Wally Walker
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"Walter Frederick "Wally" Walker" is an American former professional basketball player. Walker is best known for his National Basketball Association career - both as a player and as a front office executive - for the Seattle SuperSonics.

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If the city can't make up its mind whether they want us here past 2010, then we have to look at all our options.

The Sonics & Storm family, including our players, coaches, staff and owners, recognizes the importance of aiding the massive relief effort, ... We welcome the community in joining us to support this important cause, both now and into the future.

If we had won 40 or 42 games (last season) instead of 52, it would have been an entirely different process.

Over the past 11-plus seasons, the Sonics have the fifth-best winning record in the NBA including four division titles. Bob Weiss has been a significant contributor to that success. His loyalty and insights have been extremely valuable to this organization. We thank him for all of his efforts and look forward to an ongoing relationship with him.

Anne has demonstrated to our fans and to the whole WNBA that she is one of the top coaches in the history of the league, ... We are thrilled that she will be with the Storm for years to come.

Our respect and affection for Nate will not waver, no matter how paradoxical that he is moving to our Northwest rival.

Our current situation is not competitive.

Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization.

Nineteen distinguished years is all you could hope for from Nate as a player and a coach. He made a decision and we respect that, and now we're going to move ahead with our franchise.