Why the Sonics are Leaving Seattle

So my loyal reader may or may not care that the Sonics look like they are going to Oklahoma — good luck signing free agents.  Anyway, up here in the Pac NW, there are many questions as to why the league and Commish are not at all supportive of the Sonics staying. 

I think we know why.

Read the following from an email exchange between Clay Bennett, owner of the Sonics, and Commissioner David Stern:

“You are among the very few, notwithstanding our relative brief actual physical time together, that have significantly affected my life.  I view you as a role model, as an extraordinary gifted executive, a deep and passionate thinker, and a person with a rare and unique charisma that brings out the best in everyone you touch.  You are one of my favorite people on earth.”

What?  My goodness, my wife wishes I were so romantic.  Who writes this stuff?  Bennett is rich enough to own a professional sports franchise, and Stern, technically, works for him…..

Creepy.

Hopefully the Hornets and CP3 will come to Seattle — I would miss Durant, but not Clay.