PORTLAND, Ore. – Tonight may or may not be the last NBA game ever played in Seattle.

But Jason Terry isn't taking any chances.

"I'm going to try to take a piece of the arena with me, just in case – a locker room chair, a sign, something," Terry said.

The Mavericks' visit tonight to Key Arena will be the SuperSonics' last home game of the season. Owner Clay Bennett, unhappy with the city's refusal to pony up a new arena, is trying to move the team to Oklahoma City. The Sonics appear to have one Nike out the door already.

Terry, of course, grew up in Seattle. He started going to Sonics games when he was 2 and still wears a headband in games because his favorite player, Slick Watts, always wore a headband.

Watts later would be Terry's third-grade P.E. teacher.

"I went to maybe 10 or 20 games a year," said Terry. "There's a lot of tradition and history there. People just don't know."

The Sonics have been in Seattle for more than four decades. Portland coach Nate McMillan played for some of the best Sonics teams during the 1980s and '90s. His jersey hangs from the rafters at Key Arena.

"It's still hard to believe that it's looking more and more like that team is leaving," McMillan said. "That team is pretty much gone. It's going to be really strange to not have them there.

"And I don't know where my jersey's going to be. Maybe they'll take it down. [In Oklahoma], they'll say: 'McMillan? Who was that guy?' "

■ The future of hoops: The Nike Hoop Summit was at the Rose Garden on Saturday afternoon. The game pitted some of the top high school seniors against a world select team comprised of teenagers mostly from Europe.

Among the players was Tim Ohlbrecht, a 19-year-old from Germany. Ohlbrecht and Dirk Nowitzki went out to dinner Friday night in Portland. The two worked out together frequently last summer in Germany.

The 6-10 Ohlbrecht had two points and five rebounds in 16 minutes. The U.S. team won, 98-78. The U.S. has a 9-2 record in the annual games. The last time the international team won was in 1998, when Nowitzki led them to victory.

■ Injury update: Josh Howard probably would have been in uniform if Saturday's game had been a playoff game.

"He wouldn't be anywhere near 100 percent, though," Avery Johnson said.

As it was, Howard sat out Saturday's game against the Blazers to rest his sore right knee. The game plan is to play Howard tonight at Seattle, assuming he has no setbacks with the knee.

Jerry Stackhouse also is expected to play after missing eight games with a right groin strain.