To Oklafuckinghoma.
No offense to OKC, but this move is the equivalent of millionaires moving from their mansion to a trailer park.
With e-mails, Sonics turn tables on city of Seattle
Associated Press
Updated: June 24, 2008, 9:45 PM ET
SEATTLE -- Turns out, Seattle leaders have some issues with e-mail, too.
After months of enduring bombshell releases of incriminating messages that seemed to doom their case, the SuperSonics have produced damning e-mail from Seattle power brokers in the trial that will determine whether the team will move to Oklahoma City or be forced to play the final two years of its lease at Seattle's KeyArena.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman will hear closing arguments Thursday to end this six-day trial.
The Sonics lawyers introduced evidence last week showing the former U.S. senator whom the city hired to lead its effort to keep the team was involved in a "poisoned well" plan to force Sonics owner Clay Bennett -- the supposed villain in this civic drama -- into losing so much money he would sell the team to local buyers.
But how much will that matter?
Pechman will be focused on the case's fundamental issue: Exactly what does the Sonics' lease require? And what is the appropriate remedy for the final two seasons of it, which Bennett's Professional Basketball Club LLC wants to buy out so it can move the Sonics to the owners' hometown for the 2008-09 season?
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