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Published: September 3, 2007
Bank shot? No good
Financing Sonics' move would tarnish city's image
Financing Sonics' move would tarnish city's image
Eighteen months ago, George Shinn told me he planned to keep his NBA Hornets in Oklahoma City and negotiate his way out of the New Orleans lease. Go to court, if he had to.
And if need be, Shinn said, he would ask Oklahoma City — elected officials, business leaders, presumably anyone who lives or works in OKC, you, me — to pay his way free.
Shinn eventually changed his mind. Decided the right thing to ...
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