Thunder Rumblings

The Seattle Times is reporting that the NBA worried last year that the Sonics Oklahoma owners may have violated their good faith promise to secure an arena deal in the Seattle area. The Tacoma News Tribune is reporting that the same judge presiding over the case between the Sonics...

Lester Munson, a man of many hats but namely a Chicago lawyer and a senior writer for ESPN.com, answered some questions about former Sonics owner Howard Schultz’s lawsuit against the current Oklahoma group. In this Q&A on ESPN.com, Munson says Schultz has a chance to rescind...

Lester Munson, a man of many hats but namely a Chicago lawyer and a senior writer for ESPN.com, answered some questions about former Sonics owner Howard Schultz’s lawsuit against the current Oklahoma group. In this Q&A on ESPN.com, Munson says Schultz has a chance to rescind...

We just learned that attorneys for former Sonics owner Howard Schultz today filed the expected lawsuit against the current Oklahoma-based ownership group. Schultz is claiming the Oklahoma owners did not act in good faith when trying to secure a new arena deal to replace KeyArena in Seattle, and...

By now you’ve heard that former Sonics owner Howard Schultz is suing the current ownership group to try to rescind the sale, claiming that the deal was done under fraudulently. Here’s the story from the Seattle Times.  Here’s the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s version. And...

Despite revealing e-mails that suggest Sonics Chairman Clay Bennett lied to NBA Commissioner David Stern about his intentions to keep the Sonics in Seattle, Stern said on Monday that he supports Bennett…… By Jeff Latzke AP Sports Writer Despite the release of e-mails that SuperSonics...

ESPN’s Emmy Award winning show Outside the Lines today ended with the poll question, “Should the NBA allow the Sonics to move to Oklahoma City?” I thought, no way there’s more than five percent in favor of the NBA moving the Sonics to OKC. So I waited until the end of the show to find...

You knew things likely wouldn’t turn out good for the Sonics owners when city of Seattle attorneys sought to obtain e-mails from the ownership group. Well, sure enough, there were some pretty revealing things found in those exchanges, The Seattle Times is reporting. As it turns out, three of...

You knew things likely wouldn’t turn out good for the Sonics owners when city of Seattle attorneys sought to obtain e-mails from the ownership group. Well, sure enough, there were some pretty revealing things found in those exchanges, The Seattle Times is reporting. As it turns out, three of...

DALLAS — So I made the short trip to Dallas to catch the Sonics-Mavs game Tuesday night and there just happened to be a lot of news. The biggest bit is that the Seattle-based investor group pulled the plug on their bid to buy the Sonics and help the city renovate KeyArena. I guess this news...

There seems to be a lot of steam building in favor of Atlanta Hawks forward Al Horford for this year’s rookie of the year award. My only question is why? It’ll be a shame if Kevin Durant doesn’t win the thing. Period. I suppose national writers are giving Horford...

A couple of interesting things around the Web worth noting. First, here is the entire piece TNT’s Inside the NBA did on the Save Our Sonics efforts out of Seattle. Part 1 and Part 2. It’s really a nice piece. That Jim Huber is something else. Sticking with the Sonics theme, there...

Updating a previous post, in light of Tuesday’s news that OSU made a coaching change in its men’s basketball program, we will not run the best jerseys and logos for OKC’s prospective NBA team in next Monday’s Main Event section. It will run the following Monday the 14th....

I was doing some research for something else I was working on and came across an interesting story in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The article is from Nov. 2, 2001, the day after the Memphis Grizzlies played their first game in the city after relocating from Vancouver. NBA Commissioner...