Let’s remember when Howard Schultz sold the Sonics to Clay Bennett, on this day in 2006 (July 18)

Squatch, pictured here in 2005, was the mascot of the Seattle SuperSonics NBA basketball team from 1993–2008. The original uploader was Funktasm at English Wikipedia.

The Associated Press called what happened thirteen years ago today, “the day that changed sports in Seattle.” It was terrible.

The AP’s Tim Booth says:

People in Seattle remember July 18, 2006, with bitterness because it was the day the city’s first professional sports franchise was sold by Howard Schultz and the Basketball Club of Seattle to Clay Bennett and the Professional Basketball Club LLC based in Oklahoma City. It was the beginning of a process that eventually led two years later to the SuperSonics relocating to Oklahoma City after 41 years in Seattle.

Fuck Howard Schultz forever. Fuck David Stern forever. Fuck Clay Bennett forever. Fuck Aubrey McClendon forever (and into the afterlife).

Read the whole thing:

July 18, 2006: The day that changed sports in Seattle