Kevin Pelton, SUPERSONICS.COM | April 20, 2006
With the conclusion of the 2005-06 season, the Seattle SuperSonics will scatter across the country and even, in the case of rookie center 
Johan Petro, the world. Here's a look at what several players will be up to.
GUARD 
RAY ALLEN:
"I want to enjoy Seattle," says Allen. "I want to travel around the state of Washington. I'll play a little golf - a lot of golf."
Allen, who makes Seattle his home, has a basketball court in his backyard and says that and his body will let him know when it's time to begin preparing for next season.
FORWARD 
NICK COLLISON:
Collison mostly plans to stay around the Seattle area, but says, "We've got to take the baby on tour to see the whole family." His girlfriend gave birth to daughter Emma Sloan during February. Time off will be good for Collison's left foot after he partially tore his plantar fascia in March. After that, he'll resume working out.
"Try to get stronger, kind of like I always too," he says. "I usually lift a lot and work on all my game. Every aspect. There's not really one thing. I'd like to be more consistent shooting the ball and add some stuff in the post, things like that."
FORWARD 
RASHARD LEWIS:
As usual, Lewis will split the off-season between Seattle and his native Houston. "I'll be back and forth between here and Houston, spend a lot of time here," he says. "Just enjoy the weather, the sunshine, go back home and see family."
Starting in the middle of July, Lewis will play in the month-long Houston Pro City Summer League, which annually features a host of NBA players, including 
Damon Jones, Mike James and Cuttino Mobley. Lewis led his "Team Black" squad to victory last year, winning MVP honors.
CENTER JOHAN PETRO:
After taking a season off from the French National Team, Petro will join his countrymen this summer and is expected to play in the
2006 FIBA World Championship.
"It was my first year in Seattle. I didn't want to mess anything up, so I wanted to come here first and look what's happened here," Petro explained earlier this season. "I said, 'If I do well here, they'll want me to come next summer.'
"We've got a lot of good players. We've got (Boris) Diaw, we've got (Tony) Parker, we've got (Mickael) Pietrus and a lot of great players in Europe. We've got a good group. We can do some things."
GUARD 
LUKE RIDNOUR:
Ridnour has big plans for this summer: "Hang out on the boat," he says. (Collison and Ridnour have been known to go boating together on Lake Washington.) Of course, the gym rat will spend time working on his game and hopes to hone his jumpshot to continue his offensive development. The lithe Ridnour also wants to bulk up a little.
"I'm just going to see what I can do with my body type," he says. "I'm going to try to put on 5-10 pounds. I just want to see if I can do it. I want to see if it will help physicality-wise."
At the end of July, Ridnour will join 22 other players in Las Vegas for a USA Basketball Men's Senior National Team training session, hoping to be picked for the U.S.'s World Championship roster.
GUARD 
EARL WATSON:
Petro and Ridnour aren't the only Sonics players playing international ball this summer. They'll be joined by Watson, who was talked into playing for the Mexican National Team by former Denver teammate
Eduardo Najera.
"My [maternal] grandparents are from Mexico, so I qualify," explains Watson.
While Mexico is not qualified for the World Championship, it will play in the Central American and Caribbean Games in July in Cartagena, Colombia.
"I'm looking forward to it because we'll be in Mexico in a while, then we go from there to South America," says Watson. "It will be a good experience for seeing different cultures and different countries."
