SEATTLE — It's another tease. Another brick on the (thus far) mythical road to bringing the Sonics — or at least a new team with that hallowed name — back to Seattle.
Another sign that, if you're patient enough, it's really going to happen.
Oh, no one in any position of influence dared to utter that thought on Wednesday when the Kraken hosted a news conference to announce that the NBA would stage a preseason game at Climate Pledge Arena on Oct. 3. The contest — which will be the first NBA game to be played in the new building on the site of the old Sonics home that was deemed inadequate by the league, until the Oak View Group gave it a $1.2 billion sprucing — matches two teams with obvious Seattle ties: the Los Angeles Clippers of Steve Ballmer and the Portland Trail Blazers of Jody Allen.
