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Mono - "Yearning"

SonicsCentral pointed us to this story from the Daily Oklahoman, where Clay Bennett is as explicit as ever about his desire to move the Sonics:

"For now, without a building solution, it's our intent to play in Seattle and apply for relocation immediately after the (Oct. 31) deadline."

It's good that Bennett's finally declared his intentions, NBA-backers can now prepare for the big fight. The Sonics' lease, signed after we taxpayers remodeled the Coliseum for them, runs through 2010. It would seem that, with Bennett having given up on Seattle, the only hope of keeping the Sonics would be to force him to stay in town, exposing him to several years of financial losses unless he unloads the team to a local buyer willing to build a privately-funded stadium here. That, or convincing NBA owners to oppose his application to move. Surely the NBA can't be relishing the possibility of having a marquee player like Greg Oden or Kevin Durant stuck in the nation's 45th-largest TV market (Seattle is 14th).

National NBA basketball correspondent Jason McDonald shares his thoughts on the #8-seed Warriors' defeat of #1-seed Dallas

The only things hotter than Oakland’s NBA team are its freeways [rimshot…crickets].

We guarantee that sometime during this week's crucial series against Oakland, Dave Niehaus will employ the phrase "house of horrors" to describe McAfee Coliseum.

Oh but do we have it in for the dailies today. The lead article in today's Seattle P-I describes the sorry state of our continent's vacated basketball arenas.

Had a bloated, doped-up Elvis not died on his bathroom’s shag carpet, gold pajama bottoms around his ankles, face-down in his own vomit, he would’ve turned 71 this Sunday. Though Seattle is a long way from Graceland, the King rolled through town during each of his three distinct career phases: ‘50s rock ‘n’ roller, ’60 movie star, and ‘70s touring machine.

Both Red Mill locations are closing early on Sunday, and that can mean only one thing -- the Rolling Stones are back in town.