http://sportsbusinessdigest.com/giving-them-the-business-12/ Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:49:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://sportsbusinessdigest.com/giving-them-the-business-12/comment-page-1/#comment-859 sportsattitude Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:48:17 +0000 http://sportsbusinessdigest.com/?p=338#comment-859 The Sonics situation is fascinating indeed in that Howard Schultz, the Starbucks guru who feels he was defrauded by the new ownership's flat-out lie about trying to keep the team in Seattle first and foremost, is already in a "flagrant foul" mood to begin with since his java biz is "grinding" to a halt. He's been busy trying to reshape Starbucks' value and restore its worth in our shrinking economy, and now he looks like a complete idiot for "releasing" the team thinking for one second new ownership - and David Stern for that matter - had any intention of doing anything other than pulling up the U-Hauls and taking the Sonics to Oklahoma City. This is gonna be fun watching the NBA squirm its way out of its blatant co-conspiracy to move the team without even trying to keep it in Seattle. The Sonics situation is fascinating indeed in that Howard Schultz, the Starbucks guru who feels he was defrauded by the new ownership’s flat-out lie about trying to keep the team in Seattle first and foremost, is already in a “flagrant foul” mood to begin with since his java biz is “grinding” to a halt. He’s been busy trying to reshape Starbucks’ value and restore its worth in our shrinking economy, and now he looks like a complete idiot for “releasing” the team thinking for one second new ownership – and David Stern for that matter – had any intention of doing anything other than pulling up the U-Hauls and taking the Sonics to Oklahoma City. This is gonna be fun watching the NBA squirm its way out of its blatant co-conspiracy to move the team without even trying to keep it in Seattle.

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