We also saw resistance to Clays straw man proposal for an arena for two reasons. One, those that represented Seattle, wouldn’t support a deal that built an arena outside of Seattle that didn’t include paying off the debt on Key Arena from when the NBA asked for a “state of the art” remodel. Second Clay presented a proposal months late and with no substance behind it. There were no plans, no specs, no commitment for how the other 40% of the project would be paid for, and then refused to work with the lawmakers to flush out these issues.

You will never get a legislature to support anything that shoddy and as we now know it was because there was no intention of keeping the teams in Seattle. It was all for show so they could claim they tried but that Seattle failed. Seattle has done nothing but build what the Sonics and the NBA asked for, honored their end of a 20 year financial commitment, only to see a man without integrity try to rip the team from its heritage when the building is less than 10 years old.

This is wrong on every front and if the people of OKC seperated themselves from their personal desire to have a team in order to look at the real issues here they would not be happy to be part of this fiasco.