Some city, somewhere, has got to start beating this kind of crap lest the taxpayers continue to end up getting raped.
Earlier that day, Bennett had written an e-mail to McClendon referring to the fallout from McClendon's comments to an Oklahoma business publication that "we didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle, we hoped to come here."
"Yes sir we get killed on this one," Bennett wrote to McClendon. "I don't mind the PR ugliness (pretty used to it), but I am concerned from a legal standpoint that your statement could perhaps undermine our basic premise of 'good faith best efforts.' "
NBA commissioner David Stern fined McClendon $250,000 for his comment. The city is citing it as evidence Sonics owners lied to Seattle when asserting they weren't trying to move the team.
I wish I knew why Stern is almost certainly aware of and just as likely in favor of all the backside tampering. The profit model protection scheme is about the best theory I've seen...
In one from April 2007, Bennett stated: "I am a man possessed! Will do everything we can," in response to co-owner Tom Ward asking if they were in for another "lame duck season" in Seattle.
Comments Section wrote:It is indeed to see the manner in which Seattle covers this issue vs how Oklahoma covers it. In Oklahoma, the headling is The NBA is complaining Seattle is "harassingMorey 2020.
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