OzSonic wrote:Heard it all before. "Don't worry, you'll get a team" It's all PR, a lot of upset and angry people in Seattle cooled off by this talk. Expansion won't happen, I don't know how you can justify it when there are quite a few teams who's hand is being held by the league including the one we tried to buy. Only way IMO is go and buy another team and go through all this **** again.
I think there's clear diff here cause you got an arena now, and the extreme financial backing. That's a major difference then the empty promise back then.
Silver's words are the most encouraging here and you can see there's a will to return to Seattle, and that the TV deals are the ones preventing it right now (TV deals that the negotiation to them is gonna start a year early according to a recent report).
I think as was mentioned in the GB, the real question mark is about the Seattle City government and if it'll change - and if it does, will it call it quits on the arena deal or say it needs to be moved elsewhere and jam it all up.
Obv I hope and want to believe that won't happen, but we'll have to see - I think as far as Hansen and the NBA goes this is pretty much a certainty to happen if things remain the same as they are today after the TV deals are signed.