Slog - Comments on City Lawyers Will Question Bennett Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today NBA Commissioner David Stern with Sonics Owner Clay Bennett. Hopefully the city's lawyers will ask Sonic's owner Clay Bennett today why he never tried to re-negotiate the lease at KeyArena. This question seems central to the case. Yesterday, Bennett's lawyers made a big deal about how the terms of the lease were "economically dysfunctional" and did not allow the Sonics to be a financially successful franchise. However, rather than trying to deal with that problem over the last two years, Bennett simply tried to build a new stadium—which, to continue with Bennett's attorneys' own marriage analogy from yesterday, would be... Copyright 2008 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:55:12 -0800 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:21 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by cochise. Hopefully the city’s lawyers will read slog today before questioning as they did yesterday.

]]> cochise. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052242 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052242 City Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:03:32 -0800 Comment by Joe M That's a great picture of David Stern fondling Bennett's jewels.

]]> Joe M http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052260 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052260 City Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:26:50 -0800 Comment by max solomon bennett may not enjoy today, but he's going to win this eventually, and the suck ass sonics will be gone. he'll be hailed as a hero in his home cowtown, and he'll never have to come back to seattle again.

5 years from now, OKC will probably regret handing him the key's to the city's finances.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052274 City Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:37:25 -0800 Comment by PC no.

Assuming he did try to renegotiate the lease, there's no way of showing what the eventual deal would be or whether there would have been one -- total speculation.

And btw that marriage analogy sucks -- contracts aren't like marriage and can say things like "you have to stay and lease this and we get specific performance as a remedy" -- you don't get specific performance in a marriage, too bad for everyone not getting any --

I suspect there is no part of the lease that says "unless this becomes a bad deal for either one of us" .....if you can imply that kind of clause in a lease then no lease means anything.

Um why do we want the city to win anyway we can't support a team without public subsidies?

]]> PC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052363 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052363 City Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:49:18 -0800 Comment by holz for being a bazillionaire, bennett sure has
a. terrible taste in clothes
b. one of the all time worst haircuts i have ever seen.

you'd think when you don't have to actually work and have oodles of cash lying about, you can get someone other than your wife to cut your friggin hair. it's just hideous.

]]> holz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/city_lawyers_will_question_bennett_today#c1052555 City Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:30:21 -0800