The Seattle SuperSonics were named after an airplane that never existed.
Howard Schultz could have renamed them the Super Lattes, written off their “losses” (chump change to the Starbucks corporation) as advertising cost and saved basketball in Seattle. Bingo! Problem solved.
Robert Van den Akker
Monroe
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