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Old 05-12-2008, 09:43 AM
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Default Re: More News on Sonics Lawsuit

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Originally Posted by RabidRed View Post
If the trust can't negotiate a lease and no one wants to buy the team, then what's stopping the NBA to declare the team dissolved and create a new team? Then they could place the team in OKC.
I HIGHLY doubt the NBA could do that.

You can't just snap your fingers and make a multimillion dollar entity vanish. There'd be an anti-trust suit filed against the NBA and the plaintiff would win. This is why voting whether to "allow" relocations is more of a formality than anything else. If a relocation were denied, off to court we go, and the plaintiff will win because the NBA is pretty much a per se violation of the anti-trust Act.
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