Milwaukee Bucks mulling over move to Seattle

Jacob Nierenberg • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Milwaukee Bucks mulling over move to Seattle</h1>
                <h2><p>It’s been seven years since the Seattle SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City, but there’s now a glimmer of hope that a new basketball team may call the Emerald City home. Despite Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl reaching an agreement to sell the team for $550 million last year,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/jacob-nierenberg-crosscut-com/">Jacob Nierenberg</a></p> 
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            <p>It’s been seven years since the Seattle SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City, but there’s now a glimmer of hope that a new basketball team may call the Emerald City home. Despite Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl reaching an agreement to sell the team for $550 million last year, both <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/morning_call/2015/07/milwaukeebucks-president-if-arena-deal-not.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">Puget Sound Business Journal</a> and the <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/sonics/2015/07/06/milwaukee-bucks-president-approve-arena-funding-or-team-could-move-to-seattle/?ref=avalancheghost.one#32980101=0">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a> write that the Bucks have yet to receive funding for a new arena. If the stadium is not built with haste, according to Bucks president Peter Feigin, the NBA will buy back the team and relocate it to another city—possibly Las Vegas or Seattle. If the Bucks do come to Seattle, they will most likely adopt the Supersonics' name, logo, and colors.</p>
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It’s been seven years since the Seattle SuperSonics left for Oklahoma City, but there’s now a glimmer of hope that a new basketball team may call the Emerald City home. Despite Milwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl reaching an agreement to sell the team for $550 million last year, both Puget Sound Business Journal and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer write that the Bucks have yet to receive funding for a new arena. If the stadium is not built with haste, according to Bucks president Peter Feigin, the NBA will buy back the team and relocate it to another city—possibly Las Vegas or Seattle. If the Bucks do come to Seattle, they will most likely adopt the Supersonics' name, logo, and colors.

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By Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He has lived in Washington for nearly all of his life, and still proudly identifies with the Pacific Northwest despite his relocation to Stanford U