OT: Sonics Gate: How Seattle Lost Its Basketball Team

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  1. Tunchi

    Tunchi Well-Known Member

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    Damn thats crazy
     
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    You know what they say, if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
     
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    What was he really facing? Damage to his reputation - doubt he cared. A few months in Club Fed - whoop-dee-do. Being a little less rich - that was likely it. He might have fallen from 1 percenter to 2 perecenter or something!
     
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    He was facing a maximum 10 years in prison for each act he would be convicted on. Serious time in my opinion.
     
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  6. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    He needs to be in the three comma club! You're worthless of you aren't.
     
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    could have easily been a hit. Takeover the electronics in a car has been a newer technology.
    McClendon could have cheesed for immunity and implicated others.
     
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  8. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    That's your speculation. I've read 3 articles and none have said that yet. He conspired with other Texas corporate leaders, all of whom had the power to silence him, now that the government was about to force him to sing.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Okay, now you're seeing reality.
     
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    Maybe he was a man possessed
     
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    Sounds like a hit to me. Pretty obvious actually.
     
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    Or, how bout he faked his death?!
     
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    Now he raps with tupac?
     
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    Or until we force billionaires to pay for their own fucking arenas.
     
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    Empowered women keep Seattle Basketball Free! They should have made it a mixed used Basketball Arena/Abortion clinic. Just a total win-win.




     
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    What a fucking joke that whole situation was and still is! Very sad!
     
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    I think they were afraid they would lose votes from all of the May Day protesters who were out in force yesterday
     
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    Seattle is different now. Maybe Bill Gates will turn butch?
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    santeesioux Just keep on scrolling by

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    Check out the responses on the gender breakdown tweet, sjw galore.
     
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