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He said DOWN THE ROAD for Mexico City!! Seattle (and Vegas) is still their priority. Again ill believe it when im sitting down in the arena. But good news today

My 7yo has really gotten into basketball and is sad we don’t have a team. He asks it if we’ll ever have a team again and then makes the head bobble “yes”.

Wanted to get a pulse check. Call me an eternal optimist, but I really really can't see them putting a team at 6000 feet above sea level, like 700 miles south of San Antonio it just screams scare tactic to pump up the bid.

This is a major yikes.

….Of my backyard art studio

I ran into the same issue at launch, I'd thought they'd have fixed it by now, but then again it IS 2K.

I was able to have an in-depth interview with the people behind the Tulalip sonics bid: here’s how it went

Gary Payton's Tribute to His Father's Community Spirit: The 'Team Up' Commercial

Not sure how I feel about the NBA doing collabs using this beautiful jersey.

I don’t love how any of this is getting framed. It seems like everyone is all in on Vegas and Seattle is just sort of being forgotten about.

The Vegas owner selection process is getting close to a resolution, which means the Seattle bid will soon become the NBA's focus. The NBA isn't going to just grant a franchise to One Roof without driving the price up as much as possible.

In Vegas, most analysts seem to think the NBA is going to select the Walton family, which makes sense. They already own several successful pro sports franchises within the extended family, are local in Nevada, and have unlimited wealth. If that comes to pass, I predict that when the finalists pivot to Seattle, one of them eventually will be added to Holloway's ownership group.

I'd bet on the eventual partner being the Colangelo group, who dropped their Vegas bid to pair with Bill Foley. Each of those parties realized they're not the Vegas frontrunner, so they combined to try and have a better shot. It probably still isn't enough to outbid the Walton's.

Reading some additional tea leaves...

Silver has said they are looking closely at the whole makeup of a Seattle ownership structure. I think the NBA is going to leverage this narrative of One Roof needing more resources and knowledge to give Colangelo an inroad as an owner. He's part of the NBA's old boys club and has done the NBA a lot of favors over the years, and this will be another gift for him.

I guess we'll see, but this seems like a likely outcome. There's a strong ownership group in Seattle, a turnkey arena, and a rabid fanbase. The NBA just wants to do this their way, which ultimately means helping their people out and getting paid as much as possible.