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Christmas had passed, and the year 2007 was drawing to a close.
The SuperSonics finished the year with a three-game winning streak.
On the first day of 2008, Clay Bennett, a year and a half after forming a consortium to acquire the SuperSonics, released his first positive signal that the "SuperSonics might stay in Seattle".
Bennett announced that he would remodel the existing training facility and office building of the SuperSonics this summer, and that he would deeply involve himself in the team's operations over the next few years.
This seemed to be a common future plan, but for Bennett, it was anything but routine.
Since the moment he bought the SuperSonics, he had been preparing for relocation; thus, every action he took was finalizing things before leaving, aimed at distancing the team from its fans.
Now, he was planning to spend money to renovate the training facility?