| After the team agreed to a settlement with the city of Seattle to break the last two years of its KeyArena lease agreement, Sonics chairman Clay Bennett finally achieved his goal of bringing professional basketball to his hometown of Oklahoma City. "We made it," a smiling Bennett said in Oklahoma City during a press conference announcing the team's relocation. Now, general manager Sam Presti has to get down to the nuts and bolts of finding a practice facility and getting his young team ready for the team's inaugural season in its new city. Most of the team's stuff remains in Seattle while Presti works to transition basketball operations to Oklahoma City, with no definitive timetable set for moving vans to show up to the team's practice facility in Seattle, the... |