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On Tuesday, March 2nd, Seattle U is hosting their last home game of the season and are partnering with us for a "Save Our Sonics" night.
This is a chance to wear your Green and Gold, hang out with the old crowd, send a message to the NBA and Olympia that we want a team back, and to enjoy some exciting College Basketball.
SOS leadership, Sonics Alumni, and most of the Sonics "Super Fans" will be in attendance as we hold a tribute to "The Voice" Bob Blackburn.
Tickets are only $5 with proceeds going to SOS and the Sonicsgate Movie.
Make sure you use promotion code "Sonics" when ordering tickets.
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July 2nd, 2008. Mayor Nickels, after repeated public statements, and sworn testimony in Federal Court, pledging to enforce the Key Arena Lease and lock the Sonics in for at least two more seasons in Seattle, announced that he had signed a deal letting the team move to OKC.
This date united Sonics fans with one goal, to remove the Mayor and find a leader willing to be proactive in the return of the NBA to the region.
On August 18th they accomplished that goal as the Mayor failed to advance out of the primary election. In his concession speach the Mayor said he was more interested in doing what was best for the city than being popular. Now he has a chance to back those words up with action.
We call on the Mayor to work hard the next four months in a "good faith, best effort" to complete the task of getting Clay Bennett on the hook for the last $30 million in the legal settlement and setting the stage for the new administration to bring the NBA back in the next 5 years. It will take hard work and creative thinking but we are willing to do our part if the Mayor will do the right thing and honor his commitment to the fans.
Shortly we will meet with the candidates for Seattle Mayor and King County Council to learn who will be proactive in the restoring Sonics Baskeball. We will expect a high level of commitment from these candidates and will work with them to accomplish the goal.
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Monday, October 1, 2007 a complaint was filed in King County Superior Court against the Professional Basketball Club, LLC. The complaint alleges misleading advertising, Consumer Protection Act Violation, and other deceptive actions by the Oklahoma-based Sonics onwership as part of the team's 2007 marketing campaign.
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Save Our Sonics and Storm |
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Save Our Sonics and Storm was formed as a grassroots effort to show that the people of the Pacific Northwest are passionate about the things that make this region great. Professional basketball, like Baseball and Football, are parts of the fabric that make for a diverse community. |
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We are here to unite those interested in keeping the team in the area and work with elected officials to motivate them to work out a solution that can keep the team here.
To succeed we will need the support of thousands of people who will join the cause. Please sign up for the "Action Alerts" at the top of the page and you will be updated when you can help with emails, phone calls, or attending events.
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The response has been overwhelming, thank you to everyone who is signing up to help and donating to the cause.
If you are willing to invest a few hours a week into saving our Sonics and Storm, please drop us an email at volunteers at saveoursonics dot org
If you can’t spare the time we could always use a donation. The money will go to good use and only towards hard costs for things we can’t barter or borrow. We are a true grassroots group just in it for the satisfaction of knowing they helped keep the team here. Surplus funds (if any) will be donated to the Boys and Girls Clubs in King County. J
For more information on the group, or how to become involved in the groups leadership, please contact us via email at: info at SaveOurSonics dot org |
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Interesting articles |
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It'd be the little guy who is hurt by Sonics' departure - Sunday, February 17, 2008
By Jerry Brewer - Seattle Times staff columnist
In a near-empty bar, Bob Wolf lifts a beer to his lips and tastes the good life.
"Time goes fast when you're having fun," he says.
This is how his workday starts, almost always. Wolf is so consistent you could use him to tell time. Hours before every Sonics home game, he visits Floyd's Place, jokes with the workers, drinks one Miller Genuine Draft, lets it settle and walks across the street to KeyArena, enthused over another night of meeting people.
Wolf collects tickets at the arena, and he does it with unceasing magnetism — handshakes, hugs and hilarity all night long. He is 72, with asbestos festering in his lungs, but he could pass for 55. Since 1967, back when the Sonics franchise had a pacifier, he has worked in their arena.
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Financing Sonics' move would tarnish OKC's image
By Berry Tramel - Oklahoman Staff Writer - Eighteen months ago, George Shinn told me he planned to keep his NBA Hornets in Oklahoma City and negotiate his way out of the New Orleans lease. Go to court, if he had to. And if need be, Shinn said, he would ask Oklahoma City — elected officials, business leaders, presumably anyone who lives or works in OKC, you, me — to pay his way free. Shinn eventually changed his mind. Decided the right thing to do was go back to the Big Easy and give it the old pro try.
But Shinn's plan was resurrected last weekend with a different owner and a different franchise, according to the Tacoma News-Tribune, which reported that Seattle SuperSonics chairman Clayton Bennett told employees Oklahoma City is willing to pay the freight, quite literally, to bring the NBA franchise here.
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A local hoop hero's plea to keep the team here
Seattle Times Guest Column by Detlef Shrempf
This past week, I was able to read up on most of the material in the newspapers in regards to the future of the Sonics. The discussion has been long-running and I would like to express my opinion and personal feelings, not as a current member of the Sonics staff, but as a committed and active member of this community. I was deeply saddened by what I read and I was almost resigned to the fact that we might actually lose the team.
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We all lose out if we lose the NBA
Excerpts from an article by Steve Kelley, Seattle Times staff columnist
But we all know how close we are to losing the Sonics.
We know how close to losing 40 years of memories we are. Forty years of families going to games, 40 years of Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Havlicek and Walt Frazier, Julius Erving and Bill Walton coming to town. Forty years of watching Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone, John Stockton and Isiah Thomas.
We are this close to losing that. Unless the state legislature agrees to contribute $300 million to help fund a new multi-purpose arena, the NBA will be gone.
It's that simple. And it's that sad. Something has to be done.
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