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The former Seattle Sonics will be called, "Thunder" when they move to Oklahoma City. The Sonics were bought by Clay Bennett and other Oklahoma businessmen on July 2006. A week ago, the Seattle City Council terminated the KeyArena lease with the Sonics two seasons early, allowing the team to move to Oklahoma City in exchange for a $45 million payment to Seattle. Terminating the lease was a condition of a settlement agreement between the Sonics and Seattle, which had filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the team from leaving before the lease expired. More than 16,000 people signed up for a season-ticket request list for the Oklahoma City team in a 16 day span.

By: Alpha Diallo

source: Seattletimes