Is the long wait nearly over? SuperSonics fever gets a boost
After 18 years without an NBA team, Seattle-area basketball fans see some hope on the horizon. The National Basketball Association Board of Governors voted Wednesday to open up talks with potential owners for two expansion teams, in Las Vegas and Seattle.
Seattle fans have lurched from despair to hope and back since the SuperSonics were purchased and moved to Oklahoma in 2008. But ESPN reports this is a concrete step toward a full NBA return.
KUOW's Kim Malcolm reached out to Seattle Now producer Vaughan Jones for an update. We also spoke to Zaraya Skea, about her brother Kris “Sonics Guy” Brannon, perhaps the team's ultimate fan, who died five years ago.
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Kim Malcolm
Afternoon News Host
Kim is the local news host of KUOW's All Things Considered, airing from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays. Kim covers breaking and developing daily news, both local and regional, as part of NPR's afternoon drive time programming.
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Vaughan Jones
Producer, Seattle Now
Vaughan is a podcast producer for KUOW's daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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John O'Brien
Senior Producer, All Things Considered
John O’Brien is KUOW's All Things Considered Senior Producer. He spends his days setting up interviews with newsmakers on subjects from politics and public health to arts and culture. John learned to make radio starting in 2006 as an intern on KUOW’s The Conversation with Ross Reynolds.
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