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"Bennett: Seattle holds key to arena solution"
Lo and behold, threats that the Sonics back out of the last few years of their lease at Key Arena appear to have been ... completely hollow. And now the ownership is trying to get back to the negotiating table. Nicholas says: Excellent! The Sonics were the first Seattle pro team I started rooting for; I've yet to give up my allegiance to the Braves, and the Seahawks sub-.500 years didn't inspire me. Sure, the Sonics were up and down, but I certainly didn't have any commitment to the Hawks, who have been varying degrees awful for about eight years now. I'd love to have the team stay, but there was no reason to meet ownership's demands for exorbitant public subsidies. Let's make a deal!
A public/private partnership to retool Key Arena would be just fine by me. There is a longer term question about what to do with Seattle Center, but that's somewhat separate from the question of what to do with the Sonics; if Seattle's going to have a pro basketball team, it has to play in Key Arena for the time being. Still, the city ought to be able to come up with renovations and revenue sharing agreement that Clay Bennett finds appealing. Seattle's a much larger and wealthier market than OKC. At the very least, Bennett will be able to flip the team to new owners and buy an expansion team for his home town.
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updated by Nicholas Beaudrot on 08:50 20 July 2007
