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Grasping at Sonics
November 08, 2007NBA commissioner David Stern is sticking his nose in the Seattle SuperSonics' -- but namely the city of Seattle's -- business, but is it too late to garner any effective change?
On Thursday, Stern blasted city and state officials for letting things deteriorate to the point where the team could be the Oklahoma City Sonics sometime in the near future.
According to the embattled commish, if the Sonics move away from the Seattle, the NBA would likely abandon the city as well. In other words, Seattle won't get the Cleveland treatment administered by the NFL when the Browns transformed into the Baltimore Ravens back in 1996.
This may or may not be good news for the people of OKC, who showed they could support an NBA franchise by babysitting the Hornets for the rebuilding city of New Orleans the past two seasons.
In reality, this feels more like a last-ditch effort by Stern to regain some of the credibility he lost in the referee scandal -- and a transparent one at that.
Ultimately, it's not Stern's decision anyway and he should probably just exercise his right to remain silent -- just as he did at the outset of the Tim Donaghy mess.
Posted by Stephen Smith at 10:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
