Comments on: Interpreting Schultz’s lawsuit

By: michael u.

michael u. — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:51:57 +0000

AND MARGIRITE IN RENTON HAS BEEN MUZZLED LIL PHILIP!!

By: michael u.

michael u. — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:51:15 +0000

philip,
seattle doesnt have a arena that meets nba’s standards?? why are the sonics still advertising the premium seats @ keyarena as “the best seats in pro sports” on thier website?? starting to sound a lil schizo to me. and NEWSFLASH (just confirmed at the courthouse downtown), the judge is going to grant the request (by the sonics) for a financial damge be accessed at the end of the trial, BUT, she is going to postpone the trial for 6 months which puts us at the beginning of the new nba season. WHAT THE??? philip, when you get confirmation of this news, please, please, reply!!!!! SEE YA’ALL IN ????????? LOL!!

MIKE U.

By: Huskies

Huskies — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:22:24 +0000

Very good news today!!
Now that we have the legal right to Sterns emails, we will find out what he really thinks about this deal. Can you say…sweating bullets! Hahaha!!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:49:03 +0000

How is offering only one option, a taxpayer funded, $500 million dollar arena, that’s not ever located in the city of Seattle a good faith effort??? How is stating when the team was bought that a KeyArena upgrade would be an acceptable option, yet later stating that it’s not an option, even going as far as to say that it’s never been an option, and calling talks with Seattles Mayor on the subject a “waste of time”, please tell me how this is a good faith effort??? Now if OKC approved a new $500 million dollar tax funded arena in Tulsa, I wouldn’t be so mad, but all they had to approve was a $100 million dollar renovation to the Ford Center. Sound familiar, wow, that’s just what we wanted to do to KeyArena, but thats not good enough here. hmmm, a $100 million dollar building renovation, in the 45th largest market in the US = Good, $300 million building renovation in the 14th largest US market, with a 41 year NBA history = Bad. Hmmm, something fishy about that. If Seattle had even been given a chance we could of gotten an arena deal, a fair one for the owners, the NBA, and the city. Yet we only got one option, and I challenge all fans to answer this, would you approve a $500 million dollar arena that’s not even located in your city, I think NOT!!!! Nobody would….I LOVE you Clay, and David!!!! There not two other guys on this planet I’d rather have trying to steal our team than you guys, you’ve brought us all a ray of hope, and I’ll never forget you!! Keep in touch via email!!

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:03:42 +0000

I personally can’t wait for e-mails that go like this:

Aubrey – Hey Clay, it’s 10 minutes before we have to present our arena proposal to the Washington legislature. Do you have an arena proposal yet?

Bennett – I do not. How about we just say the arena’s $500 million and it’s going to be in a small town outside of Seattle (I can probably find one on a WA map). We’ll say that we’ll pay $100 million and I’ll look for an old Staples Center in my basement and call that the new Sonics arena model.

By the way, do you think that $500 million is too little? They might actually go with it and get an arena built. Then we wouldn’t be able to move them like we planned all along since we bought the team.

Aubrey – Sounds good. I think $500 million is fine. Too high and people might get suspicious.

It’s a good thing that I can’t think of any possible way for the public to get their hands on these e-mails. Otherwise they would know we’ve been violating that promise to Schultz, which could land us in court, where we would almost certainly have to sell the team.

Bennett – Don’t worry, Aubrey. David Stern, the NBA comissioner, has our backs. He said he would defend us to the bitter end if these e-mails which he has already looked over several times (according to him) ever get out to the public.

By: The Future

The Future — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:11:59 +0000

The stonewalling over NBA internal emails is over and the exchange btw Stern and Bennett is evident. Stern steps down and new footsteps come from Dallas to stop the league from its growing slump.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:05:20 +0000

I have been reading the blog to get a different perspective on this whole mess of the law suits. I read a lot about what people were saying about the two law suits and the lawyers who were the brain trusts behind them. My two cents worth here was that Sentor Slade Gorton knows what he is doing when it comes to major league sports. Before Senator Gorton was Senator he was the lawyer that “brought the hammer down” on Major League Baseball when they ripped the Seattle Pilots out of Seattle after one year and through his efforts he is considered the savior of baseball in Seattle when MLB gave us the Mariners, when Seattle dopped thier suit. Don’t be fooled about Seattle and their determination when it comes to our sports teams we have been there before and we won then when everybody said we didn’t have a chance against MLB.

By: donuteyes

donuteyes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:33:53 +0000

of course the NBA’s owners approved the move, they’re looking out for one of their own. and they truly don’t care where any of their teams are, they want their money, however they can get it. the NBA is a weak league, growing weaker daily. bennett, while being a total under-handed businessman, is very rich (however he got it, that guy) and david stern isn’t in the business of turning away his rich homies. sad but true.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:47:52 +0000

I really don’t care if the team stays in Seattle or move to OKC. I have a question though. Please only answer it if you are not a complete retard, thinking that your biased comments will have any effect. So here is the question. The NBA is a franchisee like Little Caesars and Ace Hardware. No if they didn’t approve of the direction of the owenrship of one of its franchisee’s than I am sure they would remove their name from the store and take other legal action. What if anything can the NBA do to the city of Seattle or the new ownership? I would think that if the NBA doesn’t want a franchisee there anymore they could do something about it.

By: mickey

mickey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:41:26 +0000

We’ll have to wait to find out what the NBA decided and why. I guess that will come out in Court when Stern testifies.

Phillip, it’s called the Carrot and the Stick. Gordon holds out a carrot. “This is what we want to settle.” Shultz raps Bennett on the knuckles. “Here is the latest suit to get back our team and make show the World how dishonest you are..”