Well, I sympathize but I disagree with this guy placing the blame with David Stern and the NBA. The Sonics are a money losing franchise in Key Arena. The blame is squarely with the state legislature who are cool with spending tax money to pay for incredible football and baseball stadia (a movable roof? wtf!), but basketball will have to make do. What's insulting is to now hear proposals in the legislature to rebuild Husky stadium with tax money. I hope Oklamhoma City likes their new team.

In my opinion, Stern deserves blame because he is not looking out for the best interest of the NBA, just his longtime friend, and knew what he wanted from the outset of all this. And while I agree some public funding is neccessary for this, is it really fair to ask taxpayers to pay again for what they already did in '95? They paid for a remodel that Stern himself said created a facility of the future. I mean C'mon...Bennett is a Billionaire...does he really need to be subsidized?

You know on the plus side, when the Sonics leave it doesn't mean another team couldn't move into Seattle or that another team couldn't be created if the situation changes. I am thinking about the Charlotte Hornets who went to New Orleans and then the Bobcats were created a few years later.

The fact is that Key Arena is the worst NBA arena by far and having more seats and more luxury stuff makes money for the organization. Even if Bennett and his group are billionaires, it doesn't make sense to run a team at a loss year after year. Some reports say that the Sups lost $60 million under the 5 years that Howard Schultz ran it. Bennett has indicated that the year before he bought the team the owners lost $17 million. In the end, Bennett is a business man and it makes more sense to just move thing to a town who badly wants a team and who has a waiting arena, than to shell out additional millions to build the city of Seattle a better arena. After all, Paul Allen is also a billionaire and the city ponied up tax money for football.