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The Seattle SuperSonics (commonly shortened to Sonics) were an American professional basketball team based in Seattle.The SuperSonics competed in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Division (1967–1970), and later as a member of the Western Conference's Pacific (1970–2004) and Northwest (2004–2008) divisions.
The Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City was a successful effort by the owners of the Seattle ... that the group bought the team with intentions to move to ...
Bennett is the chairman of the Oklahoma City-based Professional Basketball Club LLC (PBC), which owns the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder.Formerly known as the Seattle SuperSonics, the team was purchased from Howard Schultz in 2006 for approximately $350 million with Bennett promising a good-faith effort to keep the team in Seattle, provided there would be a public commitment to a new arena.
The Professional Basketball Club on January 8, 2008, sold the Storm to an ownership group consisting of four Seattle businesswomen. [6] On July 31, 2008, the Tulsa 66ers , now Oklahoma City Blue , announced that Professional Basketball Club had purchased the team, marking the third NBA Development League team to be owned by an NBA team ( Los ...
In June 2012, Ballmer was an investor in Chris R. Hansen's proposal to build a new arena in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle and bring the SuperSonics back to Seattle. [101] On January 9, 2013, Ballmer and Hansen led a group of investors in an attempt to purchase the Sacramento Kings from the Maloof family and relocate them to Seattle for an ...
Swift, who was drafted straight out of high school to the Seattle SuperSonics in 2004, bought the home in 2006, according to the Associated Press. But it fell into foreclosure last July. A new ...
Barry Allan Ackerley (April 15, 1934 – March 21, 2011) [1] was an American businessman. He was the former chairman and CEO of the Ackerley Group media company. He was also the owner of the Seattle SuperSonics basketball franchise from 1983 to 2001 and the Seattle Storm basketball franchise from 2000 to 2001.
Former Seattle SuperSonics star Robert Swift finally moved out of his foreclosed suburban Seattle home this week, but the former basketball star apparently left it in shambles. TV station KOMO in ...