Microsoft CEO Attempts to Buy the Supersonics, Update Team to New Version that Everybody Hates Making Everybody Wish They Still Had the Old Version

The Seattle Supersonics might not be doomed to move to Oklahoma City. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is part of a group attempting to purchase the franchise, with the intention of keeping them in the Pacific Northwest. Of course, the team isn’t technically “for sale.” But as any good Microsoft CEO, Ballmer knows everyone has a price.

The report, citing anonymous sources, said Seattle leaders are hoping the offer will convince state legislators to pass the expansion package to keep the Sonics from moving to owner Clay Bennett’s hometown of Oklahoma City.

Ballmer’s group proposes to cover half the cost of the stadium expansion, the report said, and the 50-50 split would beat anything put on the table by the Sonics ownership.

Bennett, however, has said often that the Sonics aren’t for sale. The proposal, which comes in the final days of the Legislature session, may share the fate of similar proposals in recent years that have come up late, the report said.

“They do the same thing every year. They come in at the last minute,” said House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam. “I don’t see it happening.”

So, basically, this isn’t going to happen and the new Word still blows. Great.