Once again, there is talk of the Seattle Super Sonics returning as an NBA franchise. The Seattle Times reported this past week of OVG, the company that built Climate Pledge arena and are credited to bringing NHL Kraken to town, has announced plans to build an NBA style arena in Las Vegas.
What does that have to do with us? Well, Seattle and Las Vegas are considered front runners to be awarded with expansion franchises. Since the plan would be to add two teams at once (as most major sports leagues usually do), it shows that plans for Seattle to obtain a team are not too far off.
The Sonics, at the time, the only major professional sports team in Seattle to have won a championship, left town in 2008 after a group lead by local owner Howard Schultz sold the franchise to Oklahoma City based Clay Bennett.
Area basketball fans were teased cruelly when San Francisco based hedge fund manager Chris Hansen tried to buy and move the Sacramento Kings, however, the NBA, which helped facilitate the Sonics move out of Seattle, staged a major effort to keep the Kings from relocating.
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