The answer is that the Thunder are what used to be the Seattle Supersonics, a middling franchise that finally wound up its tenure in Grunge City after the sour relationship between the millionaire players and the billionaire owner made it impossible to function.
The last Seattle owner, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, got so frustrated, he sold the team to a group of investors from Oklahoma City.
But, depending on how things go Friday, it might as well be so. After all, how can you have a team called the Supersonics after all the Boeing plants move somewhere else?
More than 30,000 Boeing workers, who belong to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, in Washington State and Oregon vote Jan. 3 on whether or not they keep their jobs or their company closes its plants in the area and moves on.
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/12/31/boeing-jobs-may-follow-the-supersonics-out-of-washington-state/
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