The REAL Axis of Evil...
Today, the Seattle Times reports that Howard Schultz plans to sue to get the Sonics back. The article states that Schultz “relied on promises made by Clay Bennett and his ownership that they desired to keep the team in Seattle and intended to make a good-faith effort to accomplish that” and he will be suing to unwind the deal. Now all of the sudden Schultz cares whether or not the Sonics stay? Suuuuuuuurrrrrrrre.....
When the sale was announced, people out there wanted to give Bennett the benefit of the doubt. We all wanted to believe that he would actually make a move to keep the Sonics in town. I can’t think of one single person who actually believed it though. Does anyone really believe that Schultz really thought a bunch of Okies wanted to own a team in Seattle
Either Schultz is the dumbest billionaire on the planet (which is quite possible), or this whole thing has been as rigged as a game officiated by Tim Donaghy from the start. I can easily imagine a plan hatched by the REAL axis of evil (Howard Schultz, Howard Stern and Clay Bennett) where an owner who is frustrated that his cash-strapped city has decided not to support the standard 200-300 million corporate NBA welfare program goes in with a commissioner fighting for the integrity of the game to sell to a redneck who just wants to feel like one of the big boys for a little while; hoping to scare the city into supporting this broke business model with a very real threat that the team will leave. Now Schultz gets to ride in to be the hero with some secret side letter to save the Sonics? This thing smells fishier than Starbucks’ Pike Place Blend.
Please Howard… Haven’t you already molested the city of Seattle
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