Latest NBA News=Ok City Again?

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quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

There are no QT's in Oklahoma City.

There will be.

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QT > Loves

I have stopped at so many loves between here and Albuquerque, trust me... QT is way better.

[Rowdy]

OUCH!!

NBA Fines Sonics Co-owner $250,000 for Comments on Moving Team

Aug 23, 2:03 PM (ET)

By GREGG BELL

SEATTLE (AP) -The NBA fined SuperSonics co-owner Aubrey McClendon $250,000 two weeks after he said his group didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle.

League spokesman Mark Broussard confirmed the penalty Thursday, but said he did not immediately know the reason the fine was imposed. The comments of McClendon, an Oklahoma City energy tycoon, were at odds with commissioner David Stern's stated hope of keeping the Sonics in the city they've called home for all 40 years of their existence.

McClendon is one of four original partners with Clay Bennett in Professional Basketball Club LLC, the Oklahoma group that purchased the Sonics and WNBA's Storm for $350 million in July 2006. McClendon told an Oklahoma City newspaper earlier this month that the group has always hoped to move the NBA franchise to Oklahoma, but acknowledged the team could make more money in the Pacific Northwest.

"But we didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle; we hoped to come here," McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, told The Journal Record in Oklahoma. "We know it's a little more difficult financially here in Oklahoma City, but we think it's great for the community and if we could break even, we'd be thrilled."

The fine was previously reported by various Seattle media outlets.

The ownership group has set a deadline of Oct. 31 to secure an agreement for a new arena in the Seattle area. If a deal is not in place by then, Bennett has said he will begin the process of relocating the Sonics to Oklahoma City.

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The NBA is fascist...  you can't even say something if its the truth without getting fined.

Another reason I no longer care about that league (to go along with the fact the sport they play barely resembles basketball as I know it).

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Getting rid of Stern would help.

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While I hate what the game has become, Stern took the NBA from an AFL sized organization to a premier sports league in the world.  He's a golden boy.

Top revenue earning leagues:

NFL
MLB
NBA
English Premier Soccer
NHL  (MLS is rumored to be on the verge of passing the NHL)

I think he has earned a job for life for his business skills.  But I hate what he has done to the sport.