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NBA, Durant donate $1 million to tornado relief efforts

We've been speaking with [Thunder owner] Clay Bennett on a regular basis.

Thunder star Kevin Durant makes $1M tornado pledge

"Our hearts go out to all those affected by the devastation that has occurred within our community this week," Thunder chairman Clay Bennett said in a statement issued by the team.

Jerry Brewer: Seattle couldn't win this battle against NBA

Five years ago, Stern convinced Mayor Greg Nickels to stand down, drop his lawsuit against Clay Bennett and let the Sonics move to Oklahoma City, partly on the promise of getting a hookup "one day.

Jerry Brewer: Fight over Sacramento Kings is about entitlement

And staying in Sacramento could mean the greatest fiasco of this entire mess: The first squatting ownership group since Clay Bennett.

NBA panel to weight latest twists in Kings saga, reports say

"The members of the relocation committee are: Clay Bennett (Thunder), Ted Leonsis (Wizards), Micky Arison (Heat), Greg Miller (Jazz), Herb Simon (Pacers), Glen Taylor (Timberwolves) and Peter Holt...

AP Source: Hansen adds backup offer to Kings sale

That is $85 million more than Clay Bennett paid when he moved the SuperSonics from Seattle to Oklahoma City in 2008.

Jerry Brewer: Losing Sonics an $800 million (and counting) mistake

Five years after letting Clay Bennett move the Sonics to Oklahoma City without sufficient resistance, Hansen, Steve Ballmer and Peter and Erik Nordstrom are reaching valiantly for the city's...

Jerry Brewer: Seattle NBA group should keep pressing NBA

His rationale was, at best, infuriating: The fight between the city and carpetbagger owner Clay Bennett had become so nasty, so litigious, that it was bad for the NBA, and since the city was...

Seattle's Hansen vows to stay the course on bid for Kings

One thing that apparently caught him by surprise was the fact that only the Relocation Committee voted - a committee that is chaired by former Sonics owner Clay Bennett - and not the 12-member...

NBA committee rejects Seattle bid for Kings

Hansen, now a hedge-fund manager who works out of San Francisco, wasn't in a financial position to make a bid for the Sonics when they were bought in 2006 by Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett...

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· Most of the league execs flew out of Dallas shortly after the meetings ended, among them Clay...

Kings Blog: Ailene Voisin: Final thoughts, observations, tidbits from Dallas

· Most of the league execs flew out of Dallas shortly after the meetings ended, among them Clay...

It's decision day in Dallas on future of Sacramento Kings

purchase price - plus a swollen $116 million relocation fee, almost four times as much as the...

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Seattle and the NBA: It's a Game Rigged For the 1 Percent

Clay Bennett's model.

NBA Owners Reject Sacramento Kings Move to Seattle

They raised the valuation of the Kings to $625 million, or $406 million for the Maloofs'...

» Kings Will Stay in Sacramento

I hope Seattle gets a team, but that they get it by restarting it instead of stealing another...