An estimate from SuperSonicSoul that moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City will cost the ownership $162 million, with the claim: "If [Clay] Bennett had just offered two-thirds of that figure - $100 million - while in Olympia fourteen months ago, yesterday would never have happened, and the state would have easily passed the bill to either build a new facility or renovate KeyArena."
Team USA is sponsored by Nike, and every team member wears a Nike brand of some kind or another. Except Dwight Howard. And in this team photo, Howard is the only guy whose shoes happen to be blocked from view.
TrueHoop reader Kris points out that when the Expos left Montreal, their retired jerseys were lifted to the rafters by the other local professional teams. Wonder if the Mariners or Seahawks would do that.
Milwaukee GM John Hammond continues his talk with BrewHoop, acknowledging that getting Richard Jefferson changes things a bit for Joe Alexander: "'If you would have asked me two days before the draft what [Joe Alexander's] true position was, I would have said small forward. We acquire Richard and sit here the day after the draft, and now I might say he's a power forward,' Hammond says with a laugh."
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