Save Our Sonics

Save Our Sonics

Save Our Sonics, or SOS, is a Seattle activist group that is trying to permanently secure professional basketball in the Seattle area. They were founded in 2006 in reaction to Howard Schultz's sale of the Seattle Supersonics to Clayton Bennett, who had proclaimed to Oklahoma City residents only a few months earlier that he and his fellow investors were "100% committed to finding a team for this city in the long term." [cite news
date = 2006-02-11
url = http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/hornets/2006-02-11-ownership_x.htm
title = Oklahoma investors group seeks stake in NBA franchise
publisher = USA Today
accessdate = 2008-09-03 ]

On June 16 2008. A group of over 3,000 [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/basketball/367296_rally17.html] Seattle Sonics fans gathered at the U.S. Federal Court House in Seattle Washington to protest the relocation efforts of the Professional Basketball Club to relocate the Seattle Sonics NBA Basketball team from the City of Seattle to Oklahoma City. June 16 2008 was the first day of the City of Seattle's lawsuit against the P.B.C. to enforce the remaining 2 years on the Key Arena lease [http://www.nwcn.com/sports/stories/NW_061608SSB_mon_sonics_trial_minute_by_minute_TP.2dbc7f52.html] . This event was covered by local and independent media [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAp2OLQYVfI] [www.youtube.com]

Brian Robinson and Steve Pyeatt founded the group and continue to push Seattle's civic leaders to bring professional basketball back to Seattle [ cite web
url = http://www.saveoursonics.org/
title = Save Our Sonics& Storm
work = Official web site
publisher = SOS
accessdate = 2008-09-03 ]

ee also

*Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City

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