Why does clay bennett hate seattle

It's to have the team returned. The theory of the suit is that when the team was sold, the Basketball Club of Seattle, our team here, relied on promises made by Clay Bennett and his ownership that they desired to keep the team in Seattle and intended to make a good-faith effort to accomplish that.

He has since sold the Storm to four Seattle women who will keep the team here. E-mails among the Oklahoma City owners, made public last week, paint a different picture of their intentions. In preparation for a June 16 trial in Seattle's lawsuit, which seeks to hold the owners to the remaining two years of the team's KeyArena lease, lawyers for the city obtained several e-mails in which owners expressed an intent to move to Oklahoma City shortly after the sale.

It's his team, he can do what he wants with it and keeping it in Seattle would be unprofitable at this point. Doesn't make him scum -- just a smart business man. Basketball Fan wrote:. On Nov. Rallies were organized in a last-ditch attempt to save their team. SuperSonics legend Gary Payton was vocal in his hope to keep the team in Seattle. It wasn't enough.

On July 2, , Bennett and his ownership group reached a settlement with the City of Seattle allowing the move to Oklahoma City. It was a disappointing day for fans. Former Sonics and current Thunder forward Nick Collison recalls it being "a shock to the system.

Though some in the city may cheer the Thunder's Game 7 loss, it's "emptiness" SuperSonics fans will continue to deal with in the coming years. Earlier this month, Seattle's city council voted against the sale of land for a proposed new arena. I can see all the guys at once. I can see all the angles. I can read the body language. And when Seattle lost the Sonics, when the game was taken from us, Bill Simmons was the one sports writer who got it, the one who truly understood our pain.

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