Shocking Newsflash: Clay Bennett Is A Liar - Deadspin Comments

Shocking Newsflash: Clay Bennett Is A Liar

skeleton69 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:56:59 EDT

Maybe people already know this, but back in August, minority owner Aubrey McClendon told the Journal Record of Oklahoma City that 'We didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle. We hoped to come here.' Amazingly that innocent quote to a journalist got back to him.

[seattlepi.nwsource.com]

There he is, dude on the left, looking like Dustin Hoffman. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Or maybe Meet the F*ckers.

skeleton69

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PancakeBreakfast — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:45:58 EDT

Too bad there isn't enough time in the season where the Sonics go on a winning streak and PJ slowly reveals Bennett's honeybaked ham on the cardboard cutout ala "Major League." I don't see the city taking a settlement from these bastards. Get ready for two even more pathetic seasons from the Seattle Walking Dead, coming to play your team in an NBA arena near you!

PancakeBreakfast

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FoxHoundADAM — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:23:18 EDT

@spinachdip: Obviously you don't know how much I think NBA basketball sucks.

FoxHoundADAM

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IchiroSuzukiSamurai — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:26:21 EDT

Oddly, I can still fit into the tux I wore at the opening of KeyArena. Seems like just yesterday.

IchiroSuzukiSamurai

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Rainbow Bright — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:44:34 EDT

@shawnkemp40: QFT.

Rainbow Bright

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josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:09:02 EDT

@shawnkemp40: & may Kelvin Sampson coach them.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

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SagerBombs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:00:21 EDT

Clay Bennett has a downs syndrome mouth.

SagerBombs

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spinachdip — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:42:35 EDT

@FoxHoundADAM: As someone who has a penis, I would love to hang out with a supermodel. Although I really wish it wasn't a Victoria's Secret model.

Marco Jaric can keep that non-putting-out Adriana Lima.

Seriously, OKC is the 45th-ranked DMA (Seattle is #14 btw). Can't you just appreciate that some rich asshole is fucked in the head enough to put a team there? And the NOOCH love doesn't mean shit - it was a novelty and there was the Katrina sympathy angle.

spinachdip

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ReggieDunlop — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:35:40 EDT

Bennett: I am a man possessed with huge horse cock! Will do everything we can. Thanks for hanging with my boys, the interspecies orgy is getting started!
/fixed

ReggieDunlop

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Thundercracker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:26:46 EDT

Ok so its an issue when players lie to the commish, but not the owner? Just wanted to get that clear so I save myself the bloodbath inducing rage in the future when this happens.

Thundercracker

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J.L. White — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:25:06 EDT

@Dave J.: Trust me, the hatred I have for Howard Schultz is different and unique than the kind I hold for Bennett and Stern. Let's just say that Howie should expect a few gallons of piping-hot Colombia Nariño Supremo-blend java to be forcibly poured into his pee-hole.

The searing pain should be just as bold as the flavor!

J.L. White

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Dave J. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:09:15 EDT

@J.L. White: You should throw some hate Howard Schultz's way as well, for selling the team to out-of-staters he KNEW were going to leave as soon as possible. Plus, his coffee fucking sucks.

God, can you imagine anything worse than moving from Seattle to Oklahoma City? Go from one of the best cities in the country to, uh, Oklahoma City? Yeesh.

Dave J.

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AppFan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:44:24 EDT

The way to move a franchise is not to sneak out in the middle of the night.

I would humbly suggest that be called the Shinn Rule. Sorry bastard.

AppFan

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shawnkemp40 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:42:44 EDT

Fuck Clay Bennett and Fuck Howard Schultz. May you both have a slow painful aids riddled ending.

I hope you enjoy your fucking draft picks Oklahomo.

shawnkemp40

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Johnny LaRue — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:38:43 EDT

Bill Belichick lost all his emails in a tsunami. He told me.

--r. gooddell

Johnny LaRue

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J.L. White — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:37:23 EDT

Clay Bennett makes Art Moddell look like Mother FUCKING Teresa. In case David Stern and his shit-eating grin are concerned, the NBA is fucking dead to me, and that includes any phony-ass Replacement Sonics he brings to Seattle later on. Both of them can suck a big, fat pile of syphilis-infected cocks!

J.L. White

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MyronCopacetic — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:31:40 EDT

I'll be quirky.

MyronCopacetic

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obeymydog — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:28:50 EDT

@MattinglysSideburns: Joel Duffman at the The Newsly Times said the whole thing is just a smear campaign. oh yeah!

obeymydog

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kevinarnoldkilleddjtanner — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:25:11 EDT

@EDogli +1 for the Oran Juice Jones reference. You without me is like corn flake without the milk!

kevinarnoldkilleddjtanner

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5280 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:23:12 EDT

@MattinglysSideburns: You know me, Ill be quirky

5280

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ghostsoftheSCupcountry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:22:49 EDT

@Little Lebowski Urban Achiever: That's alright. Soon Seattle will get the Hornets and the OK Sonics will move to the Big Easy. Payback etc.

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

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LostinTheOffice — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:21:58 EDT

So less Art Modell/Colts more Rachel Phelps/Indians

LostinTheOffice

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Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:21:08 EDT

@EDogII: SuperSonic-y Oklahomans > Jazzy Utahites

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

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Little Lebowski Urban Achiever — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:20:33 EDT

@FoxHoundADAM: I am with you. As an Oklahoma resident I would love the idea of having an NBA team, I loved the two years with the Hornets. The way that the city is funding the arena is wrong and that is what bothers me.

Little Lebowski Urban Achiever

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dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:48 EDT

To slowly demoralize and decimate the fanbase, to the point that people can't wait for you to leave.

I think this has been in the Jets' operating agreement since 1970.

dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac

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VTBen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:17 EDT

Clay Bennett: Talk to me! I am a man possessed! I'm 40!

VTBen

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EDogII — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:19:01 EDT

Oklahoma City SuperSonics? Nah.

EDogII

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ghostsoftheSCupcountry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:17:04 EDT

@Im a people person. Who drinks.: Were they holding hands?

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

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Im a people person. Who drinks. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:13:46 EDT

@EDogII: So you're saying you saw Clay Bennett and OKC walking in the rain?

Im a people person. Who drinks.

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Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:40 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: @DennyCrane: @ghostsoftheSCupcountry:
Chris Berman, still.

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

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ghostsoftheSCupcountry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:10:29 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: Joe Morgan, still an idiot.

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

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Im Hafner the man I used to be back when I was using PEDs — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:09:47 EDT

@Suss--: @Suss--: ouch and ouch. Well played.

Im Hafner the man I used to be back when I was using PEDs

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DennyCrane — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:08:04 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: This just in: General Francisco Franco is still dead.

DennyCrane

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Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:07:33 EDT

@twoeightnine: 13 dollars?

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

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twoeightnine — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:06:26 EDT

How much money do you think they'd lose if they sold no tickets next year?

twoeightnine

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Matt Sussman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:06:10 EDT

"Owners have learned their lesson from Art Modell. The way to move a franchise is not to sneak out in the middle of the night"

Because then the deprived city will never get back their old te...

Matt Sussman

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EDogII — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:06:01 EDT

Did you miss me? I missed you too...I missed you so much I followed you today. Yeah, that's right...now close yo mouth, cuz you're cold busted!!

EDogII

Shocking Newsflash: Clay Bennett Is A Liar

Matt Sussman — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:05:16 EDT

"Owners have learned their lesson from Art Modell. The way to move a franchise is not to sneak out in the middle of the night"

Because then you'll never win a championsh...

Matt Sussman

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Dany Heatley Speedwagon — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:04:49 EDT

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Also this just in, the Falkland Islands have been invaded.

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

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GreatOdensRaven — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:04:32 EDT

@David Hume: I think you meant Microsonicbucks.

GreatOdensRaven

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The Teufel Shuffle — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:04:23 EDT

Just give them the goddman Knicks. Nobody in NY wants them anymore.

The Teufel Shuffle

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Weed Against Speed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:03:46 EDT

It looks like Jim Varney is alive and well and pretty pissed off about the Sonics moving.

Weed Against Speed

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Gourmet Spud — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:03:36 EDT

@Doug Llewelyn, Court Reporter:

As do I.

- Community Theatre Attendee

Gourmet Spud

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Michael Bertin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:03:32 EDT

Why my main sports allegiances remain with college. I'm pretty sure my alma mater is not up and leaving its current digs.

Michael Bertin

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Doyle McPoyle — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:03:16 EDT

@7-8 Deville: Bennett tried, but the Nassau Coliseum just couldn't handle an NBA franchise.

Doyle McPoyle

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ghostsoftheSCupcountry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:03:10 EDT

I vote the Sonics be forced to wear Baltimore Colts and Charlotte Hornets jerseys at home and Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers jerseys on the road for their first season in OK City. Ya know, to remind folks what ass-eaters Bennett and Ward are.

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

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Bring Me The Head of Karim Garcia — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:02:29 EDT

Let's look on the bright side: at least the Sonics won't be pretentious and/or Asian anymore.

Bring Me The Head of Karim Garcia

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Doyle McPoyle — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:01:56 EDT

@7-8 Deville: The Long Island Browns?

Doyle McPoyle

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Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:42 EDT

Jim Ballsillie admires Bennett's desire

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

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7-8 Deville — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:35 EDT

Owners have learned their lesson from Art Modell.

Especially the part about moving your franchise to the STD capital of the world.

7-8 Deville

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Doug Llewelyn, Court Reporter — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:00:22 EDT

I second that sign.

-Timothy McVeigh

Doug Llewelyn, Court Reporter

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FoxHoundADAM — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:59:40 EDT

As someone who lives in Oklahoma I would love to see a Pro franchise here. Although I really wish it wasn't the NBA and even more so I don't want the deal to go down like it is with the Sonics.

Seatle can keep their underachieving franchise for all I care.

FoxHoundADAM

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Stev D — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:59:02 EDT

Clay Bennett could have taught Sean Kemp a thing or twelve about pulling out. Timing is everything.

Stev D

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David Hume — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:53 EDT

Which Seattle company was busted by Internal emails showing that they planned to do something shady, despite public claims of innocence, all while ramming a shitty product down the public's throat?

Microsonics?

David Hume

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the earl of weaver — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:49 EDT

See how many of Shawn Kemp's offspring you can spot in that picture. I count at least three.

the earl of weaver

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Sucko-T — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:38 EDT

@Spanish Necktie:

You know what I mean VERNon Maxwell?

Sucko-T

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strong like bull smart like tractor — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:22 EDT

15 years? They should be so lucky. Clay will have sold the team for a profit and the new ownership will be making googly eyes at Omaha or some other podunk shithole with big-league aspirations in eight years, tops.

strong like bull smart like tractor

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YukMouth — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:58:03 EDT

Thou shalt not speak thy name of whose name we do not speak of!

/fuck Modell

YukMouth

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GibbonJockey — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:56:13 EDT

Oh, and Tom... Don't cum yet.

/X-man

GibbonJockey

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Spanish Necktie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:55:12 EDT

Is that picture from "Earnest Goes to a Sonics Game?"

Spanish Necktie

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DrJimmy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:54:45 EDT

Much of SE Texas misses the Oilers, but not Bud Adams.

DrJimmy

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Gourmet Spud — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:53:48 EDT

It continued:

Ward: Check out the video tour of the proposed new arena in Oklahoma City.

Bennett: Aw, hell. You Rick Rolled me!

Gourmet Spud

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Naptown Drew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:53:30 EDT

The mom from "Family Ties" is not happy about the man behind her jackin' it with the hot dog.

Naptown Drew

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ArkansasFred — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:53:20 EDT

The power of Stern compels you!

ArkansasFred

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MattinglysSideburns — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:53:17 EDT

That's the kind of bold flavor they enjoy in Albuquerque!

MattinglysSideburns