Nice article in the NY Times about Presti


Presti Leading Thunder to N.B.A. Respectability - NYTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/sports/basketball/25thunder.html?hpw)


And great win! Oh man we wiped the floor with the Lakers tonight. Let's go game 5!!!!

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Wow...very nice article. Thanks for linking!

as I said before, OKC is the breath of fresh air that the NBA needed! And Im glad the Thunder is winning and proving all of the stereotypes wrong.

Give Bennett credit also for (a) hiring Presti, and (2) letting him do his job. Too many owners can't help to meddle in affairs they don't understand.

Give Bennett credit also for (a) hiring Presti, and (2) letting him do his job. Too many owners can't help to meddle in affairs they don't understand.
Most of the better owner know better, it the Dan Snyder and Jerruh Jones types that screw things up when they are going well. Bennett seems a lot more like the owner he had experience with (Spurs owner Peter Holt) than a Mark Cuban. Every league needs some of those type owners to keep things interesting and keep the establishment from getting stale, but for the most part a "very active" owner does his own team more harm than good.

Give Bennett credit also for (a) hiring Presti, and (2) letting him do his job. Too many owners can't help to meddle in affairs they don't understand.
Very true. However Bennett needs to loosen up a lot. In game 3, with like 3 mins left, the camera focused on Aubrey and Clay. Aubrey was in his blue t-shirt, standing up cheering as the Thunder roared into the lead and Clay was all buttoned up in his suit sitting down. Aubrey reached behind him and pulled Clay up to his feet and started clapping as if to say, here's how you do it! It made Aubrey look like a rock star and Clay look like a stuffy old codger.

Mr. Bennett may still be trying to figure out how to present himself. I don't think he is used to having too many cameras on him.