DoeZ it ever end....?

Yesterday, the "new" owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, Clay Bennett, again started low profile discussions with - this time - the City of Seattle regarding the future of the NBA team.

When will this end? The Sonics have a home, Key Arena, and in the spring they were dead set on leaving it in favor for the city of Renton - providing the taxpayers would have funded a new arena to the tune of some $300M (or, in other speak, $300,000,000).
A smart legislature decided to not even bring up that idea of "financing" for discussion, leading Bennett to likely move the team out of state.

But, is Bennett now getting cold feet, or is he just trying to gracefully get out of the KeyArean lease (runs through 2010).
Quoted from today's Seattle Times:
"KeyArena can be a fine building for certain events" but would not be profitable for the NBA even with a $200 million expansion, he said.
If the public wants the Sonics and Storm to stay here, "we need a new building" — whether at Seattle Center or elsewhere."

The most recent renovation of KeyArena - taxpayer funded and requested by the SuperSonics - is not paid off. The team does not even fill the arena today. Who on earth thinks the team would fill an even bigger arena? People do not go to see the Sonics due to the building, they go for the team, for the sports, for the entertainment. If the team is not "up to par" (=winning), people will not come.

Today's KeyArena is a fine "anchor" facility in the middle of the Seattle Center. It will remain a fine anchor facility and a great asset to the Seattle Center even tomorrow - with or without the Sonics and its greedy out-of-stater - and certainly w/o any injection of a few hundred million dollars. That money better be spent on our transportion system, most notably a tunnel to lead traffic away from our wonderful waterfront!