This Sonics move can really eat at an NBA writer, too.
“As a longtime NBA traveler, I’d much rather see the SuperSonics in Seattle,” wrote Sam Smith of The Sporting News. “It’s a beautiful city with phenomenal restaurants and culture and a quirky populace that makes you wonder at times if the country tipped in the late 1960s and the hippie movement landed there and stayed. It’s a place unlike any in the U.S.
“Among the best last meals has to be the Copper River salmon available in the late spring.
“It hardly compares with my favorite IHOP in Oklahoma City.”