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Tonight while Rush Limbaugh is busy writing cancer jokes, Northwest sports fans will be sitting in front of a television watching two of the regions most exciting players.

Remember this?

Welcome Deadspin readers. Last week, during the stock market crash, one of the key figures in the Sonics-to-Oklahoma City drama lost nearly $2 billion dollars. Here's how:

Call us 'jaded', but Seattlest has come to expect corrupt politicians and scheming corporate shills to do their dirty work on Friday afternoons. It's just the way they work. Somewhere out there in public relations land, there must exist a playbook extolling the virtues of arson and manslaughter, as long as it's done on the last day of the week.

Like the large-scale divorce it is, Seattle and Oklahoma City have divvied up the personal artifacts and furniture once associated with the Seattle Supersonics. We get to keep the trophies, championship banners and retired jerseys--which will be kept and shown at the MOHAI. Oklahoma City and the Thunder (or whatever the team will be called) has been awarded some CDs, a flat screen TV, a basketball inflater, and a replay monitor. For once in this nasty divorce, it sounds like we actually got the better deal...we'll take small victories.

This old Sonics letterhead was appropriately posted by Seattle Municipal Archives in our Flickr Pool today. We've spent the past few weeks so angry at the Sonics ordeal and court battle, that the loss of the team and it's local history hadn't hit us until we saw this.

Seattle SuperSonics 1967-2008.

Starring Michael Caine as Clay Bennett

It's like we were just saying about Starbucks the other day, only if we were the Washington Post instead of a city blog:

For most Seattleites, what Schultz called "the watering down of the Starbucks experience" is stale news -- akin to reports that the Seattle SuperSonics (which Schultz sold last year) are a losing National Basketball Association team or that Seattle winters are wet.

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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."

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: