<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>SEATTLE (AP)—More e-mails involving SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett have been revealed that could slow or even stop the team’s move from Seattle to Oklahoma City, a move the NBA overwhelmingly approved last week. A filing by the city of Seattle this week in federal court in New York includes e-mails to and from Bennett that show the NBA was concerned last summer that Sonics owners may be breaching their contractual promise of good-faith efforts to find a new arena in Seattle. In court documents provided Thursday by attorneys representing the city, Bennett stated in an e-mail to Sonics co-owner Aubrey McClendon last August 13 that the NBA was looking into issues “relative to certain documents that we signed at closing that may have been breached.” Bennett wrote that president of league and basketball operations Joel Litvin was looking into the possible breach. Earlier that day, Bennett had written an e-mail to McClendon referring to the fallout from McClendon’s comments to an Oklahoma business publication that “we didn’t buy the team to keep it in Seattle, we hoped to come here.” “Yes sir we get killed on this one,” Bennett wrote to McClendon. “I don’t mind the PR ugliness (pretty used to it), but I am concerned from a legal standpoint that your statement could perhaps undermine our basic premise of ‘good faith best efforts.” NBA commissioner David Stern fined McClendon $250,000 for his comment. The city is citing it as evidence Sonics o wners lied to Seattle when asserting they weren’t trying to move the team. The e-mails are part of the city’s recent filings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where Seattle is attempting to compel the NBA to provide financial records for all of its teams. The city is also trying to force Stern to testify as part of Seattle’s dispute with the Professional Basketball Club, the Sonics’ ownership entity, over the KeyArena lease.</div> http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=As29...p&type=lgns
