Clay Bennett fires back, says lease lawsuit is a ruse to force sale of Sonics

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kcudah kcudah posted 4/18/2008 from seattletimes.nwsource.com [flag]
With the NBA Board of Governors today expected to approve his bid to move the Sonics to Oklahoma City, team owner Clay Bennett's attorneys already are signaling his strategy for the next big battle: arguing to a federal judge that Seattle's KeyArena lease lawsuit is just a ruse to force a team sale. Striking back after a week of bad publicity, Bennett's attorneys filed a federal-court ... [link]

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