This is pretty heartwarming stuff. The NBA asks teams who play against New Orleans to do a little community service while they're there. Teams do, often haphazardly, sending a couple of players along to some pre-selected site. But the Sonics entire staff--coaches, players, security people--showed up to serve food at a New Orleans substance abuse center for 45 minutes, reports the P-I's Gary Washburn. Then, after that, coach P.J. Carlesimo wanted to do more, so......

The Sonics will play in their possible future home town tonight when they face the Oklahoma City/New Orleans Hornets in the brand new Ford Center. Oh by the way, the brand new Ford Center may not be brand new enough for the NBA. Let's say the Sonics come in the next couple of seasons. They spend a year or two bartering over arena plans. Spend a two or three years in construction. Suddenly it's 2013,......

Hurricane Katrina forced the NBA's Hornets to play most of this and last season in Oklahoma City, but they'll play all 41 of their 2007-08 home games in New Orleans.The New Orleans Hornets planned to let a deadline pass Wednesday on the team’s option to play a third season at its temporary home in Oklahoma City. “Obviously we’re extremely grateful for the people in this community, the way they’ve embraced us and have supported us,”......

Sports Illustrated is featuring the Huskies on the cover of their College Basketball preview-- well one of the five regional covers. The west coast edition features John Brockman and…really, wow, Ryan Appleby. Huh. Justin Dentmon must have had class or something. The magazine ranks the Dawgs number fourteen, in their pre-season Sweet Sixteen. They will play six games against SI's top sixteen, including two against Arizona (January 4 and February 3), UCLA (December 31 and......

Apparently the nation's 33rd largest metropolitan area is such an ideal place for basketball that teams are falling all over themselves to move there. SonicsCentral.com reports: According to SonicsCentral sources, coinciding with the Seattle Supersonics petition to the league regarding the sale, New Orleans Hornets ownership, headed by George Shinn, has applied to the league to permanently stay in Oklahoma City. "More details to come," they promise.......

The Sonics gave up on Rick Brunson, their all-time worst free-agent signing. This offseason, they gave Brunson--who had a foot injury--a guaranteed $1 million contract. Brunson's foot injury never healed. He played four games. You do the math. Note, this is the organization that wants you the taxpayer to pitch in for their new arena. Please. And yet we are stupid too! After the Supes traded for Chris Wilcox, we posed this question: "What......

Last night, the Sonics played a mediocre team, the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets. The mediocre team lost their only two point guards to injury. Yet the Sonics still lost. Is there anyone the Sonics can beat? The point guard situation is persistently dismal. "Flip" Murray, a pure scorer, continues as the backup point guard, with predictable results. During a recent radio broadcast, color man Craig Ehlo chastised other Sonics for standing around and watching when......

Thanks to all of the social in-justice in the world residents of Berkeley have many things to talk about. In fact there is nothing they love more then trying to one up each other with tales of misery and woe from around the globe. Then they pay eight dollars for an organic tomato, drive their bumper sticker covered Volvo home, and email Congress about whatever MoveOn.org tells them to. However, because of their local collegiate......

After ending an ugly six-game losing streak with a win over the lowly New Orleans Hornets on Friday, the Sonics posted an impressive 15-point victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday afternoon. Friday's win, on fan appreciation night, clinched the Sonics' first ever Northwest Division Championship. Actually, it was the first ever Northwest Division championship for anyone, since the NBA created the division this year. The post-game celebration was cursory. Rookie center and season-long......