The above item was taken from the Facebook profile of 16 year old Graham Bennett, son of Oklahoma City Thunder owner Clay Bennet (image culled from Bend It Like Bennett). As the Sporting Blog’s Tom Ziller explained last month, “Crooked Oak is a public school in the poorer OKC city center. Graham apparently attends Casady, a $15,000-per-year private school located in a swanky part of town known delightfully as The Village.”
Far be it for me to say David Stern bet on the wrong horse, but in a league whose owners include Donald Sterling and James Dolan, it’s kind of amazing that a relative newcomer like the elder Bennett has managed to alienate so many in such a short spell. It’s also amazing the above story was so widely circulated 4 weeks ago and I somehow snoozed through it.
I’m glad to know about it, whenever. More fodder for my private enemies file on the loathsome Bennett. I don’t know if one person can represent an era to anyone but someone like me who’s desperately trying to make it so, but the fact that this guy was allowed to steal a NBA team and still owns it seems like a singularly ugly relic of a political culture that was, for the better part of a decade, dominated by a plutocracy of similarly half-retarded sun belt swells. I don’t begrudge Bennett the right to have millions of dollars and be an a-hole and live in Oklahoma; I just hate knowing about it. (But obviously also kind of love it, in a scab-picking way)—–
David – I agree, I also don’t begrudge a person’s “right to have millions of dollars and be an a-hole and live in Oklahoma.” I just want to make the living in Oklahoma part a mandatory law.
Ben