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Unlike our beloved baseball All Star Game, we’ve tended to skip the NBA's version in recent years. However, with our hero Brandon Roy, in Sunday's game we can’t wait to watch our fellow ex-Bulldog cram some FANtastic™ action down the East’s face. However, we’ll be in Vancouver--sorry TNT.

Some of the best sports writing anywhere is on FreeDarko, where a group of very smart, very funny people talk hoops in an utterly inimitable way.

In June of 1996, Shawn Kemp had just outplayed Michael Jordan, and even the most pessimistic Sonics fan agreed that the Supes had been a healthy Nate McMillan away from taking the crown.

Other than June 5th, 1977 and June 1st, 1979, June 28, 2007 has got to rank as the best day in Northwest pro basketball history.

--The Sonics will have an NBA all-star after all; Ray Allen's an injury replacement.

Seattlest remembers that back when Gary Payton was about to be a free agent, we saw some ESPN story about how players like to play in Florida because there isn't (or wasn't) state income tax there. The interviewer asked Payton about this, and he said something along the lines of "Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet."

10. Mariners vs Yankees (August 22): The Yankees kept taking the lead and the Mariners kept coming back. In the ninth, with the score tied 5-5, A-Rod came up with a clutch bases loaded strike out. Later that inning Adrian Beltre won the game on a walk off home run.

Brandon Roy, who is as far as we can tell the first Garfield High School Bulldog to play in the NBA, started in last night's hometeam win over the Oklahoma City Sonics.

Not many Seattle sports icons can call themselves champions. Mandatory All-Star participants, yes. Champions, no.

As the NBA's 10th worst team, the Sonics had about a 1/25 chance of getting one of the top three picks, and about a 9/10 chance of getting the 10th pick. They did not pick up an ace "on the river" however (if you have been unemployed in the past year you will know what this means), and so the tenth pick is theirs.

The Mariners experienced baseball's happiest moment last night, a game winning walk-off home run.

Here at our work, some guy's been trying to give away damn good seats to tonight's Sonics game all day, asking $5 below face, then $15 below face, then "any reasonable offer," which inspired co-worker wiseguys to propose trading cement pieces and old socks for the tix.

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.

Ray Allen got in a fight with Orlando's Keyon Dooling during last night's Sonics win. The fight started on the wing, at the three-point arc, but Allen and Dooling ended up wrestling each other on top of two fans sitting courtside.

When Howard Schultz bought the Sonics, he spoke of a five-year plan to win a championship. It started out fine with a year-one trip to the playoffs, then the second and third year--nothing. Last year the team made the leap and finished as a third seed in the West, taking the eventual champion Spurs to six games in the conference semi-finals.

Breaking news late on Wednesday night--after yesterday's news that the Sonics had re-signed Ray Allen to a five-year, $85 million contract, Fox Sports is reporting that Nate McMillan has signed on to coach none other than...the Portland Trailblazers.

Ray Allen's desperation three point try at the end of last night's game looked on target as it arced toward the basket with the final buzzer sounding.

With a surprisingly easy 101-89 win last night over San Antonio, the Sonics tied the Western Conference semifinals at 2-2.

The Spurs' Tony Parker is a good-looking, 6-2 23-year-old with a French accent who will make $1.5 million this year. One would expect him to have an attractive girlfriend, and he does--Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria, who portrays Gabrielle (a.k.a. the hot one, although Seattlest thinks she is too skinny) on that popular ABC show.

In the view of Sonics players, excellent three-point-shooting is the team's best chance to beat heavily-favored San Antonio in their best-of-seven Western Conference Semifinal playoff series.

The Seattle P-I today passes along a rumor that Seattle Prep basketball star and NBA prospect Martell Webster, who has committed to play next year for the University of Washington, signed a contract with an agent. If true, this would disqualify Webster from playing college ball.

Ray Allen tied a team record for points in a playoff game with 45, and the Sonics overcame an early 19-point deficit to beat Sacramento last night.

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.

Are some Sonics adopting the labor tactics of 1930's autoworkers' unions?

As expected, the Huskies won their first-round NCAA tournament game yesterday. They advance to the second round against Pacific. The game is Saturday at 12:20. Seattlest will be watching at Sport, a new restaurant near Seattle Center that is reputed to have an excellent chef.