http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3446394
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City lawyer says Sonics' obligation rooted in KeyArena renovation
Associated Press
Updated: June 16, 2008, 12:23 PM ET
SEATTLE -- A deal is a deal, and the Sonics should stay.
That was the message from city of Seattle lawyers as a federal trial began Monday to determine whether the NBA franchise will be forced to stay at KeyArena until its lease expires in 2010.
Sonics owner Clay Bennett has gained the league's approval to move the team to his hometown of Oklahoma City.
But in his opening statement Monday, Seattle lawyer Paul Lawrence said the city only agreed to renovate the old Seattle Coliseum -- now KeyArena -- at a cost of more than $80 million in the mid-1990s because the team agreed to stay until 2010.
He told the judge the city has every right to hold the Sonics to that bargain.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
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