The speech of NBA that expands to Seattle

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expects a discussion about the expansion that they will be one of the central issues if the owners of the league meet this summer.

This means that hot spots for basketball such as South California, Las Vegas and of course Seattle will be a potential expansion city in the mix.

“It now feels as if there is now a real movement in the long run to bring the NBA back to Seattle,” said Charlie Harger, co-moderator of “Seattle's Morning News” on Kiro Newsradio. “We already had these optimistic times, but it feels different, right?”

“This time the language that Adam Silver uses is,” replied Chris Daniels, an experienced journalist at Komo News. “We heard several times from the Commissioner when they could start an expansion process. At a time in the last year he said at a time in autumn. He was asked again this season, and then he came at the end of the season and basically gave a complete explanation of the importance of Seattle and the fan base at the meeting of the Governors Governors.”

According to Daniels, Silver laid the foundation for an expansion committee to examine possible cities for a few months this summer and to submit their results.

“Now that we have heard Silver, who expressly mentioned Seattle and Las Vegas, I think that writing is on the wall here,” said Daniels. “As soon as you start this expansion committee, it is Seattle and Las Vegas, and in a few months later a formal announcement will be made.”

Daniels quoted this Climate Plesse Arena, which is willing to accommodate an NBA franchise, an NBA-capable changing room that is currently being used for storage in “The Darms of the Arena”.

Who would own the Seattle Supersonics?

“Who do we consider in terms of potential owners?” Asked Harger.

“Well, Samantha Holloway, who belongs to the octopuses, has already made it clear that she wants to be part of an NBA franchise,” replied Daniels. “Her family, the late David Bonderman, had a piece of Celtics, so she tried to bring this group together to potentially find 4 or 5 billion US dollars. There will be several investors. There will be a long list.”

Daniels also announced that he would not be surprised if the owner group had a connection to Amazon and even throws the name of CEO, Andy Jassy, ​​in the mix. Amazon has the name rights for the climate promise -Arena and is already a partner of the NBA for the distribution of broadcast.

Listen to the full conversation here.

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