Reading Clay Bennett's E-Mail

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Links: Ordinary People
Published 4/10/2008 by Lang Whitaker at SLAM Online
... • People in Seattle suddenly have a ton of ammunition that Clay Bennett meant to move the Sonics out of Seattle all along. Henry Abbott breaks it down here. If the Sonics had moved to Oklahoma City without all these internal emails being released, people in Seattle would’ve been pissed, but they wouldn’t have had much recourse. Now everyone — both in Seattle and OKC — knows for certain that Bennett was lying to everyone on both sides all along. Not a good look. ...

Clay Bennett's a Terrible Liar
Published 4/10/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... the city of Seattle and the Washington State Legislature to work out a deal to get a new building for the Sonics in the Emerald City? Oh, that's surprising. Really surprising. The Seattle Times has released emails from the Sonics owner indicating that no, Bennett did not want to find a workable solution in Seattle and yes, Oklahoma City was the destination all along. Jim Brunner's story is rather damning and pretty fantastic. Do read. (Via TrueHoop, of course.) The clearest example of how much of a two-faced liar Bennett within ...

This Week’s Man Crush: Clay Bennett
Published 7/6/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Dan Engel) at Assist by The Mitten
... I must confess that I plagiarized your e-mail to David Stern, but I couldn’t find the words that captured the depth of my feelings. There are so many reasons to admire ...