This is a couple days old, but Dr. Buss is one of the seven owners that will oversee Sonics’ owner Clay Bennett’s request to move his team to Oklahoma City.
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Micky Arison, managing general partner of the Miami Heat, is chairman of the NBA Board of Governors. He will oversee a relocation committee consisting of Jerry Buss (Los Angeles Lakers), Chris Cohan (Golden State Warriors), Lewis Katz (New Jersey Nets), Herb Simon (Indiana Pacers), Ed Snider (Philadelphia 76ers) and Peter Holt (San Antonio Spurs).
Holt and Bennett were part of a diverse ownership group that purchased the Spurs in 1993. Bennett then represented the Spurs on the NBA Board of Governors until 1998, when his father-in-law’s firm, the Oklahoma Publishing Co., sold its interest in the team to Holt, who then became the Spurs chairman of the board.
The relocation committee has not yet met, according to Frank, but has bought itself a little more cushion by delaying the time frame required for a recommendation. NBA bylaws provide a 120-day window from the time of a relocation request for the committee to make a final report to the full Board of Governors, which ultimately must approve of any move.
