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Westbrook Sprains Ankle, But Expected To Play
Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Stoudemire Dislocates Left Pinky In Preseason Win
Phoenix Suns, Oklahoma City Thunder Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Seattle Mayor: 'Door Is Open' For NBA To ReturnGreg Nickels, the Mayor of Seattle, says that while he has not spoken to anyone from the NBA, he believes that the door is wide open for an NBA return to Seattle. The report, published by the Associated Press, states that the plan surrounds a remodeled Key Arena. Clay Bennett relocated the Sonics after claiming that the arena was obsolete. "We'll be going to the Legislature in their next session" beginning in January, Nickels said Monday at a ceremony inside KeyArena to announce Seattle University will be using it when the school returns to Division I basketball this season for the first time since 1980. Nickels said Seattle will ask for state authorization to divert 1 percent of the existing hotels tax in Seattle from the convention and visitors bureau to the city. He said the convention center no longer needs that revenue, and the city should get it. "Those funds [would be] available for an NBA franchise," he said. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Thunder Oct 2008 Archive
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Thunder rookie Russell Westbrook suffered a sprained ankle on Tuesday morning but is still expected to play in his team's season opener, according to a report in The Oklahoman.
Amare Stoudemire scored 17 points before leaving the Suns' preseason win against the undermanned Oklahoma City Thunder in the third quarter with a dislocated left pinky, the Associated Press is reporting.