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Seattle Basketball Fans Sue NBA's SuperSonics
Sometimes fans will fight back.
Two Seattle SuperSonics season-ticket holders today plan to file a lawsuit accusing the National Basketball Association team and its owners, of "defrauding ticket buyers who believed assurances that they intended to keep the teams in Seattle," according to the Seattle Times.
The suit was arranged by Save Our Sonics and Storm, the fan group trying to prevent team owners from relocating the franchises to Oklahoma City. The Storm are Seattle's WNBA franchise.
It seeks class-action status on behalf of everyone who purchased season tickets between July 2006, when Clay Bennett led a group of Oklahoma City businessmen in purchasing the team, and Sept. 21, when Bennett filed a demand for arbitration to escape the final two years of the team's KeyArena lease. The Sonics were formerly owned by Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz.
"I feel betrayed by ownership," said Carolyn Bechtel, 58, of Kirkland, in a written statement. She described herself as a longtime Sonics fan who has followed the team since its inception in 1967.
Bennett has insisted his intention always has been to keep the Sonics and Storm in the region, but that the teams will move if they don't get a new arena.
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