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Thewlis Dish

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Despite the release of e-mails that SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett exchanged last year with partners about moving the team to Oklahoma City, NBA commissioner David Stern says he is convinced Bennett made a good-faith effort to keep the team in Seattle.

Bennett and ownership partners Aubrey McClendon and Tom Ward exchanged e-mails in April 2007 in which they discussed whether there was any way to avoid further "lame duck" seasons in Seattle before the team could be relocated.

Bennett, who had promised to negotiate with Seattle for a full year before deciding whether to move the Sonics, responded: "I am a man possessed! Will do everything we can. Thanks for hanging with me boys."

"I haven't studied them but my sense of it was that Clay, as the managing partner and the driving force of the group, was operating in good faith under the agreement that had been made with [previous owner] Howard Schultz," Stern said on a conference call Monday. "His straight and narrow path may not have been shared by all of his partners in their views, but Clay was the one that was making policy for the partnership."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3346600

Unbelievable, but expected.
 

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Yeah, Stern is being an utter douchebag on the whole Seattle matter.

He's trying to make a statement that anyone who doesn't agree to build a new stadium in their city will get ____ed over.
 

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It's fingers in ears and eyes closed stuff. Unfortunately Cuban will be the only owner to vote against the move if he does.

Just hope the city council makes a stand and upholds the Key Arena lease, even if it just delays the inevitable.
 
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