Starbucks team lost opportunity

Published 3:55 pm Thursday, June 21, 2012

Regarding the article, “Hansen: NBA’s return to Seattle requires patience”: Return of the NBA? Ha! It will take at least five years to get a new stadium built with all the caterwauling and impact statements and lawsuits. Then we will get an expansion team, or will steal a losing small market team from some other city, and will wait 20 years for them to be competitive. Real nice.

Howard Schultz could have bought the team himself for his global “latte” corporation and renamed the team the Super Cappuccinos and fixed up Key Arena and called it Caffeine Stadium and written the chump change “losses” off as advertising costs. Presto! Problem solved.

Robert Van den Akker

Monroe