Motion Includes E-mails Indicating Sonics Owners' Plan To Move

City Of Seattle Claims E-Mails From Bennett Show He Was Negotiating In Bad Faith

SONIC BOOM: Another e-mail from McClendon to Bennett and Ward, sent just after the group purchased the Sonics from Starbucks Chair & CEO Howard Schultz, included the subject line "the OKLAHOMA CITY SONIC BOOM (or maybe SONIC BOOMERS!) baby!!!!!!!!!!" As part of the city's lawsuit to hold the Sonics to their KeyArena lease through September 2010, the city obtained "thousands of e-mails from Bennett's ownership group," and Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr said that the e-mails "provide further evidence that Bennett's group did not live up to its promise ... to make a good-faith effort through October 2007 to keep the team in Seattle." The city's immediate goal in filing the motion yesterday is to "enforce a subpoena for 20 categories of internal NBA records, including financial statements from every team in the league" (SEATTLE TIMES, 4/10). Meanwhile, in Seattle, Jayda Evans today writes the second article in a five-part Seattle Times series titled "The Five Stages of Grief," which focuses on the possibility of the Sonics moving. Evans writes under the header, "Anger: Sonics Fans Have Their Say." The other four parts are denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance (SEATTLE TIMES, 4/10).

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