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Ashely Moorehead holds a Save our Sonics sign during their game against the Portland Trail Blazers at the Key Arena in Seattle on March 24, 2008. Sonics owner Clay Bennett and his Oklahoma City-based ownership have brokered a lucrative preliminary lease agreement to play in Ford Center in Oklahoma City. The SuperSonics beat the Trail Blazers 97-84. (UPI Photo/Jim Bryant)

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