Seattle files lawsuit against SuperSonics’ attempt to move (AP)

KeyArena, home of the NBA basketball team the Seattle SuperSonics, is shown at night in this Jan. 16, 2007 file photo in Seattle. The City of Seattle filed a lawsuit Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 against the team to hold them to the terms of their lease of KeyArena, which runs through 2010, in efforts to keep Sonics owner Clay Bennett from moving the team out of town.

Seattle officials filed a lawsuit Monday to keep the SuperSonics from leaving town, saying the team’s profitability at KeyArena “has less to do with KeyArena than perhaps the Sonics’ ability to defend the high pick-and-roll.” The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court just a few days after new Sonics chairman Clay Bennett issued a demand for arbitration, seeking to buy out the remainder…


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