The guy on 620am was just saying that the NBA is against the Seattle offer because the stadium is privately funded. Supposedly that is not sitting well with 3 other owners who are currently asking voters for tax payers to build them new arenas.
You have just discovered a new theory for why referees are told to make bad calls against the Blazers.
Weird...the Seattle arena has a public contribution of $200M public money (NBA and hockey) or $125M (NBA only). Or something like that. Maybe they don't like that the private contribution is a bigger percentage than Sac? Could be that more than anything else, they like the threat of Hansen being out there to scare the politicians into giving them better arena deals.
I'll be honest, $625 million is enough money for Paul Allen to sell the team to Hansen and just give the deed to the Rose Garden to the city of Portland. The City of Portland is so fucked up they would let the Blazers out of their lease agreement in exchange for the Rose Quarter. Years back when PA was thinking about selling the evaluation of the team and the arena together was $300 mill.
Genius. Guessing the cheapskate owners won't like the idea of the Maloofs continuing to draw from the revenue sharing for the foreseeable future.
Lol maybe one of the other owners will step up and let Hansen buy their squad. The price is getting high enough, some of them may be thinking about it.
I'm guessing Hansen will get the Kings, now that the Maloofs said they'd sell him 20% and keep the rest and completely refuse to entertain the offer of teh SAC based group.
So, the question is after: 1. Blowing the doors off the Sac offer, with an increase in return to the Maloofs of $60 million 2. Making a huge relocation fee off that would give $4 million to each of the other owners 3. Guaranteeing not to be a revenue siphon (Hansen actually said the guarantee was to be a payor, meaning big budget payroll) 4. Putting a back up offer to the Maloofs that would basically fund the Maloofs to continue as Kings own and continue to siphon league revenue 5. Pointing out all the advantages his group had anyway (better funded, arena deal signed, land already purchased, permit and environmental review underway, etc.) ...has Hansen done so much that he's just PO'd the NBA and they reject him again? Second question, if he gets rejected, does he play nice or go scorched earth? Tomorrow should be an interesting day...the combined relocation and finance committees are meeting again. So the NBA isn't completely ignoring Hansen's moves
The BoG meeting is on the 15th, but the finance/relocation committee meeting set up a teleconference for tomorrow and the Hansen and Ranadive groups are reportedly presenting in person to the finance/relocation committee on Tuesday. Each of the next three days should be interesting. Mobes was my nickname from college and it's a takeoff of my last name.
