Ears to the ground in Sacramento tells me that Kevin Johnson and his Think Big Propaganda Workshop proxy speakers are running around as fast as they can declaring victory and telling everybody that they did it. They are letting it be known far and wide that the league is going to vote against relocation and instead offer Seattle an expansion team within the next couple of years. Continue reading →

It really is getting down to crunch time.

That last thread is a pretty good example of what I think we should avoid. Having some respectful interaction with people from Sacramento is just great but for either side to think that they can get into a point by point debate and “win” by convincing the other is just not realistic or necessary. Continue reading →

I’m a little confused by people’s panic yesterday.

Nothing happened that was not expected. The general media has reported for months that a term sheet would happen on the 21st and after missing their date they release one on the 23rd. That sounds like worse execution than expected, not a major change in the game.

I don’t know that I want to get into belittling the document or the really admirable fan enthusiasm that is surrounding it. A term sheet was expected, one was delivered and very little in the game has changed. April 3 will come and April 19 will come. Until then just remember not to get worked up over everything that happens in the press and social media. Twitter is a nice tool but it has very marginal impact on anything that matters.

At 19 pages I think this is about as good a deal as Sacramento could have put together. You can see that they had a lot of this in the can from last year and were able to put together a nice looking document.

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Better late than never. Lets see what it looks like.