This is where you'll find all the linkage you need to get yer dander up, regarding Clay. Screw that guy.

Feb. 9, 2006
The Professional Basketball Club is announced in Oklahoma City. Members of this group were instrumental in getting the New Orleans Hornets to play their off year in Oklahoma. Now PBC wants a permanent team.

"The bottom line is, we want a team for this market.”
- Clay Bennett

July, 2006
Clay Bennett buys the Sonics for $350 million. His ownership group (Bennett, Aubrey McClendon, Tom Ward) the Professional Basketball Club (PBC) claims that the Key Arena is not an adequate NBA facility and contractually promises to spend one-year trying to find a way to keep the Sonics in Seattle

September 18, 2006
"I am ever encouraged each time I'm here and as the meetings progress and as we continue to begin to frame up our team and ideas about the future," he said. "I continue to see a successful conclusion."
-Clay Bennett

January 4, 2007
“Will interview (OKC) Mayor Cornett. We briefed the Mayor last night on the anticipated questions, which could likely include the prospect of the Sonics moving to OKC…”
- Brent Gooden, PBC consultant, email to Bennett, McClendon, Ward.

April 17, 2007
"Is there any way to move here [Oklahoma City] for next season or are we doomed to have another lame duck season in Seattle?"
-Tom Ward (co-owner)

“I am a man possessed! Will do everything we can. Thanks for hanging with me boys, the game is getting started!”
-Clay Bennett

"That's the spirit!! I am willing to help any way I can to watch ball here [in Oklahoma City] next year,"
- Tom Ward

June 5, 2007
Sonics arena consultant Tim Romani e-mails Bennett and asked that he talk to Oklahoma City manager Jim Couch before Romani was to "engage in earnest negotiations" with Couch.

“Jim and I will reach out to City Manager Couch in OKC to engage him in deal negotiations. It would help if you would place a call to him letting him know that you have asked us to represent you so he understands we are empowered and he should engage in earnest negotiations with us. Jim is preparing a Term Sheet that we would use to initiate the negotiations and run it by you before we engage to make sure we are in sync. Our approach will be to ask for the world so you may or may not want to pull back on the bit. We will start with a deal that is better than what the Hornets have. We will also address cost items such as NBA Relocation Fee, Relocation Expenses, practice facility and Ford Center improvements.”
- Tim Romani, PBC arena consultant

August 13, 2007
"We didn't buy the team to keep it in Seattle, we hoped to come here.”
- Aubrey McClendon (co-owner)

August 17, 2007
“As absolutely remarkable as it may seem, Aubrey (McClendon) and I have NEVER discussed moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City nor have I discussed it with ANY other member of our ownership group.”
- Clay Bennett to David Stern

April 10, 2008
"I have been lied to. All of the people of the state of Washington have been lied to.” - WA State Governor, Christine Gregoire.

April 10, 2008
“At the very least, Bennett and his co-owners demonstrated extraordinary cluelessness in committing their thoughts to e-mail., It's unbelievable that sophisticated business persons would lack the common sense to know that e-mails are records that are admissible in trials."
- Michael McCann, a law professor at Mississippi College School of Law and legal analyst for sportsillustrated.com