ARTICLE FROM seattletimes.com (Full story click here)

Today was a very happy day for those of us here in Seattle who miss out departed Seattle Sonics who left town in 2008 for the dust town called Oklahoma City. Of course the team is named the Thunder and yes they made it to the NBA finals this past season.

The Seattle City Council announced a agreement with billionaire Chris Hansen for the building of a brand new state of art arena to be built in the SoDo area here in Seattle.

Man….as a HUGE NBA fan and a Sonic fan since childhood it is a great day. And when the final vote of the council happens along with the King County Council vote it will be another great day!! (pic from Seattle Times)

That means a NBA team is coming back to our city. We Sonics fans know they should not have ever left. But they did and that is water under the bridge. We can just count the days when we are awarded another team here in Seattle. Will it be the Kings or Memphis? I don’t know. All I know is I want the NBA back in Seattle!!

I want to give a big shout to Chris Hansen for putting up MILLIONS to buy property in the SoDo area to build our new arena. This cat is a true blue Sonic fan who hit it rich and said he wants to help bring the Sonics back to Seattle. What a great dude!!!  Also a big shout out to Brian Robinson and also Jason Reid and Adam Brown of Sonicgate for the tremendous work to help get this arena built.

I hope the man above will keep me here so I can see “The Glove” Gary Payton and “The Reign Man” Shawn Kemp get their jerseys retired at the new arena and we can thank them for all the thrills they gave me and millions of Sonic fans. Plus I want to hear Kevin Calabro giving his magic carpet call with maybe Marques Johnson again on radio.

But the main man in all of this is Chris Hansen. Pure and simple. We will keep you informed with all the arena news right here on S.I.C!

Gordon Curvey