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Did NBA officials suspect that Bennett violated "good faith" promise?
In an e-mail last August, Sonics owner Clay Bennett told fellow owner Aubrey McClendon that NBA executive Joel Litvin was "looking into certain documents we signed at closing that may have been breached." The e-mail was among several newly disclosed by lawyers for Seattle today in a New York federal court filing seeking to depose NBA Commissioner David Stern and force the league to turn over ...
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Cut and Dried
SonicsCentral.com - Massive Monkeys RepresentingI am sorry but maybe I am getting too soft in recent comments. This just does not jive. If you have an obligation to look into options for a period of 12 month(by the way this obligation does not limit you to publicly financed ones) and you on record, in writing say “the decision to leave Seattle WAS NOT MADE IN HASTE” to one of the cheif executives of your league then you are screwed. There is a time period that is well defined. Your decision to leave was either made before the conclusion of that time period or it wasn’t. This is cut ...

More Emails Haunt the Sonics Owners
FanHouse — ... last summer saying they always intended to move the team to Oklahoma City, Bennett warned the group that he was worried about the legal ramifications, since the team was contractually obligated to make a "good faith effort" to stay in Seattle. From ...

Clay Bennett: A Bully with an Inferiority Complex
Enjoy the Enjoyment — ... From emails divulged by the Times' Jim Brunner today, Clay Bennett reveals that he has those classic bully traits. He displays both of them in just 16 words. ...

MId-Plains Temper Tantrum…..Or Is It an Act of Desperation?
Real Sports Bloggers — ... partners to resolve (in English, that resolve translates into "pay for out of their own pockets"). So, the city of OKC would have to file suit against PBC LLC for specific performance of the lease (oooh, deja vu all over again…..they’ll have to do what the city of Seattle did…..bet that will put their knickers in a bit of a twist, no?). And, after Mr. Bennett has helped to drag the NBA’s "good image" through the mud during the 2008-2009 league championship series, and since they apparently doubted his good faith motives early on as well, maybe they will file suit against him, ...

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