions on the law firm and will get worse PR than if he had never brought up the idea of filing a lawsuit in the first place

Just a tip...I would never use the Times forum as a reference for anything other than to prove how pissed off Sonics fans are

Those guys have been wrong about every single event so far and they are clinging to the last line in an article that makes no sense at all...It wasn't even discussed in the article just thrown in at the end...Hardly convincing

Since when did forums make unanimous decisions and predictions about events? As far as I've seen from the Seattle Times forum, a majority of the posters have been right about a number of things, including the lopsided BOG vote, Bennett being a liar (and Stern still supporting him), and Schultz filing a lawsuit.

I don't even know what "article" you're talking about. If you were talking about the first post in that thread, then I don't see what doesn't make sense about it. Because everything he said is true and just because it doesn't match what the OKC media has been telling you, doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense

pride comes before the fall... and
seattle seems to be on a downward spiral. they are so blinded by their arrogance that they never believed that lil' ol'oklahoma could come in and whisk away their team. schultz hasn't even filed the frikkin lawsuit!!! his case is laughable and the sonics now have a lease in okc that begins in 2010 or as soon as bennett pays off the lease. slade gorton and the mayor are only shooting seattle in the foot in regard to ever having the nba in their town again. bennett has ll the cards... stern even said "the current owners will fulfill the remainder of their lease and leave, end of story". at that point bennett leaves with the name and history and key arena still has debt. that is leverage and already a couple leaders in seattle are asking for a settlement.i fully expect a settlement once the shock wears off.

The city of Seattle is not going to offer or accept any sort of settlement from Clay Bennett. because if they do they know they won't be back in office come election day.

One thing all OKC fans should know, that most of us in Seattle don't want anything to do with the NBA if we lose the Sonics. They're bargaining chip of an expansion team won't work. We're going to be getting an NHL team sometime in the near future and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind having an arena like the Emerald City Center all to themselves.