The Oklahoma City Sonic Boomers? Ugh

Don't worry, that awful suggestion has not stuck or anything. But it was a suggestion Sonics minority owner Aubrey McClendon sent to a friend back in July 2006, according to a list of evidence buried in pre-trial documents published by the Tacoma News-Tribune in advance of the team's court date with the city of Seattle and a federal judge. (Link via Enjoy the Enjoyment, who has a good breakdown on the summary arguments for each side.)

Among the various documents on the city's list of evidence to be considered in the case is a slice described as "E-mail string from A. McClendon to KM8881@aol.com" re: FW: The Oklahoma City Sonic Boom (or maybe Sonic Boomers!) Baby!!!!!!!!!!," which has to break some sort of record for exclamation marks. The audacity of the tongue-maiming nickname is rivaled only by the audacity of continued claims by Sonics ownership that it never made eyes at moving the team to Oklahoma City.

That email -- again, forwarded on by a part-owner of the Sonics -- was sent on July 12, 2006. The new owners didn't even hold a press conference to announce the purchase until July 18, 2006! Before the sale was final the guy was talking about moving the team to OKC!

But David Stern still says Clay Bennett and Friends made "good faith" efforts to stick in Seattle, and no one ever talked about OKC. The sheer volume of blatant dishonesty involved here is astounding.