Adiós Seattle Supersonics

Clay Bennett, Seattle Supersonics current owner, has finally gone their way, based on Don Dinero. Move the team from Seattle to his native Oklahoma will cost $ 75 million.

Born in 1966 from the hand of businessman Sam Shulman and has since been called the Seattle SuperSonics. Many great players have passed through the template: Lenny Wilkens, Bill Russell, Paul Silas, Tom Chambers, Shawn Kemp, and the maximum respect of the last decade, Gary Payton. They only won a championship in 1979, but Seattle SuperSonics has been a fundamental part of the NBA today.

Now, after 41 years, Clay Bennett takes the NBA franchise to Oklahoma, leaving Seattle without a team and its inhabitants, despite the numerous efforts made to keep the team. "In a perfect world Clay Bennet would go without the Sonics, "said Steven Pyeatt, co-founder of the movement Save Our Sonics.

The new team will not be called the Oklahoma SuperSonics. The name, logo and colors remain the Seattle Supersonics in Seattle if you ever return to have equipment. In total, the team has cost Oklahoma Clay Bennett $ 425 million, of which 350 were to buy the equipment to the owner of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, who sadly sees as his previous property away from the city.

The city of Seattle will not be orphaned at all. In addition to maintaining the rights to the name, logo and colors of the Sonics, will also have a city museum trophies and retired jerseys to players. Although actually belong to Oklahoma, can only replicas.

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