Sonics coming back! The only piece of Seattle Sonics paraphernalia I own. The hat is from a season when the team was made up of names like Payton, Hawkins, Schrempf, Kemp, Perkins and McMillan. They won a franchise best 68 games taking Jordan's Chicago Bulls to six games in the NBA Finals.
I gave up on the league after the 1998-1999 NBA lockout. It's hard to get behind two groups, players and owners, arguing over such obscene amounts of money. The Paul Westphal led .500 club that finished that strike-shortened year certainly wasn't going to bring me back and the inept years of Howard Schultz's ownership wasn't going to bring me back. It might be a while longer before I am again a fan of the NBA. But that doesn't stop me from being excited for those in Seattle that are. It is big news here that an agreement has been reached between ownership groups that will relocate the Sacramento Kings to Seattle as early as this October. The announcement comes seven years after Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz sold the franchise to an Oklahoma ownership group headed by Clay Bennett and five years after that ownership group moved them to Oklahoma City. The sale must be approved by the NBA's relocation committee, headed by Clay Bennett.
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