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Originally Posted by RabidRed
In reading what is being presented it appears the the City of Seattle considers the Sonics very important to the city. As I would paraphrase, important to the fabric of the city. They have pointed out how important it is to have players go to schools and such to improve the "fabric".
Well I think an astute judge would give the city three choices:
1: Let the team leave and pay off the lease.
2: Have the team stay one more year and forgive the last year's lease.
3: Since the team is so important to the "fabric", forgive the last two years lease in
return for the team to stay those two year.
Otherwise the judge should look at this an consider that all the arguments are tongue in cheek and the city just wants to bleed the team before they leave.  |
If the team is so terribly important to the fabric of the city, why did its' populace pass I-91 shortly after Bennett bought the team? Why did the mayor refuse to consider at least putting the arena up to a vote? Why did he and the city council not lobby the state legislature to seriously consider the arena bill? My take is that the team is terribly important to the fabric of the city as long as Bennett was willing to pay hundreds of millions for the team, assume all losses AND build a multimillion dollar arena. Where was any gesture by the city showing Bennett, David Stern and the NBA how important the team was to them?