Awaiting the Sonics verdict
It’s going to be a strange, strange day. We await the ruling from Judge Marsha Pechman, who will post her Sonics/Seattle decision on a federal court website at 6 p.m. Oklahoma time.
Do you remember the climactic scene in “A Time to Kill”? Everyone just milling outside around the Southern courthouse. The cameras don’t show us the courtroom. All of a sudden, the doors open, and a little kid screams the verdict. There’s an instant of silence, then pandemonium.
That’s what today will be like. The Internet has changed many things, and now it’s changed courtroom drama.
If the Sonics win, there is one major question. When are they coming? Immediately? Within a few weeks, which would bring the NBA to Oklahoma City?
If Seattle wins, there is one major question. Will the Sonics still come to OKC in two years? Does Clay Bennett and his partners have the stomachs and the pocketbooks to stick it out?
In the frantic two or three hours after 6 p.m., we’ll try to answer those questions for you. Until then, we’re like the interested residents in that sleepy Southern town, awaiting the fate of Samuel L. Jackson, awaiting the Internet doors to burst open and deliver the news.
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Comments
Are you kidding me. Do you realize what you are comparing this to? Have you seen the movie? Do you get paid to write things like this? Even if it was way too dramatic and inconsiderate it wasn’t even well crafted. “That’s what today will be like. The Internet has changed many things, and now it’s changed courtroom drama.”
So will it or won’t it be like that? What is your point?
Ah, I little too dramatic, me thinks.