Seattle Supersonics Moving To Oklahoma City?...The franchise was sold today.

[Don Jacob]

Unless he's talking about Oildale ....no i don't know how'd that be even remotely close to describing bakersfield.

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There's no trailer trash in Baskersfield? LOL.

[Fuck Your Existence]

Unless he's talking about Oildale ....no i don't know how'd that be even remotely close to describing bakersfield.

lol,no hate involved homie...i grew up in Cen-Cal,aka meth capitol of the world which goes hand in hand with white trash,trailer trash,tweekers etc.....

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New Seattle Arena In Washington?

By Darnell Mayberry
Staff Writer

An Indian tribe offering the Sonics a place to build a new home in Washington state unveiled a study Monday showing the proposed site is close enough to draw from the NBA team's Seattle-area fan base.

Commissioned by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, the study counters Sonics chairman Clay Bennett's stated concern that the site was too far from the Seattle suburbs. The 26.5-acre site the tribe is offering to donate is next to a horse racing track in Auburn, a 25-mile car ride from downtown Seattle.

The study, conducted by Washington D.C.-based Brailsford and Dunlavey, says the 18,500-seat arena would cost $452 million if construction began in 2009. But the report does not address how it would be financed, which has been the biggest problem Bennett and his co-owners have had since purchasing the NBA franchise last year.

"We're not at that point yet,” said Muckleshoot spokesman Rollin Fatland. "The next thing that has to happen is if people think this is worth moving forward with we will re-engage Brailsford & Dunlavey to do the economic study and the financing study. Until that is completed it will be premature to talk about who's going to pay for what.”

What is also unclear is how receptive NBA commissioner David Stern will be to the proposed location. The Muckleshoot Tribe owns and operates gambling establishments, including a casino on its land. Stern, who is dealing with the aftereffects of a gambling scandal involving an NBA referee, has rejected repeated overtures to locate a team in Las Vegas.

Fatland said the Muckleshoots have not attempted to involve the NBA with the proposed arena site.

From a pure location standpoint, however, the study indicated little difference between the proposed Auburn site and the Sonics' current home at KeyArena. In fact, in some cases an Auburn arena compared more favorably.

Bennett, who has maintained he would move the team to Oklahoma City if an agreement on a new arena isn't reached by Oct. 31, received a copy of the report on Saturday. A spokesman for the Sonics' ownership group said the group would have no comment on the study.

The study projects that by 2012 there would be more households within a 30- , 45- and 60-minute car ride of an Auburn arena than KeyArena. The report says KeyArena has a slight advantage in households with higher income, but Auburn has a marginally higher income for all other income percentages.

The potential Auburn arena is projected to cost almost $50 million less than the state-of-the-art multipurpose facility that Bennett proposed in Renton, another Seattle suburb. The proposed Renton project, which had an identical seating capacity as an Auburn, called for $300 million in public support. But it was never allowed to be voted on by the state legislature.

Fatland said the Muckleshoot Tribe became more serious about offering its land when no progress was being made between the Sonics and the city of Seattle and state of Washington.

Fatland said Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire was also sent the study late last week and that Bennett did respond via e-mail on Saturday morning to thank the tribe for the study.

Holly Armstrong, a spokeswoman for Gov. Gregoire, said the report was received by the governor's office on Friday, but as of late Monday Armstrong said Gregoire had not read the report.

Although Fatland repeatedly referred to the next step as being "a regional decision,” made primarily by Gov. Gregoire and three local businessmen she recently assembled to analyze arena options, Armstrong declined to weigh in on the study or place any future onus solely on the state. She added that Gregoire doesn't have any meetings scheduled with Bennett.

"It's not a deal between the Muckleshoots and the governor at this point,” Armstrong said. "This was a market analysis that was unsolicited that they submitted. (Gov. Gregoire) will certainly keep it in mind if and when a proposal comes. You have to remember, the (Oct. 31) deadline is not a state deadline. It's a deadline that was imposed by the Sonics. Everybody's not working on the same timeline.”

According to the study, Seattle-area businesses would prefer an arena in downtown Seattle, Bellevue or Renton. But the study showed that businesses would support an Auburn site if it was the only option that would keep the Sonics in the Seattle area.


They might stay after all...

[Don Jacob]

There's no trailer trash in Baskersfield? LOL.

NW bakersfield -rich area
NE bakersfield - Middleclass haven
SW bakersfield- Middleclass haven
SE bakersfield- in the process of being developed....alot of college kids
W bakersfield- mix of snoby rich people, and lucky bastards who were fortnate to live there back when housing was ALOT cheaper, and for some reason a lot of asian people
S bakersfield- negro town USA
E bakersfield- lil tiajuana
N bakersfield- where oildale is located...<---where your white trash is located (meth capitol USA, when you cross the bridge into oildale that whole 100 sq foot block has the largest concentration of drugs in america)



^ as you can see 1/8 of bakersfield is HICKISh these days.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

There's no trailer trash in Baskersfield? LOL.

NW bakersfield -rich area
NE bakersfield - Middleclass haven
SW bakersfield- Middleclass haven
SE bakersfield- in the process of being developed....alot of college kids
W bakersfield- mix of snoby rich people, and lucky bastards who were fortnate to live there back when housing was ALOT cheaper, and for some reason a lot of asian people
S bakersfield- negro town USA
E bakersfield- lil tiajuana
N bakersfield- where oildale is located...<---where your white trash is located (meth capitol USA, when you cross the bridge into oildale that whole 100 sq foot block has the largest concentration of drugs in america)



^ as you can see 1/8 of bakersfield is HICKISh these days.

Everytime I stop by Bakersfield, it makes me wanna say "Rubb-bubb-bubb-bubb-beccccaaa!"...Shit seems hick to the fullest to me. Then again, I don't live there...PeACe

[Don Jacob]

where are you stopping at?, like i said there's only one hick part of town and that's north bakersfield....in oildale which is like oldschoolto the fullest.

[everlast1986]

Seattle files lawsuit against SuperSonics' attempt to move
 
By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
September 24, 2007

SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle city officials filed a lawsuit Monday to keep the SuperSonics from leaving town.

The lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court was a counter move to a Sonics' attempt to be released from their lease on KeyArena.

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According to the complaint, "The Sonics promised to 'play all home games ... exclusively"' at the arena at the Seattle Center through Sept. 30, 2010.

"The city, with the help of some fine lawyers, is standing up to a pro sports team," city attorney Tom Carr said at a news conference. "Too often, pro sports teams have run over local governments."

Sonics chairman Clay Bennett said Friday the club has requested an arbitration panel to rule that the NBA franchise does not have to play the final two seasons of its lease at KeyArena, arguing that the contract allows a negotiated buyout.

Such a ruling would allow the Sonics to relocate after this coming season unless the club secures a new arena in the Seattle area by Oct. 31.

Carr disputed claims by Bennett that the Sonics are losing money because of the arena lease, described by NBA commissioner David Stern as the worst for any team in the league.

"The issues with the Sonics' profitability at KeyArena have less to do with KeyArena than with the Sonics' ability to defend the high pick and roll," Carr said.

Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, a lawyer who was instrumental in preventing the departure of the Seattle Seahawks under former owner Ken Behring, said at the news conference that while many disputes that could arise under the lease are subject to arbitration, the duration of the lease is clearly excluded.

The ultimate goal of the latest legal maneuver is to keep the Sonics in town permanently, whether under Bennett or a new, local owner, Gorton said

The lease makes it clear that the Sonics agreed to play all their home games in KeyArena for the duration of the agreement, and Bennett seems to have planned from the outset to move the club to Oklahoma City, Gorton said.

"They made the kind of demands that, from my perspective, were almost designed not to be met," Gorton said.

 
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-supersonics-keyarena&prov=ap&type=lgns

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