Sonics are as good as gone?

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Saw this on Deadspin today. Apparently Aubrey McClendon revealed in an interview with the Oklahoma City Journal Record that the plan has always been to move the Supes to OK city.

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"We started to look around, and at that time the Sonics were going through some ownership challenges in Seattle,” McClendon said. “So Clay, very artfully and skillfully, put himself in the middle of those discussions and to the great amazement and surprise to everyone in Seattle, some rednecks from Oklahoma, which we’ve been called, made off with the team. At any rate I’m pleased to be part of the ownership group and Clay has done a terrific job of managing the process.”

McClendon said the team would probably make more money if it stayed in Seattle.

“But we didn’t buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here,” he said. “We know it’s a little more difficult financially here in Oklahoma City, but we think it’s great for the community and if we could break even we’d be thrilled.”


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This is pretty weak. And that's coming from a Blazers fan.