Last night was fun and all, but tonight, with a complete 13-game schedule, the NBA is really set to thunder forward into action.
Many a thing to watch, and perhaps one of the most interesting ongoing stories will be everything and anything happening with the Seattle Sonics.
Quick recap – there’s a new ownership group made up of Oklahoma City businessmen, who everyone is 99% are planning to move the team to the OKC, while at the same time pretending they’re trying to work out an arena deal in Seattle.
Anyway, the OKC contingent became legit last week, and because of that, All-Star forward Rashard Lewis has pulled out of any attempt to negotiate a contract extension. Thus, he can become an unrestricted free agent next summer.
“We’re saying that right now, we don’t want to do an extension and we want to focus on the season,” [Lewis's agent, Kevin] Poston said. “There’s so many rumors, and not just with the team and the Seattle and the Oklahoma City thing, but rumors about the NBA in general. We just want to concentrate on the season and see how everything unfolds.
[Lewis himself]: “…you don’t know how the new ownership thinks about you or what they’re going to do. One thing about the old owners, I knew where I stood with them. I was comfortable with them because they watched me grow. Now, everything has changed.”
Our main question at this juncture is how badly new ownership face Clay Bennett is going to get booed if he shows said ownership face at a Sonics game.
This group is clearly lying to the fanbase, and now they’ve set up a situation where one of the team’s stars is disgruntled and (likely) distracted by having to inevitably talk about this every time a reporter shows up.
The winners here are teams looking for a good running mate for their star player, because there’s no doubt Seattle has to move Rashard rather than lose him for nothing.
We’d offer up the Cavaliers, but we don’t want to insult Larry Hughes or seem like we favor the Cavaliers in any way. Our goal, as always intended and always accomplished, is to remain nonbiased.
(Is it just us or does Clay Bennett always look like he’s on the verge of a heart attack, or at least a collapse of some sort?)
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When you tell people in L.A. that you are from Ohio, do they have any idea what the state is actually like or do they ask if you went to a lot of rodeos when you were a kid?
Actually, half the people I meet out here seem to be from the midwest, so it’s not the issue you’d think it is.
I tell them I went to a lot of rodeos anyway, though.
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