Originally published Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
PrintGary Payton trying to get NBA team in Seattle
Former Sonics guard wants professional basketball team in Seattle by 2011
Seattle Times staff reporter
Former Sonics guard Gary Payton was at Qwest Field to raise the 12th Man flag before Sunday's kickoff, then later told reporters he is trying to get a group together to bring an NBA franchise back to Seattle by 2011.
Payton said he is enlisting the help of another former Sonic, James Donaldson, and other current NBA players to join the group. He has yet to speak to NBA commissioner David Stern, but also plans to have his agent, Aaron Goodwin, speak with people in the business world to further the cause.
"I'm always looking forward to another team coming here," Payton said.
Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
Print
Digg
Newsvine
NFL, union resume labor talks at mediator's office
UPDATE - 08:52 AM
Hundreds attend funeral for fallen Mich. player
UPDATE - 09:40 AM
Norway's Tarjei Boe wins men's biathlon at worlds
Crying is OK, but admitting it is apparently not
NEW - 08:46 AM
Tripoli ruled unsafe for international soccer
13 for '13: Megan Jasper, VP of Sub Pop Records
Megan Jasper: Kurt Cobain's address
How the Skagit bridge collapsed
Ballard's Pasteria Lucchese: Pappardelle
Ballard's Pasteria Lucchese: Tortellone
Stocking lakes with larger trout
Video of suspects in Boston bombings
Bread Town: Columbia City Bakery
Thrift-shop Showdown winners photo shoot
Open Houses
|
Find all open houses.
|
The engineers who create gallon-squeezing cars like the Toyota Prius use every available method to comply with the ever-tightening fuel-economy standa...
Post a comment
- Fasting woman to end attempt to ‘live on light’
- Reporter who broke story on Gen. McChrystal dies in crash
- ‘I don’t want to be only person cured of HIV’
- 2 charged with stealing 4.3 miles of copper wire from Sound Transit
- Man charged with tossing wife off cruise ship
- Temporary I-5 bridge opens to traffic
- Most Americans hate their jobs or have 'checked out,' Gallup says
- Many questions, few answers in death of Bellevue massage therapist
- O’Bannon case could change NCAA landscape
- U.S. men beat Honduras in World Cup qualifying match
- Game thread: time for Mariners to surprise people
522 - Why the Mariners are taking so long with Dustin Ackley 199
- Most hate their jobs or have ‘checked out,’ Gallup says 138
- Mariners survive game of bullpen roulette 109
- Seattle jobless rate drops below 5% 79
- Guest: Boeing’s exodus from Washington state 60
- Less than month after collapse, temporary I-5 bridge is finished 54
- Local governments spend big to lobby Legislature 54
- DOJ urged to avoid pot showdown with state 45
- Parents' ruse snares older Federal Way man wooing daughter 44
- Most Americans hate their jobs or have 'checked out,' Gallup says
- Wheat scare leaves farmers in limbo
- ‘I don’t want to be only person cured of HIV’
- It’s curtains for Seattle’s Egyptian Theatre
- Fasting woman to end attempt to ‘live on light’
- Temporary I-5 bridge opens to traffic
- One tough old bird rules the parking lot
- Report: Too many teachers, too little quality
- 2 charged with stealing 4.3 miles of copper wire from Sound Transit
- Foodie secrets of Florida’s ‘Redneck Riviera’ are worth the quest
