Good news Sonics fans: well, maybe. Howard Schultz, the old Sonics owner and current CEO of Starbucks, who sold the team to Oklahoma businessmen, including Clay Bennett, will vie to get the "Supes" back to stay.  

According to Schultz (and basically anyone you ask) Bennett and his cronies breached the terms of the agreement of the original sale.

Schultz will not seek monetary damages, but wants the team back, according to his attorney, Richard Yarmuth.

Yarmuth said, according to The Seattle Times. "The theory of the suit is that when the team was sold, the Basketball Club of Seattle, our team here, relied on promises made by Clay Bennett and his ownership that they desired to keep the team in Seattle and intended to make a good-faith effort to accomplish that."  

The lawsuit, expected to be filed in the next two weeks, comes after the city obtained and made public e-mails among members of the current Sonics ownership group, in which they are seen privately discussing a move to Oklahoma City at the same time they were publicly pledging to continue "good-faith" efforts to remain in Seattle.  

This comes as semi-exciting news for me, as I assume it does for so many Sonics fans as well. I could not be happier to hear that the people who lied (i.e. the current owners) may get what they deserve for lying. I think it is very unethical and distasteful that Bennett and the other owners had a hidden agenda and completely went against the terms of the deal. 

But before I get too excited, or get anybody's hopes up, I am still being patient and waiting for the final verdict. Nothing has happened yet.  The NBA's owners are expected to vote on the proposed Sonics move Friday. The league's relocation committee has already approved the move. 



Dan Olson writes for KSTW-TV in Seattle. All opinions expressed in this column are his.