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Furness Show 3-25: David Aldridge, Mike Vornukov, David Locke and sound from Adam Silver · The Ian Furness Show

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  Speaker 1: Hello from the Star Rentals Sports to us Jordan ninety
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  Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM sports.
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  Speaker 2: Headlines, flight Choose Chill.
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  Speaker 3: NBA Board of Governors today voted to authorize the league
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  Speaker 3: to formally explore expansion in both Las Vegas and Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: What else do I need to say is that it
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  Speaker 3: be good, We're done, Thanks for thanks for coming, Good
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  Speaker 3: night everybody. Seahawks officially announced Jackson Smith and Jigba extension.
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  Speaker 3: Also in the Fell announcements, they will indeed open the
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  Speaker 3: season on a Wednesday. Stupid Mariners of notes open once
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  Speaker 3: opening day twenty six man day roster. JP Crawford unlikely
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  Speaker 3: to start the year healthy.
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  Speaker 2: He will be on the.
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  Speaker 3: Injured list as well. Let's see what else cracking Losing
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  Speaker 3: to shoot out to Forida Panza last night five before
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  Speaker 3: and next up they take on Tampa tomorrow at three thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, man, we got to show it to go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, let's go. Here we go, journalists, broadcast and
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  Speaker 3: print and otherwise we'll join us in a second with
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  Speaker 3: what today means. Also another gentleman, Mike movem Vukovich from
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  Speaker 3: the Athletical Joint has coming up the bottom of the
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  Speaker 3: hour David Locke at one forty five. I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 3: David lok how this team can be competitive in the
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  Speaker 3: first couple of years we got that. Coming up one
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  Speaker 3: forty five, we had so much going on. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: hear the Adam Silver news conference, the stuff that's he
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  Speaker 3: talked for a long time today we're gonna hear at
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  Speaker 3: two o'clock, basically everything having to do with expansion. Try
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  Speaker 3: to answer any questions you will have. Here's what we're
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  Speaker 3: doing though at the Queen Anne Beer Hall today. This
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  Speaker 3: is the new Jalis Goes. This is the new rally
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  Speaker 3: in the alley spot, and it has been since Climate
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  Speaker 3: Pledge opened, even before that as well. The Queen An
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  Speaker 3: Beer Hall is gonna have a celebration eight not the celebration.
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  Speaker 3: The celebration will come down the road, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a celebration today. There's a lot of people in
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  Speaker 3: here for lunch, simply see how's gonna be here in
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  Speaker 3: while they're gonna sell the T shirts. We'll tell you
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  Speaker 3: about those and how you can get those. But maybe
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  Speaker 3: come in, raise a pint, have a glass, say hello,
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  Speaker 3: and just kind of take a deep breath and say
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  Speaker 3: We're almost there. A long, long weight is almost over.
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  Speaker 3: Since two thousand and eight, when this team, the Sonics left,
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  Speaker 3: moved to Oklahoma City, when the city of Seattle sold
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  Speaker 3: out forty one years of history by not allowing the
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  Speaker 3: federal judge Marsha Peckman to come up with their final ruling,
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  Speaker 3: we've been without the NBA. But that's gonna end very soon,
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  Speaker 3: more than likely in the fall of twenty twenty eight. Jess,
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  Speaker 3: let me know when David Aldridge is there. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to make him wait. Sure, Well, okay, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: get him on in just a couple of seconds. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna read what it says in the press release today
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  Speaker 3: from the National Basketball Association, the NBA Board of Governors
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  Speaker 3: today voted to authorize the league to formally explore potential
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  Speaker 3: team expansion.
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  Speaker 2: To Las Vegas and Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: As part of this process, the NBA has engaged investment
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  Speaker 3: bank JT PGAT Partners as a strategic advisor to evaluate
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  Speaker 3: prospective markets. Seattle and Vegas are in the queue, as
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  Speaker 3: they would say, they are on the horizon, and we
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  Speaker 3: are here to talk about about it today again. Come
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  Speaker 3: on by the Queen Anne beer Hall did you say, David,
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  Speaker 3: is there?
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  Speaker 4: We have our man.
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  Speaker 3: David Aldridge is a busy man, like a very busy man.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're an NBA fan here in Seattle, you
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  Speaker 3: know the name. He's now with the Athletic. He has
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  Speaker 3: been covering this league forever, in fact, so long ago
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  Speaker 3: that he was actually covering the NBA. And we had
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  Speaker 3: a team here eighteen years ago and well before that
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  Speaker 3: as well, senior calumnists for the Athletic.
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  Speaker 2: He wrote a great story today. I would urge people
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  Speaker 2: to go read it.
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  Speaker 3: With NBA expected to formally begin expansion, vetting what's next
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  Speaker 3: in Seattle in Vegas? David Aldridge, I appreciate you covering
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  Speaker 3: out some time for us here in Seattle today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good. How are we all doing?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: You know what we're doing better than we've been doing
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  Speaker 2: in a long time out here.
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  Speaker 3: As you can imagine.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think we're doing? Great? Buddy, we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: You covered games here, You've been to this place, even
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  Speaker 3: though it was the coliseum or Key Arena. But you
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  Speaker 3: know what Seattle basketball is all about. What's what's just
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  Speaker 3: someone who covers this for a living. What's your reaction today?
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, it certainly seemed inevitable right for
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  Speaker 5: the last several years, that this was the way the
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  Speaker 5: league was eventually going to go. The question was would
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  Speaker 5: they expand would they look into expanding because they haven't
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  Speaker 5: actually expanded yet, because there were and I think Adam
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  Speaker 5: Silver said at his press conference today, there's still some
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  Speaker 5: owners that are like, why should we expand. Let's just
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  Speaker 5: you know, we have this great new media rights deal
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  Speaker 5: with seventy seven billion dollars and I'd rather not split
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  Speaker 5: it to otherwise, you know, I'd rather keep the one
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  Speaker 5: thirtieth we're getting for ourselves. And I think there's still
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  Speaker 5: some owners that believe that. But it certainly seems that
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  Speaker 5: the consensus now among ownership is to at least look
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  Speaker 5: at what the markets are in Seattle and Vegas and
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  Speaker 5: see who's willing to come up with. What we and
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  Speaker 5: other people have reported is anywhere between seven and billion,
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  Speaker 5: seven and ten billion dollars in expansion fees to pay
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  Speaker 5: four getting into the league, and that's what it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be.
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  Speaker 3: David, do you think there was any questions today that
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  Speaker 3: they would move ahead in the process they got the
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  Speaker 3: twenty three votes needed, or maybe more. Who knows, But
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  Speaker 3: do you think that there was any question you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: like some guys may not want to split that money.
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  Speaker 3: James Dolan, we've heard his name quite a bit as well.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think there was a question was very concern.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think Adam would have said it as strongly
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  Speaker 5: as he said it at All Star Weekend if there
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  Speaker 5: was any real thought that they may not have the votes.
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  Speaker 5: And I think this league is very very deliberate in
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  Speaker 5: how it proceeds with public pronouncements. And for him to
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  Speaker 5: say that they were going to have a Board of
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  Speaker 5: Governor's meeting in March to specifically talk about expansion, I
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  Speaker 5: didn't get the sense that once he said that that
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  Speaker 5: there was going to be a note load on expansion,
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  Speaker 5: they would have continued to speak in generality, He's about
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  Speaker 5: expansion and then maybe down the road. It is something
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  Speaker 5: what they've said basically for the last decade, right, no
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  Speaker 5: better than anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: They were very specific, very intentional about saying Seattle and
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  Speaker 5: Las Vegas. And once they say that, it kind of
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  Speaker 5: gave me the sense that they know that this is
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  Speaker 5: where they want to go and they want to see
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  Speaker 5: if this thing is going to work or not for real.
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  Speaker 5: And he was very clear that they need to know
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  Speaker 5: aboy the end of this year whether they're going or not.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that they won't knowbody the end of
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  Speaker 5: this year. And again I would be surprised, even though
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  Speaker 5: he caveated it a little at the end, I would
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  Speaker 5: be surprised that there aren't ownership groups in Seattle and
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  Speaker 5: Las Vegas with more than enough capital to make this go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that'll be a problem.
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  Speaker 3: David Aldridge, Senior ut an NBA for the Athletic joining
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  Speaker 3: us here with Queen An Beer Hall. Today people are
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  Speaker 3: raising the glass, having a little kind of a temper,
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  Speaker 3: but still a little bit of a celebration, which is fun.
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  Speaker 3: I want to just touch on before I let you go, David,
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  Speaker 3: one thing that you wrote about today, because I think
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  Speaker 3: this is something that a lot of us who have
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  Speaker 3: covered this, that have been around it, sat in the
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  Speaker 3: in the meeting in two thousand and eight and then
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  Speaker 3: saw the team leave. We've been wondering about I've saw
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  Speaker 3: it a long time. In Seattle's a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a chip in the relocation game in terms of trying
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  Speaker 3: to get maybe a building built. He old Portland, although
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  Speaker 3: they're getting the three hundred and fifty million dollars in
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  Speaker 3: terms of capital coming into the Motor Center. But whether
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  Speaker 3: it's Memphis or any other team, is relocation Is that
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  Speaker 3: just completely off the table now that they're moving ahead
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  Speaker 3: with expansion and where do relocation come into play over
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: I don't. I don't know that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that relocations off the table.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I think there certainly is at least some sentiment among
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  Speaker 5: some owners to look at that a little harder to
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  Speaker 5: see if there is a solution to a couple of
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  Speaker 5: the cities that are always kind of mentioned in these things,
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  Speaker 5: and it's I just think it's so unfair to like
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  Speaker 5: put those cities out there. I know that you know
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  Speaker 5: the cities that I'm talking about, and everybody's listening. Those
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  Speaker 5: cities are dark gyms, But I just I just hate
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  Speaker 5: it because they're they have fans too, you know, who
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  Speaker 5: have supported their teams for a long time, and to
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  Speaker 5: kind of be put out there as well your team
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  Speaker 5: could leave now, I just think I just think it's unseemly.
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  Speaker 2: I hate it.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't like it in two thousand and eight, they
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  Speaker 5: don't like it now, right so, but certainly I think
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  Speaker 5: that's something I think. I don't know that one is
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  Speaker 5: exclusive to the other. I don't think that expansion means
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  Speaker 5: that there's no chance that there's relocation in the next decade.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that it means that there wouldn't that
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  Speaker 5: there will be, But I do think that those cities
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  Speaker 5: have one. I would assume if this expansion goes away,
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  Speaker 5: I think it's going to go with Seattle in Vegas
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  Speaker 5: getting teams. Now, you look at the landscape of what
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  Speaker 5: other places could an NBA franchise move to. Right, if
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  Speaker 5: you take Seattle in Vegas off the board, they have
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  Speaker 5: clearly been the top two for a while. And there
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  Speaker 5: I will say this, there is still there are people
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  Speaker 5: who are like, we really need to look at Mexico
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  Speaker 5: City for real, like seriously, because it's a really promising
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  Speaker 5: market and for a team that for a lead that
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  Speaker 5: always wants to go international. That's still out there. Vancouver
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  Speaker 5: is still out there with some people, you know, because
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  Speaker 5: there's some people that thought they didn't get a fair
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  Speaker 5: shake the last time and they would like to have
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  Speaker 5: a second team in Canada. So it is possible that
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  Speaker 5: you could have relocation after expansion, I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 5: there would be quite as much appetite for it, because
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  Speaker 5: you're well, I shouldn't say that there could potentially be
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  Speaker 5: appetite for it, but I think that relocation is not
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  Speaker 5: at the front of their attention right now. Let's put
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  Speaker 5: that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's an interesting dynamic we've been living through
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  Speaker 3: the last few years in the sense here in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: David that you know, when things came up, the Malouf
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  Speaker 3: sale to Chris Hansen that never really went through back
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  Speaker 3: in twenty thirteen, and things like that. Yeah, the appetit
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  Speaker 3: height to take another town's team in this market. It
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  Speaker 3: went from no way would I ever want to do
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  Speaker 3: that to at this point we don't care. We want
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  Speaker 3: a team, to the point now where we're at where
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  Speaker 3: it's like, this is the best scenario expand give us
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  Speaker 3: our history back and it's clean and it feels better,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just it's it's you know, we're getting things righted.
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  Speaker 3: What would you to wrap it up? What would you
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  Speaker 3: tell Seattle Sonics fans, Seattle sports fans, how how excited
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  Speaker 3: should they be?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Look again, I think that they are certainly further down
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  Speaker 5: the road than they were six months ago. With this,
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  Speaker 5: it has coalesced at least to the point where the
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  Speaker 5: league has to is seriously going to look at this
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  Speaker 5: now and has a time and it does not have
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  Speaker 5: an endless timeframe like he's very specifically said, by the
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  Speaker 5: end of twenty twenty six, we need to go or
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  Speaker 5: no go with this. So there is de greates pressure
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  Speaker 5: to get this done one way or the other. And again,
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  Speaker 5: I will be very surprised if they come back at
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  Speaker 5: the end of calendar twenty twenty six and said we
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  Speaker 5: just couldn't find anybody that could pay the seven billion.
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  Speaker 5: We couldn't find a single entity in either city that
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  Speaker 5: could or either or in one of the two cities,
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  Speaker 5: we couldn't find anybody. You guys are very well aware
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  Speaker 5: of the cracking group and all of the NBA ties
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  Speaker 5: that are there, and the fact that the building was
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  Speaker 5: built to retrofit be able to retrofit for an NBA team.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just I never say never, because I've
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  Speaker 5: been burned too many times by believing something that was
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  Speaker 5: definitely going to happen. But I would be extremely surprised
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  Speaker 5: if there was not an expansion team in Seattle and
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  Speaker 5: Vegas by the end of this year. I just this
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  Speaker 5: is just not how the league operates. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: he caveated it with we're in a very unstable world,
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  Speaker 5: which is true, which is very true.
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  Speaker 7: But in the very.
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  Speaker 5: Unstable world, you just did a seventy seven billion dollar
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  Speaker 5: right steal. It was an unstable world a year ago
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  Speaker 5: when that deal got finalized. So it's still so. Capitalists
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  Speaker 5: tend to find a way to make things work, even
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  Speaker 5: an unstable time.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun feeling they're going to figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to get this through.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think you're right, folks. You can read
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  Speaker 3: David's work at the Athletic. We have a ton of
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  Speaker 3: your writers on on our show, on this particular show
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  Speaker 3: here at Kjarren, Seattle, all the time, and so we
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  Speaker 3: we love the Athletic. We love the fact you carved
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  Speaker 3: out some time for us today. David Aldridge, a long
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  Speaker 3: time NBA writer, broadcaster and joining us here.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate your time today. Thanks David, my pleasure.
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  Speaker 5: Good talk to you.
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  Speaker 3: David Aldridge joining us here. All right, we got a
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  Speaker 3: lot coming up. I'm gonna keep it right here, Jess.
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  Speaker 3: We'll break here in a couple minutes, because I want
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  Speaker 3: this day is special for so many reasons, and I
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  Speaker 3: want to make sure that you, the listener, the sonic fan,
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  Speaker 3: the sports fan, has your say. I mentioned this yesterday
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  Speaker 3: a little bit and it was surprising. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Anders is in there with you, Jess, or
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  Speaker 3: it's just you right now, just you. We've seen really
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  Speaker 3: kind of a tepid, it's sometimes even negative response on
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  Speaker 3: the text line yes, over the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 3: since his story first started to kind of percolate and
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  Speaker 3: come out. Now that we're here, the release is out.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna hear from Adam Silver at two o'clock and
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  Speaker 3: we carried it live earlier with MG in the midday.
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  Speaker 3: How we feeling? Is this a day to celebrate for you?
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  Speaker 3: Four nine four to five one on the Takuma doadge
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  Speaker 3: text line four nine four or five one?
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  Speaker 2: Is this a day for you to celebrate?
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  Speaker 6: For me?
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  Speaker 2: It is for me? It is this is data celebrate.
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  Speaker 4: This is the most significant step.
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  Speaker 3: This is I was just doing a thing here on
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  Speaker 3: TV a minute ago with one of the guys doing
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  Speaker 3: a live shot, and I said the same thing. I said,
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  Speaker 3: this is This is the most significant thing that has
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  Speaker 3: happened in this move in this movement to get a.
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  Speaker 2: Team back since we've been here. This is it.
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  Speaker 3: There's not even a question about that. It's the most
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  Speaker 3: significant day and we should be excited. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 3: temper your enthusiasm with the great unknown of could it
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  Speaker 3: not happen? Sure that's not going to be the case.
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  Speaker 3: This is going to happen. We will have a team
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  Speaker 3: here more than likely in twenty twenty eight, more than
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  Speaker 3: likely owned by the current or at least an investor
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  Speaker 3: group led by the current folks that run the Seattle
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  Speaker 3: Crack and Climate Plagerien except for Sam Halloway at the
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  Speaker 3: lead and other investors. I don't believe what David Aldridge
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  Speaker 3: said is accurate in terms of the money will I
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  Speaker 3: will push back on that. I don't think it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be the seven billion dollars we're hearing. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's way over inflated by an NBA owner or two
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  Speaker 3: that's trying to get that out there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it makes sense, but.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter to you as a fan, to be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you, that doesn't matter for you as a
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  Speaker 3: fan is today to day to seller. I can't tell
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  Speaker 3: you how to feel. I can tell you how I feel.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I feel kind of a weird almost relief, like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're finally We're finally done getting jacked around here, We're
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  Speaker 3: finally done getting pushed around here.
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  Speaker 2: I feel relieved.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we finally got to the point now
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  Speaker 3: where we can take that next step where we can
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  Speaker 3: actually be excited. So I kind of feel more relief
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  Speaker 3: in elation. But I do feel a lot of good
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  Speaker 3: emotions today. I don't know about you, Jess.
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  Speaker 4: I think relief is a very good word to use,
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  Speaker 4: to be honest, because I had mentioned yesterday that I
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  Speaker 4: had witnessed the fall of so many businesses and how
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  Speaker 4: I kind of saw lower Queena wither in the absence.
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  Speaker 4: But I came right on the tail end, or it
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  Speaker 4: takes a long time for that, you know, flower bed
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  Speaker 4: to dry, if you will. And I think relief is
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  Speaker 4: perfect because hey, we are not going to be a
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  Speaker 4: pawn in their game any.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, this is this is, this is us moving forward. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: I got a good friend of mine just sat down
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  Speaker 3: next to me.
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  Speaker 4: Well let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Our man Justin Andrews would call him juice, all right, juice.
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  Speaker 3: He owns the place here, Queen Anne Beer Hall, Occidental
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  Speaker 3: Beer Hall of course, the the Moss Bay Hall over
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: there in Kirkland.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: For all the people on the east side. Uh, this
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: is cool.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I'm a Southeast King County guy. They look down on me.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: He likes to rip on us east side. That's what
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: it is. What is today?
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Mean?
• 16:17
  Speaker 8: Man, it's it's the best news we've had, uh, since
• 16:22
  Speaker 8: two thousand and eight on this team, in this franchise.
• 16:24
  Speaker 8: It's it's, without a doubt, the best news we've had.
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: And it's it's it's a it's a reason to celebrate.
• 16:28
  Speaker 8: I walked in here today and you said, I told you.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: I said, yeah, we got David lock popping on earlier.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: All right, locked on, We're gonna break down the NBA
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: like only he can. Right, We're gonna do that. And
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: you mentioned something that jumped out at me. He said, ah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: rally in the alley? Oh yeah, Last Goes doesn't exist anymore?
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Is this the new rally in the alley? I hope so, man.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: I think the Queen Ann Beer Hall, we've we've we've
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: kind of cemented ourselves here on this on this hill
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: now is a big part of the sports culture. We've
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: had an amazing run with the with the Kraken getting
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: to do the playoffs and in year two, man, we're
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: just we're just excited. We we've had a blast with
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: the Storm fans and this is just such a cool community.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: The early two thousand's, late nineties, Queen Anne was incredible,
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: and it's and it and it completely shifted after two
• 17:14
  Speaker 8: thousand and eight.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna ask you this because it's not just
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: you guys.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: We love you and we're glad to be here today.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: We'll tell you about what people got coming up later
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: on today, especially when Safti comes in here and starts
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: yelling and screaming at three o'clock. This is a calm
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: before the storm. Bl What does it mean for the
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: business community around here?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: You mentioned it.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I got Jacob'shaughnessy's is gone, T. S.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: McHugh's is closed down. The old what's the old places
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: to me? All these places have shut down? You mentioned it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Queen Anne used to be the hub. We've seen some.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Stuff come back, for sure. You guys are thriving. Buckley's
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: is doing well. There's other places around We're starting to
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: see some things pop up, but adding forty one dates
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: because I think it's an important part of the process.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: What does that mean for the community business wise? What
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: does that mean for the local economy?
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Well, I can only reflect on the before and after
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: with the crack in that forty games made all the difference.
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: It's it brings so much business people walking around, just
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: visiting the restaurants, the coffee shops, I mean everything. It
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: just brings a vibrancy back to this area. As we
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: mentioned that the this this was the epicenter of Seattle
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: for a long time and that just changed and it
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: was it was it got really sad. I mean places
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: were boarded up and then COVID hit and it got
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: even really sad.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: But we've seen this.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Incredible emergence of Queen Anne and forty games. Forty one
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: games over you know, the a five month period of time.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: I mean, that's that's that's gonna be awesome. Aj from
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: Fox was breaking it down. There's there's ninety one open
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: days between you know, middle of October and middle of
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: April during the NBA season. There's ninety one open days
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: at Climate Pledge that don't have events, that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Don't have the cracking torn or an event right now exactly.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: You can fit forty one days in there.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: You can easily fit forty one in there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It's never going to be quiet up here. No, don't
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: think so. Like we've never had the thing.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: We've never had a building like this here, Like we've
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: never had that, Like the Coliseum didn't had one tenant.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Uh Kyarina had various tenants, sonics, thunderbirds, then the storm later,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: but it's never and you couldn't put big shows in
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: there because of the issues getting trucks in and out
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: all those things. Now we have a different situation one hundred.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Are we gonna see downtown Seattle, Seattle Center come back?
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: I absolutely believe. So there's without a doubt, there's gotta be.
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: This is gonna change this area or I mean it
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: already has. Yeah, you get to work inside Climate Pledge.
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: You know how incredible that that that that building is.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: They did.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: They did a phenomenal job. They they didn't They didn't
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: miss a beat. Every detail. The concerts and there sound better,
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: the the the walkways are white. Everything is just better
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: about that building. It's it's gonna be.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It's it has made for the NBA it's it's gonna
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: be the perfect place for for this team to come out.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: All right, what are you got coming up to? What's
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: going on here?
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: What are you doing?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: All right? So, uh, we're celebrating. Why not?
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: This is there's there's a good reason to celebrate, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: the reason to celebrate is a reason to celebrate in
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: So let's let's have some fun today. We're gonna be
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: doing five dollars smash burgers simply. Seattle's coming in here
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: to do a little pop up. They're selling some some
• 20:09
  Speaker 8: of their new uh, their new shirts. It's just gonna
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: be fun. It's a fun day, and we want we
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: want to see the NBA fans come out. We want
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: to see the Sonic fans come out. Let's let's let's hug.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: That's high five. Let's let's keep this truck on the road.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: All right, you're a Sonic fan, you're a Seattle sports fan.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Come on by today. Softy is starting at three. I'll
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: be here till three, Softy from three to seven place.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Let's get this place going and we're happy hour later
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: on this afternoon. All Right, rally in the alley, Let's
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: pack this place. Let's do it. That's justin here from
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: the beer Hall. We love these guys. We'll take a break,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: come back. We're gonna check back in with another writer
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: from the Athletic who's the NBA business writer, and find
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: out exactly what the next steps are in the process
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: and how close we are to getting the NBA back
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: on this historic day on Sports Radio ninety three point
• 20:49
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• 21:06
  Speaker 1: From the R and R Foundation Specialist broadcast studio. Now
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: back to Ian Furnesz powered by Seattle's closest sports book,
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• 21:17
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• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Back live at the Queen Anne Beer Hall, the shadow
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: of Climate Pledge Arena. It is a special day here
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: on Sports Radio ninety three point three kjr FM. NBA
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Board of Governors taking the first significant step towards expansion
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: including Seattle in Vegas and maybe, just maybe, after eighteen
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: long years, it will probably be twenty when it's all
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: said and done, the NBA coming back to a city
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that hosted it for forty one years. We got a
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: lot going on today, four nine, four to five one.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I want to hear your reaction on the text line,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: but more importantly, right now on the Beacon Ploding hotline.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Mike working off from the Athletic. He's the NBA and
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: basketball business writer. Had a great story today in the
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Athletic NBA governors talking about the voting for the expansion today.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Mike, I appreciate you joining us.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I know it's a busy day for you, but as
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: you can imagine, it's an exciting day for us out
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: here in Seattle.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: How are you doing today?
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: I'm good, You're right. It's been been a busy day
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: with the border Gunner's meeting and anamisover coming out of
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: it talking about expansion, which is now officially explored.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: You can check that off.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Tell tell fans out here in Seattle that have been
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: waiting forever, what does this mean? How significant of a
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: day is that? We think it's pretty big? What about you?
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Listen?
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: It's huge because now it's it's it's huge and both
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: just the start of something in defense that is the
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: lead finally kind of officially addressing this. Right after talking
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: around the end of a half decade, you know they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: gonna start looking with the market. Looks like the instrumentors
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: are they hire the advisory firm and all that type
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: of stuff, and it's you know, it's it's there's a process.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: But also you know, it doesn't necessarily mean that the
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: NBA will span today or tomorrow. Is Adam Silver said
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: today that there's a chance they might not expend at
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: all or potentially add you know, just one team, which
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: you know, well, we'll see who comes out of it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: But they're gonna start with to see what they can
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: get for a franchise and see who's out there, and
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: they hope to get something done by the end of
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: this calendar year, and so we should have an answer
• 23:27
  Speaker 9: by then whether this actually comes through to fruition.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Mike Common to assume that the that the investors and
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the ownership is there only because I know that at
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: least one group year is more than prepared to move
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: forward with it. Maybe there's multiple groups and bidders which
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: would take the question of is there anybody interested off
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: the table.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So let's assume that that's the case, that there will
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: be at.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Least one or two interested groups in each of the cities,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: or maybe just what we care about is Seattle. What
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: could derail this because they got the twenty three votes today,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: is that the biggest hurdle that they would have in
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: terms of ownership in the NBA, or is there still
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: a chance that James Dolan and others could could put
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: a monkey wrench into this?
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: Oh look, I mean I think the one thing that
• 24:13
  Speaker 9: Silver made a count of saying today is that there
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: are some owners who do think they're good at thirty. Right,
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: we don't know how that coning. As you said, they
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: need to get to at least twenty three. So that
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: means no more uh you know than than six or
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: seven can come together. And really it probably comes down
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: to what the mass it looks like. You know, the
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: expansion seeds gets split up amongst two owners, something gets
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: shared with the players, and the national revenue gets diluted
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: if you add one or two more teams. And you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: I think the insistance here from the NBA, and again,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: uh you you take this at the level of skepticism
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: that you want, is that they're saying this is a
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: strategic decision for them in terms of growth and markets
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: that they think will add to their product and not
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: just the financial one. And so uh well see what
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: comes out of that. But you know, it does seem
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: like there's a non zero chance that maybe there isn't
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: any expansion, but I would say it does still seem likely.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: At this point, Mike, Before I let you go, one
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: of the things I was curious about we just went
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: through this whole craziness with I guess what would be
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: called relocation, but the demise of the PAC twelve and
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: then you know the schools out here are Oregon and
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Washington go into the Big ten, USU CLA and all
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: that stuff. One of the things that happened when Oregon
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and Washington went to the Big Ten they did not
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: and still are not receiving a full share of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: media rights money and revenue. What do you think is
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: going to happen in regards to that. Has that been discussed?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Will the NBA owners give full revenue share for this
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: billion dollar television and the media rights deal to two
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: new teams?
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: Those are good questions.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: I don't know that it's been discussed yet. I'm sure
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: something that's in the back of people's minds, you know.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: I think it is interesting that a team that it
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: sums in, you know, in year one, they're set to
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: only have a salary chap that's set at truth of
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: the rest of the league. And the year two as
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: the eighty percent of the rest of league. Maybe that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: an indication that they wouldn't receive revenue commenser with every
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: other team because they won't meet us and they won't
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: be to.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Spend as much or won't be able to spend as much.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: So maybe that's at least the clue of what they could.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: Possibly do, But at this point, I don't know how
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: that would look like, although I think in the NBA,
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: you know, maybe it doesn't create the same competitive issues
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: as it would in college sports, just because of the
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: nature of that league and how it does kind of
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: trend towards parody and its rules.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: We feel like we're ready out here, Mike, before I
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: let you go last thing, we feel like we're more
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: than ready. The building is set to go. Climate Pledgerina
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: has a you'll laugh. I work for the hockey team.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I do television for them, and we laugh because the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: NBA locker room. There's an NBA locker room, at least
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: a couple, but one that actually says NBA locker room
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: down the hallways in Climate Pledge Arena. We use it
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: now to store some of their TV equipment for the
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: crack and Hockey Network, And it's a funny thing. It's
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: a battle between who wants to store stuff in there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: But we know that this building. I say that just
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: because this building is ready. At some point we'll have
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: to store our TV gear elsewhere. Uh, we know we're
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: ready here Vegas. We're not really sure Bill Foley is
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: he going to be a part of it. Do they
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: want to play in tea mobile arena or not? Is
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: there a chance we could see one as opposed to
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: two expansion teams? Would they go odd like they've done before?
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: I mean, look, there's a chance, and so I don't
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: want to say no.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I think it would cause a.
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: Lot of problems for the league, right playoff seating, conferences,
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: travel scheduling like. So I'd say it's not impossible, but
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: also it might just create more headaches than it's worth
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: for the NBA if it were to be implemented.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, we'll keep up reading the athletic Mike. Here's
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the good news.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: My great producer Jessman now has your phone number.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So just be aware, Mike. Be aware, sir, we might
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: be calling again. I think over the next two years
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: we could be calling again a few times. But you
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: know what's crazy busy day back there. We appreciate you
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: jumping on with us today.
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: No, listen, let's do it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: Should be fun.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: Hopefully if there's a team, I can get out the
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: seattle too, and then maybe that means I guess to
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: see what comments Pudge. We'll check from the inside.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: But why don't you, yeah, get the athletic.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Listen, you get the athletic to send you out here
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: to do a little recon mission and figure things out.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: We'll get you hooked up beforehand where I'm sitting right
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: now at the beer hall. We'll get you dialed in,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: we'll get you a tour of the place. You'll be
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: set to go.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: All right, all I heard is beer, so I'm in.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I love it. Thanks Mike, I appreciate it.
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: All right, good stuff there. Yeah, so we've got all
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: the insight from the the guys covering at David Oldridge,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Aldridge and Mike working off from the from the Athletic,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the NBA Business writer. Uh, we want to hear from you.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: We're gonna carve out a bunch of time in the
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: two o'clock hour to hear from you.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Softies. Here at three o'clock today.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: The folks from simply Seattle will be here soon to
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: get things set up and ready to rock and roll
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: and get things going there for them. In addition to that,
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: we will also UH will also be talking to a
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: ton of guests as the afternoon goes on.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: But we want to hear from you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I want you to go to the iHeartRadio app the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: red microphone that's the talk back Mike. Give us your
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: reaction to today, Jess. We'll go through those vanders a
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: little bit later. We'll get your text as well. Four nine,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: four to five one on the Takomindage text line. When
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: we come back, an old voice, the old voice of
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: the Sonics, David Locke, will join us a little locked
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: on what can this team do? I'm gonna ask Locke, Hey,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I don't care. I'm moving ahead, man, Jess. I'm moving ahead.
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: I like where you're at because you were no talk
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: until this.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: When what will the expansion draft look like?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: That's how far ahead I'm jumping right now.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: We'll t I love your optimism. It's awesome.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to locked on sports next.
• 29:57
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• 30:09
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• 30:14
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in Sports Radio ninety three point
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: three kjr FM. And we are at the Queen Anne
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Beer Hall today and simply Seattle is here. We've got
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: shirts going on, it's the it's the celebration before the celebration.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And I was thinking about who to get on today,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: and we're very fluid show.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: There's a couple of reasons. Our next guest is on.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: One.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: His expertise on the current NBA is top shelf, like
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: nobody does it better. Number two. More importantly, I walked
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: into the Queen Anne Beer Hall. I mentioned to my
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: man Juice Justin Andrews, the owner here. I said, yeah,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: He says, what do you got going on today? Said,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get this on this Hones said, I'm gonna
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: have David Lock on his Oh my god, locked on.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Let's go, let's talk some NBA. You got fans up
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: here still, David Lock, how are.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: You a lot? Is? That is very rewarding and nice
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: to hear, so tell him thank you very much. I'm
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: great and super excited for Seattle. I've just been kind
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: of running through the list of people. I mean, you've
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: got Brian Robinson and that save our Sonics crew that's
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: worked so hard. I've got my good friend Bridget Baccisi
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: used to be, you know, my boss, so I know
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: desperately wants the team back and contesting with her today.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: You've got you know, all sorts of people that just
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: you know, also the you know, the guy in Kent,
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: the person in Makatilla, or the woman and somewhere else.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: It's just it's part of give it back to being
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: part of the culture of Seattle. Those were special days
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: we were We've had a few ballgames this year that
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: I've been calling that maybe haven't been super intense, and
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: we ran down memory lane and somehow the other day
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: we're talking about being seven at the arena and the
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Marines coming out of the seat, out of the ceiling
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: and circulate circling the Sonic logo and the crowdshanding not
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: in our house when Sean Kent made free throws and
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: Carmelone didn't, And suddenly we're running through Frankfurtkowski and every
• 31:57
  Speaker 7: other member of that Sonics team because we were playing
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: one of those schemes right now that the NBA needs
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: to deal with, and you know, it was you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: and we were just all me remembering, and all of
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: a sudden, my sex Twitter feed was blowing up with
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: old jazz fans remembering those rivalries, and so, I mean,
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: just really, you know, I'm very happy for Seattle. I'm
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: very happy for the NBA. I'm happy for myself that
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I might actually travel to Seattle twice instead of New Orleans.
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: That sounds like the best trade I've made. The worst
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: trade that was ever made in history of the NBA,
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: which would be traveling to Oklahoma City instead of Seattle, only
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: rival by traving to Memphis instead of Vancouver. So yeah,
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, it would have been nice if they got this
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: right and to see Seattle Vancouver instead of Vegas. But
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: I understand.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: David Locke is the voice of the Utah Jazz the last
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: time the Sonics were on KJR radio. He was the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: radio voice for that before they disappeared onto parts unknown
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: for the final two forgetful years here in Seattle of
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: NBA basketball. Now a longtime voice of the Utah Jazz,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: but again the former voice of the Sonics here as well,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Uh David and longtime pre and postgame host, and I've
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: got I just you know what's funny is I thought
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: about some of the same things you just did as
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: this process has been going along, and having worked in
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Salt Lake with and for you and on Jazz Broadcast
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: for a while as well, and then Blazer TV broadcast,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: I've always missed the Sonics. But one thing I loved
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: about this, the Jazz and the Sonics rivalry was so special.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: We're a long ways away from that because we don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: have a team, and the Jazz need to go a
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: long ways to get back to the level they once were.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: But the current NBA, we hear about all the tanking
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: and all the negative, negative stuff. What's the good about
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: the NBA right now? Give me some good things.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: That we're going to see in a couple of years here.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, I mean, I think you have a four person
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: MVP battle right now that is as incredible as the
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: league has ever seen. I don't know that we've ever
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: had four players at the caliber of Shai Gilgess, Alexander Luka, Doncic,
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Nicole Jokitch and Victor webin Yama ever competing for an
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: MVP at the same time like this, I'm pretty certain
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: we've never had it. We've had, you know, Michael and
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: Michael and Carl battle, and Michael and Charles battled, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: you know, Moses and somebody else's battle, but we've never
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: had a four forse race like this. And then when
• 34:16
  Speaker 7: you look at the ages of Jo Kisch has been
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: four or five years and Jo Kisch is putting together
• 34:22
  Speaker 7: Ronnie's three years. Every great player in the history of
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: the NBA has been top five MVP ballot for ten
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: straight years. It's just an incredible accomplishment if you think
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: about that. But you think about the seven eight greatest
• 34:31
  Speaker 7: players in the NBA, that's the lot your top five
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: MVT peak nded for ten straight years. Jo Kich is
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: on year seven this year, so he's about to be
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: there with Duncan and Elijah Won and Bird and Magic
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: and Jordan and the greatest of all time and these
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: next kids are coming and Victor is going to be
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: one of those two. And there's nothing like it. I
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: can't explain what Victor Rebnyam is like to you. It
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: actually it kind of blows your mind. It's like going
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: to watch a concert of this year. You actually never
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: thought you'd see anything like it. And then to watch
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: him play and watch him move. You've got Shay doing
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: what she's doing. Luca is a single, one man offense.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: You've got those four players. Oh I got here, Sonic fans.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: All four of those are in the Western Conference. Good luck, welcome.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Let me let me get to this before I let
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  Speaker 2: you go.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: David Locke joining us, the we don't know and again,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: look I'm I'm way. This is how it works. You
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: know you did sports ready for zillionears. We're gonna jump
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: ahead of the horse.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: We got guys with simply say I selling shirts today
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: that we got now all kinds of fun stuff here
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: at the Queen and Beer Hall.
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: Get me one, Get me one. That's what I want. Jam,
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: This is from me being on the show. I need one.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: Send one to me.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: What size? What size?
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: I'm a large still, I'm a large. Email. You just
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: got me off the peloton.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: This is why I'm jumping ahead, because we're ways away.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: But the only thing we have to look back on
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: is the Charlotte Bobcats expansion draft.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And I bring that up for this.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Let's assume right now and this is where I'm gonna
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: just this is where you're gonna nerd out, because that's
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: why I love you. Let's assume it's similar rules. Eight
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: players protected on a roster per team. You can take
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: one guy off of the team. It's probably a two
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: team Vegas and Seattle thing. We're hoping Vegas is late
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and we get just one and we get the Vegas
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Golden Knights treatment. But let's just assume that. Can you
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: put together a competitive team? Do you think in the
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: first couple of years.
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: So yes, maybe not in the first couple of years.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: But actually, let me just share one conversation I have
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: with someone in the NBA front office recently. It is
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: in the CBA, what the rules are right now? If
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: you're actually looking at CBA, they have expansion draft in
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: the CBA. He's not sure they'll follow them do. He
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: thinks there might just be a desire by the team
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: to just have the cast space and not as to
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: worry about a roster. So it's an interesting concept because
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: the biggest change that has made in the NBA in
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: the time that it left Seattle is how flue the
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: rosters are, how short the contracts are, and how restricted
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: the collective bargain agreement is. So there might be an
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: argument if you're the Sonics, you'd rather just have capstick.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: I think you'll probably get one player from these teams,
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: and they won't be very appealing, and they'll probably be
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: bad contracts because the new collective barrier. I cannot explain
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: to you how incredibly prohibitive the new collective barrier agreement is.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: That is the best news I can give you as
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: a Sonics fan. The league has flastened out a great deal.
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: Oklahoma City, unfortunately, is great. Nctory thinkty crazy. It's still
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: not over it, nor are you, nor is anyone. I'm
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: right there with all of you. I'm still not over
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: I still hate them every time I see him, but
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: people are so freaking nice, and I'm like this, screw
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: all of you for being nice. It's even more mad
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: when I go see you. My engineer there, Britt Robinson,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: is the nicest man in the world. Like finally told me,
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: I really wish you were a jerk. It would make
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: my logic feel better because you know, for first prize
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: you get two days. Still Oklahoma City for second price
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: you get five. So anyway, those like Oklahoma City is
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: gonna be a major money problem here in the next
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: two years. Everyone it's in major money problems all the year.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: The Jash has made a massive trade, they're going to
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: be a major money problems. So the league's collective argament
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: is so restrictive right now and is flattening the league.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: It's also why it's tanking so bad. This is a
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: different issue with the reason the tanking so bad it
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: because every team's good, so so thank you have to
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: make it so obvious right now because every team's good.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: Second thing, there's now a ninety percent salary for I
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: know this is geeky, but every team has to be
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: there ninety percent. Surch mansion teams will get a little leeway,
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: but it also means that everyone's much more even than
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: they've ever been, so it will be a much more
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: easy environment to compete for Seattle than anywhere else before.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love your hate distain.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: I know that was super geeky, but no, yeah, I
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: call them.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Thank God we do too, David, You're the best, buddy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I appreciate popping on again. People up here.
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: Congratulations in Seattle. Way to go the patient. The next
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: we quick Bunny, when we were a little kids, pull
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: these patients the virtue. It seems like a bigger way,
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: too freaking long and been really unfair. It's super happy
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: for you. I can't wait to call my first game
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: in Seattle. I will high size every single one to
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: do when that day comes.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I can't wait, buddy, can't wait to see you. Thanks
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: all for popping on. That is David Locke. We'll take
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: a break, come back. We'll hear from the Commissioner Adam Silver.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: No from the Star Rentals.
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  Speaker 3: We are live at the Queen Anne Beer Hall and
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  Speaker 3: the shadow of Climate Pledge Arena, the future home of
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  Speaker 3: the National Basketball Association. Why well, Today the Board of
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Governors of the NBA voted to authorize the league to
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: formally explore potential team expansion to Vegas and Seattle.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: That's a long way.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Of saying we're getting a team back. We'll tell you
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: more about that in a second. Seahawks officially announced the
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: JASN extension.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I had a chance to catch up with him.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: May not get to that interview today, but well tomorrow,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: and it was actually a really fun interview. We went
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: one on one with JSN just a short time ago.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: We should mention the Mariners announcer opening the twenty six
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• 40:05
  Speaker 3: lose in a shootout to Florida last night. They got
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: a point which frankly down four to one with five
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: minutes to go, you would have said, will you take
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: a point? Yes, one to two, got one. Nice, We'll
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: come back. Gets a little harder tomorrow Tampa Bay's really
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: good three thirty pre game four o'clock face off right
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: here at home for the crack at nine three point
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to our number two.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back in quinn a Beer Hall, Hour
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  Speaker 3: number two of the show. We are hanging out this
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: afternoon and a reason to celebrate. Maybe not the celebration,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: but a celebration, no doubt about it. In just a minute,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: we'll hear from Adam Silver. And what we did is
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: we took his, however long, sixty minute press conference kind
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: of down to twelve because frankly, we don't care about
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: what's happening with You know, if Portland wants to tank
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: or the Jazz want a tank, it's that's your problem.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: We'll worry about that in two years.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: We've got all his thoughts on expansion coming up in
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: a second. But again, the NBA Board of Governors voted
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: to authorize the league to formally explore potential team expansion
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: to Vegas and Seattle. So we're here at queen An
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Beer Hall. Before we get to that, we should mention
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Softy will be here at three yell and screaming being Softy,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: and the simply Seattle folks are going to be here
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: selling T shirts, brand new T shirts. I think it's
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: not we got next, it's we got now, I think
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: is what it is. We got now? And the voice
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: you heard next to me, I wanted to get him
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: on before he hit it out. It's been too long.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: It's also been an interesting relationship I've had with this
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: guy since day one when I got here and I
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: was doing Ian and Alease at night on KJR, when
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I took over for David Locke back in two thousand
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: and six, and we were worried about keeping our NBA team.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: And there's a little group called Save our Sonics that
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: got put together, a grassroots foundation, just a bunch of
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: dudes led by my friend Brian Robinson. And over the years,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: so those first two three years, we talked a lot.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: You were on the show. It might as well have
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: been on the payroll, and I always thought we would
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: save them. I always thought, you guys, I thought that
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: would happen.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: It didn't.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Eighteen years later, we sit here. We got this incredible
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: building up up there. We're sitting in this cool place
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: to go before games. Maybe Queen Anne's coming back, but Brian,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: I think the NBA is coming back.
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: We certainly hope. So, right, it's been a long time.
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: Thank you for that kind intro, and it is, you know,
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: it's been such a ride, right, it's been such a
• 42:48
  Speaker 11: journey together, and today is a really good day. And
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: I think that there are a lot of people who
• 42:53
  Speaker 11: think that it's done and it's you know, ninety nine
• 42:56
  Speaker 11: percent done. Probably I don't think they let it get
• 42:58
  Speaker 11: this far unless it was it was done. But also
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: we've all been at this a while. We know that
• 43:04
  Speaker 11: every time, but every time we thought that we had
• 43:06
  Speaker 11: clear path ahead, we found that there's reasons. So the
• 43:10
  Speaker 11: way I heard it described by someone the other day
• 43:12
  Speaker 11: was there's probably a few ups and downs ahead of us,
• 43:15
  Speaker 11: and that's that's kind of what I'm prepared for.
• 43:17
  Speaker 10: So I'm trying hard to hold it in, but.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Happy to be here. You got a beer in front
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: of you. That's what we're gonna do. Have a couple
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: of toast as the day goes on today. Yeah, absolutely,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty five minutes away, so to having the one
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: as well. Brian, when we look back on this time,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: I tell a story often. I said, you know, we
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: were sitting on July second, two thousand and eight. You
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: were in my studio at the old building just right
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: across the street from were sitting right here. We were
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: waiting for Judge Marsha Peckman to make her ruling. All right,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: The attorney for say of our Sonnics, Paul Schneiderman and others.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: We're pretty well convinced that it was going to go
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: the city's way, that they would have to stay here
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: for two more years. It's weird how things happen because
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: I tell the story Brian Brian got a call from
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: city Hall and said, hey, can you come down.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Here right away?
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: And we're thinking, oh, that's not good, and it wasn't.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: They got the team, the team left. We were told
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: that was our quickest path back. Nobody thought it would
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: be eighteen years. Why do you think it's taken so long?
• 44:17
  Speaker 10: I think this is a really hard thing to do.
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: I understand now why Clay Bennett sunk his teeth in
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: and didn't let go, because you know, the people like
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: to put the word just in front of it, you know,
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: just build an arena, just get a team, and putting
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: the word just doesn't make it any easier. That these
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: are kind of global forces. The NBA is hard to align.
• 44:36
  Speaker 11: People always want to say, you know what is the NBA, thinking, well,
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: the NBA is not a single person. It's thirty two tribes,
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: and those thirty two tribes have or thirty tribe excuse me,
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: hoping to make it thirty.
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: Two, and so.
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: I think it has taken more investment than we ever thought,
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: more time than we ever thought, and all the people
• 44:54
  Speaker 11: who kind of thought we were getting ahead of it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: I used to think that I would make a difference,
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: you know, and it's it's taken billionaires, hundreds of thousands,
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: millions of dollars to get us to.
• 45:06
  Speaker 10: Where we're at today, to set the table.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I think you made a difference. I think I'd put
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: it this way. I think you made a difference. I
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: think a lot of our listeners listening right now have
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: made a difference. Companies like simply Seattle with the gear
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: like I'm learning or wearing like you made a difference
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: because the pilot lights stayed on. And I think that's important.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I think the pilot lights, through all the frustration, through
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: all of the angst, through all of the bitterness that
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: we all harbored and rightfully sold for so many years
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: and still do until we see the ball go up
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: in the air, climate pledge. I think despite all that,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: we kept the pilot light on. And I think the
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: NBA understood and understands how important this is, how big
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: a basketball market this is. So I think everyone in
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: there anyway anybody listening, you and others, I think.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Everybody made a difference.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when it's Sam Hall, I'm sorry interrupt,
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Sam Holloway in that group would not be interested in
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: an NBA team in that building if there wasn't that intro.
• 46:03
  Speaker 11: I think absolutely that, you know, we have to keep
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: them feeling good about what they're doing, right. We have
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: to show them that they're appreciated and that the power
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: and the passion is here.
• 46:12
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I.
• 46:13
  Speaker 11: Uh, I let when things stalled a little bit last
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: year and everyone's hoping for a vote last July, I
• 46:20
  Speaker 11: was really of the opinion that that was we were
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: here in maybe one to three years before it kicks
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: up again. And if it was three years, my feeling
• 46:27
  Speaker 11: was that was the point where it just transitioned to
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: where it was not a continuation of the old thing.
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: We were going to have a start from scratch. And
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: it happening right now. If this goes through and it
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: marches through and we get a twenty year anniversary team,
• 46:40
  Speaker 11: I think what we in Seattle should feel really successful
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: about and keeping the Light alive is that that will
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: be a long term victory that that you know, we
• 46:50
  Speaker 11: thought we were defeedb but the buzzer didn't ring.
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: The buzzers never rang like we we fought.
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: And it will be a continuation of the old team,
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: and now we've got to find a way to bridge
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: the past and the few. Sure, but I think the
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: team will ultimately be way, way more successful because it
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: has so much legacy because we managed.
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: To keep that alive. I feel really good about that.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you, I appreciate the friendship, appreciate you and
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: all you've done the whole group. There's a lot of
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: you guys that put a lot of time and effort
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: into it, away from your families and everything else. And
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: when that ball goes up in the air, I trust
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: you'll be in the building, and when you are, you
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: should take great pride because you're right. We lost it,
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: but it's coming back. Time to look forward, not look backwards.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: And I appreciate it coming by man. Oh absolutely, thank
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: you so much.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: And Brian Robinson to Sam Arsnicx. Love having them on. Cheers.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: I enjoy that beer. Here's the deal. Let's hear from
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: the Commissioner of the NBA, Adam Silver.
• 47:42
  Speaker 12: Good afternoon. Everyone appreciate your being here. So we just
• 47:45
  Speaker 12: concluded two days of meetings with our Board of Governors.
• 47:49
  Speaker 12: A bunch of issues were on the agenda first and foremost.
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: And you all know at this point because we shoot
• 47:55
  Speaker 12: a release that the board voted to explore expansion in
• 47:59
  Speaker 12: Las VEGAEUS in Seattle. You know, I excited about that opportunity.
• 48:05
  Speaker 12: We've had discussions with elected officials both in Las Vegas
• 48:10
  Speaker 12: and Seattle and Nevada and the state of Washington. We
• 48:13
  Speaker 12: have long histories in both of those markets. Of course,
• 48:16
  Speaker 12: we had a franchise in Seattle for over forty years.
• 48:19
  Speaker 12: We have a WNBA franchise in Seattle right now, and
• 48:24
  Speaker 12: there's enormous amount of passion for NBA basketball in w
• 48:27
  Speaker 12: NBA basketball in that market in Las Vegas, and we
• 48:31
  Speaker 12: have a WNBA team in Las Vegas, been there for
• 48:33
  Speaker 12: several years now with great success. And I used to
• 48:37
  Speaker 12: joke with both Mayors Goodman Oscar and Carolyn that it
• 48:42
  Speaker 12: was as if we had a franchise in Las Vegas already.
• 48:45
  Speaker 12: With our summer league, given that we occupy that two
• 48:49
  Speaker 12: week plus period in July, it's become a major place
• 48:54
  Speaker 12: of operation for the league. And we've had multiple USA
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: Basketball training camps there as well. So I think two
• 49:01
  Speaker 12: markets with deep basketball routes and deep connections to the NBA,
• 49:07
  Speaker 12: and we're excited to begin that process. As we said
• 49:11
  Speaker 12: in the press release, we are in the process of
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: engaging an investment bank here in New York City called
• 49:18
  Speaker 12: pj T. It's led by someone named Paul Tabman, who's
• 49:22
  Speaker 12: been working with our league for decades. Actually was part
• 49:27
  Speaker 12: of a process when we expanded to Canada roughly thirty
• 49:31
  Speaker 12: years ago, so he's very familiar with the league, as
• 49:35
  Speaker 12: is his organization. And as I said, I anticipate enormous
• 49:40
  Speaker 12: interest in both those opportunities. So Tim, with that, happy
• 49:43
  Speaker 12: to answer any questions.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: We'll start in the third row on the right.
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: Tim, I had Tim Reynolds with the AP good to
• 49:49
  Speaker 13: see as always on expansion. Can you share if there
• 49:56
  Speaker 13: was any concerns. I mean, you've talked about this and
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: it is a complicated thing selling in the league. We
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: all understand that if there was any concern that any
• 50:04
  Speaker 13: owners expressed, and to that end, I know it just happened.
• 50:08
  Speaker 13: What's a logical timeline You probably won't commit to one,
• 50:11
  Speaker 13: I get that, but what are the logical next steps
• 50:15
  Speaker 13: and what's the hope as far as how long this
• 50:16
  Speaker 13: part of the process might take.
• 50:18
  Speaker 12: Sure tim there weren't concerns, I will say, in a
• 50:22
  Speaker 12: way weren't a good situation because there are some owners
• 50:27
  Speaker 12: who felt that we just frankly don't need to expand,
• 50:30
  Speaker 12: so they didn't necessarily see concern with going forward, but
• 50:34
  Speaker 12: felt we're in a very solid place with the thirty
• 50:36
  Speaker 12: team league we have now. I think there Seattle and
• 50:40
  Speaker 12: Las Vegas, in terms of their history and supportive NBA
• 50:43
  Speaker 12: basketball are unique in terms of available markets in the
• 50:47
  Speaker 12: US right now. No knock on any other markets, those
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: are just the markets were focused on. So I think
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: there was a discussion about, of course delution economically and
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: delution talent wise, and I think there was a presentation
• 51:00
  Speaker 12: by Paul Tabman and others at the league office about
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: what the implications are by if you're always a reminder
• 51:07
  Speaker 12: when you expand, you're selling equity in the existing league. So,
• 51:12
  Speaker 12: for example, if partners share in one thirtieth of national
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: television revenue or one thirtieth of international opportunities. Now if
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: you expand by one team it's one thirty first, you're
• 51:23
  Speaker 12: one thirty second with two teams. So there's that straight
• 51:26
  Speaker 12: economic analysis. There's also potential dilution of talent. I mean,
• 51:31
  Speaker 12: if your goal as an MBA owner ultimately is to
• 51:36
  Speaker 12: win a championship, no matter how well managed your team is,
• 51:39
  Speaker 12: if there are two more teams out there, number one,
• 51:41
  Speaker 12: you're presumably going to lose some talent to those teams.
• 51:44
  Speaker 12: But also it's harder to compete if there's to win
• 51:47
  Speaker 12: a championship if there's thirty two teams, then if there's thirty.
• 51:50
  Speaker 12: So again I wouldn't put that in the category of concern.
• 51:53
  Speaker 12: It more went in the category of considerations. But it's
• 51:56
  Speaker 12: also why just to make that distinction, we didn't announced
• 52:00
  Speaker 12: today we are expanding. We announced that we're exploring expanding,
• 52:04
  Speaker 12: And part of exploring expanding means I mean, one, of course,
• 52:08
  Speaker 12: there's the economic implications of what's the value of that franchise.
• 52:12
  Speaker 12: Those or franchises will ultimately be determined by the market,
• 52:16
  Speaker 12: and then the league has to make an assessment whether
• 52:19
  Speaker 12: it's then worth it to go forward at those valuations.
• 52:22
  Speaker 12: But I think they care a lot about who their
• 52:23
  Speaker 12: potential partner or partners might be, and then particular situations
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: in each market, like what arena would we play in,
• 52:32
  Speaker 12: you know, what our plans are, people looking at other arenas,
• 52:36
  Speaker 12: all those things are part of the consideration set. So
• 52:40
  Speaker 12: the discussion today and in the meetings leading up today
• 52:44
  Speaker 12: went more to our right, what are all the factors
• 52:46
  Speaker 12: that we'll look at. And then ultimately the view is
• 52:49
  Speaker 12: you could explore expansion more softly by just having conversations.
• 52:54
  Speaker 12: But certainly it was my view and others that we
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: owe it to these markets to be transparent and to
• 52:59
  Speaker 12: be more formal with our approach to that so that
• 53:03
  Speaker 12: everybody feels they have a fair shot. There's an investment banker,
• 53:06
  Speaker 12: there's people at the League office working on this. And
• 53:08
  Speaker 12: so if you are interested, and I'll say that now
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: to people who may be listening or watching this, if
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: you're interested, called the League Office, called PGAT Partners directly
• 53:16
  Speaker 12: in New York. There's and just want to make sure
• 53:19
  Speaker 12: everybody understands there's been no handshakes on the side, There's
• 53:22
  Speaker 12: been no commitments, there's been no promises to anyone. This
• 53:25
  Speaker 12: is this is a completely transparent process. Nothing is set
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: in stone right now. You asked me another part of
• 53:32
  Speaker 12: the question, timeline. You know, as I said before, our
• 53:37
  Speaker 12: goal was in twenty twenty six to resolve this issue
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: one way or the other. So I my timeline, you
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: know we weren't so specific with the board, is that
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: we need to know by the end of this calendar
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: year what it is we're doing. It may not be that,
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: you know, every eye is dotted, but that would be
• 53:57
  Speaker 12: our goal this year.
• 53:58
  Speaker 14: The second row to and from the right, Chris Fisher,
• 54:01
  Speaker 14: Chris Daniels, Frokoma TV in Seattle go to c again
• 54:04
  Speaker 14: under these circumstances. We all know what happened eighteen years ago,
• 54:07
  Speaker 14: and the past is prologued to this. Since the team moved,
• 54:12
  Speaker 14: both Amazon and Microsoft are now two of the most
• 54:14
  Speaker 14: wealthiest companies in the country. Amazon is now a partner
• 54:17
  Speaker 14: for you. We know about all the NBA players that
• 54:19
  Speaker 14: have moved from Seattle. Tens of thousands of people have
• 54:22
  Speaker 14: moved to Seattle since the franchise left. So the question
• 54:24
  Speaker 14: is what does the city of Seattle have to do
• 54:27
  Speaker 14: to prove itself in this process? And do you expect
• 54:30
  Speaker 14: multiple bidders whether it's in Seattle.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Or Las Ves.
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: I do expect that there will be multiple bidders, and
• 54:36
  Speaker 12: I don't think it's about anything specific that the city
• 54:38
  Speaker 12: of Seattle needs to do. As you say, we have
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: strong business partners there. I travel there frequently. The Storm
• 54:44
  Speaker 12: have had great success in Seattle. It's just a wonderful market,
• 54:49
  Speaker 12: and on top of that enormous economic growth around technology.
• 54:53
  Speaker 12: I think it has more to do with who comes
• 54:55
  Speaker 12: forward as the potential owner, understanding the arena situation, understanding
• 54:59
  Speaker 12: the economics, because putting aside what somebody is willing to
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: pay for the franchise, we want to make sure they're
• 55:06
  Speaker 12: in a position to be successful, and whether that means
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: sharing a building, you know, with the hockey team, or
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: whatever arrangement is put forward. That's what I meant before
• 55:15
  Speaker 12: when our team owners are on one hand, they're compete
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: like crazy on the court, but then they're all partners.
• 55:21
  Speaker 12: And I think part of the issues we'll be looking
• 55:24
  Speaker 12: at is will we be putting a team in position
• 55:26
  Speaker 12: to be successful in Seattle. I mean, I see no
• 55:29
  Speaker 12: reason standing here today why that shouldn't be the case.
• 55:32
  Speaker 12: But we're going to work through this process.
• 55:34
  Speaker 9: Second row to and on the left him I Adam
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: Tim Bush and Seattle Times.
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: Hey was the expansion fee brought up as part of
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: the conversation.
• 55:43
  Speaker 10: With the owners today or.
• 55:45
  Speaker 15: Expected to expansion fee, and do you believe the reports
• 55:48
  Speaker 15: out there of something north of seven billion potentially up
• 55:51
  Speaker 15: to ten billion to be an accurate range for what
• 55:53
  Speaker 15: the fee might end up being.
• 55:56
  Speaker 12: The only discussion in the room was understanding the math
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: around dilution in terms of projections and what's the direct
• 56:06
  Speaker 12: reduction in existing revenues to teams if we were to
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: expand beginning in twenty eight twenty nine. We did not
• 56:12
  Speaker 12: discuss franchise value per se in these meetings. Of course,
• 56:18
  Speaker 12: certainly with our bankers, we have a sense of where
• 56:21
  Speaker 12: we think that value exists, but at the end of
• 56:23
  Speaker 12: the day, the marketplace will determine.
• 56:25
  Speaker 16: That the presumption has been you guys are going down
• 56:28
  Speaker 16: this road with expansion, you know, work with pgat making
• 56:32
  Speaker 16: this public that expansion will happen. Is there a chance
• 56:37
  Speaker 16: that there is no expansion and why would that occur?
• 56:42
  Speaker 12: So there's absolutely a chance expansion may not happen, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 12: that's why we were careful to say exploring the process.
• 56:49
  Speaker 12: And it's also possible that we could expand to one
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: market and not two to two or zero markets. That's
• 56:58
  Speaker 12: sort of what's on the table right now. As to
• 57:01
  Speaker 12: why it might not happen at least standing here today,
• 57:04
  Speaker 12: there's nothing that I see in the relatively short term
• 57:08
  Speaker 12: future of this league would that that would indicate in
• 57:11
  Speaker 12: any way that there won't be enormous interest in those
• 57:13
  Speaker 12: markets and that the board will continue to support moving forward.
• 57:17
  Speaker 12: I should say, at the right time, it will require
• 57:19
  Speaker 12: three quarters of the owners supporting it, but we wouldn't
• 57:22
  Speaker 12: be moving into this step, and in fairness to parties
• 57:24
  Speaker 12: that are interested, was one of the reasons why we
• 57:27
  Speaker 12: wanted to make this formal announcement, because wherever those values land,
• 57:31
  Speaker 12: it's enormous undertaking. It's generally not just a single owner.
• 57:36
  Speaker 12: It's a it's a it's a group. It requires financing,
• 57:39
  Speaker 12: it requires arena planning, et cetera. So where the uncertainty
• 57:44
  Speaker 12: to me lies is in issues outside of the league.
• 57:48
  Speaker 12: That there's enormous instability in the world at the moment,
• 57:54
  Speaker 12: and we may ultimately conclude, for reasons completely out of
• 57:57
  Speaker 12: our control, that it's not the right time expand that
• 58:00
  Speaker 12: it's something that we should postpone and relook at at
• 58:03
  Speaker 12: some later time. And so that's really what our caveat is.
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: And I'd say, again, responsible earlier question, and not at
• 58:13
  Speaker 12: all because there's concern about it. But I think the
• 58:16
  Speaker 12: league is in such a strong position right now, and
• 58:19
  Speaker 12: there's such enormous belief in the future prospects of this
• 58:23
  Speaker 12: league that for the thirty teams, there was nobody in
• 58:26
  Speaker 12: the room saying, I really want to expand right now
• 58:29
  Speaker 12: because I could really use the money. It's very much
• 58:33
  Speaker 12: a strategic decision for this league, because, as I said,
• 58:36
  Speaker 12: you're selling equity, and part of the issue when you're
• 58:38
  Speaker 12: selling equity is you have to make predictions about future value.
• 58:41
  Speaker 12: And virtually everyone in the room said, I'm a buyer,
• 58:44
  Speaker 12: I'm not a seller. And so the real reason ultimately
• 58:48
  Speaker 12: to expand is if you see a strategic benefit, and
• 58:50
  Speaker 12: that's why we're particularly focused on Seattle and Las Vegas.
• 58:54
  Speaker 12: I see strong strategic reasons for both those markets, even
• 58:59
  Speaker 12: you know the question around from Portland before, I mean,
• 59:02
  Speaker 12: I think the Northwest United States, you know, as as
• 59:05
  Speaker 12: Tom Dunnan comes in and we get you know, a
• 59:08
  Speaker 12: revamped Portland Trailblazers and an an upgraded arena. I love
• 59:12
  Speaker 12: the rivalry that we had historically with Seattle. For this
• 59:16
  Speaker 12: isn't a reason expand, but it makes Evan Washing our schedulers'
• 59:19
  Speaker 12: lives easier if you have a team in Seattle along
• 59:22
  Speaker 12: with Portland, and I think they Las Vegas has very
• 59:25
  Speaker 12: much become, you know, the entertainment capital of the United
• 59:28
  Speaker 12: States and seemingly with an insatiable appetite for for more sports.
• 59:33
  Speaker 12: But again, you know, we'll we'll take a close look there.
• 59:36
  Speaker 12: I mean, you know it, there's been a certain you know,
• 59:40
  Speaker 12: economic factors that even have affected Las Vegas recently. So
• 59:43
  Speaker 12: that's part part of what you have to look at
• 59:45
  Speaker 12: as well over time.
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: All right, there you go that as the Commission of
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: the NBA, Adam Silver, earlier today all the expansion talk
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: and then so we've got a lot to get to today.
• 59:55
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• 59:58
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  Speaker 17: Like soccer, I'm happy if my neighbors are happy about
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 17: the Sonics coming back. I don't watch soccer and I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 17: don't watch NBA basketball, and I'm not that excited about
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 17: the Sonics because I remember when they were here and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 17: how they treated us trying to get a ticket. They
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 17: didn't care, how about blacking out games and stuff. I'm sorry,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 17: but I wasn't sad to see them go, and the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 17: state of the NBA right now, I don't care if
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 17: they come back or not.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 7: I won't watch them.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 14: Ian do you think Collabor will come back or is
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 14: he stuck in Portland?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 18: Hey guys, I was just wondering, is it possible that
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 18: Kevin Collabor could come back and do our play by
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 18: play for the SuperSonics if and when they do come
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 18: back to Seattle.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: Thanks, all right, let's tackle all those real quick. I'll
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: start a collabora and think get the other one. The
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: other one really intrigues me.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: That's a casey question. He's in Portland. I know this.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: He refused to go to Oklahoma City with the Thunder
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: and he I know. I did speak to him.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: I saw him last year at an event here and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: and I kind of was busting his chops because it
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: remember the last it was flat June was at the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Emmys and I said, hey, you guys, you know hey,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: because we thought.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: The NBA was going to have an announcement that summer.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: It didn't. I said, I can't wait ta get you
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: back to I don't know.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 6: Man, I don't know.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: I'm getting old, I'm getting along on the tooth.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's any chance in the world that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: you could put an NBA team on television it's called
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: the Seattle SuperSonics after twenty years of being gone, and
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: not have Clevin Clabra on the mic.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: That's just my opinion.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: I can't speak for him, but I just it's the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: only right thing to do is to have Casey on there,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: and then we would have the two best TV play
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: by play guys in the NHL and the NBA, and
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: foresel in Casey and we win.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: So I hope he comes back. That's a Kevin decision.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: We'll have him on the shows one of these shows
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: soon enough, and move on the other guy. Listen. I
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: understand the frustration with the league.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: I understand the acrimonious relationship we've had with the NBA.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: It's all eight.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: The one thing I'm gonna take because I don't want
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: to tell people how to think. But let me just
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: take exception with a fact in terms of one thing
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: you said, they didn't want you here.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: This is not the same ownership.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 3: This is not Howard and this is not Clayton Bennett,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: and this is not David Stern. So my advice to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: anybody asking, and you're not, but I'm gonna give it
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: to you anyway. If I can get over it, you can.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: We need to move on. We need to move on.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: But I'm looking at texts and people haven't moved on.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: Let's get to come more talkbacks.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 18: I need me some Kevin Collaboro Sonics, do you come
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 18: back to town? I gotta hear me some get on
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 18: up from the downstroke.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: Chicken in the farmyard.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 15: Baby, let's go.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: There's people want Casey Beck. Let's keep going. Fire away.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 19: As somebody who worked for the Sonics for a number
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 19: of years and made a lot of friends, and I
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 19: was devastated when they left, and I was hYP for
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 19: all the different false starts that they would return. I'm
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: looking forward to it, but I'd be lying if I
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 19: didn't say I wasn't a little tuckered out at all,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 19: So I'll save it. I'll save my excitement for when
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 19: it's really announced and for the tip tip off. But
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 19: cu're's thing twenty years, David Stern said, twenty years. It
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 19: almost feels like the NBA was locked onto that.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: I think there. That's not lost on anybody. Yeah, we all,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: it's it's think we said that. For a while, we
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: thought twenty twenty eight would be the date, and lo
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: and behold, twenty twenty eight seems to be the date.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: All right, keep going.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 20: Just very cool to hear David Lock on the radio
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 20: again on kJ R. I hope he gets paid for
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 20: the locked on sports, Locked on this, locked on that
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 20: you said across the media landscape, locked on David Lock Sports,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 20: It is pretty good marketing.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: He owns a company, so he does, he does. Okay,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: he's actually Andrew's.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Boss when he thinks about it.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Crawford's of one of their bosses.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: Actually he's he's in sure I need to talk. I
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: kind of call him back. Crawford, Corbin andres All fall
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: under that.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: I don't think he knows what he got himself into.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: How many do you have a far away Hi.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 9: I was one of those people that said I'm not
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 9: going to get excited until I see a team on
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 9: the court, and I must admit.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 7: I was wrong. At nine o'clock when I.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 20: Heard the message that they'd approved expansion in Seattle and dagas,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 20: a rush of emotions had been suppressed from anger and hurt.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: Came bursting out with all the memories and when we
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: had a team and the good times. I'm so jacked.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Let's go Sonic. All right, there you go. That's those
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: are talk back.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: I do have a couple more that just came in.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: Are they playable? Have we have? We listened to them?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: Luckily we have.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: I don't have a dumb button in front of me,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: and I just took the SEC test. I don't want
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: to get fined.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: I haven't taken mine yet, so it's okay, I'll take
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: the fall.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: Want to talk about the Sonic How I'm the good
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 8: luck come of the North but god of Seattle sports.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Jay?
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, you jake some Mariners when they were up
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: to oh you called Sam Darnold a ginger gino and
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: didn't trust him to go anywhere.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: So that's completely inaccurate.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: I only talk about good things when they.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: Happen, and then I take the credit later.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: Can we He's sick still right, like like the voice
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: is still gone.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: Real MJ, not fake MJ.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, he's Why.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: Don't we just have Why don't we just have fake
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: MJ do a couple shows?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: Not a bad idea? His number is connected to as
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 4: I can.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, can you just give it to Purple Sheet
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: and tell MJ feels better? We'll just have MJ part
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: two do shows for.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: A while, right, Yeah, just do that?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, don't get Should I get the text messages
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: for Yeah?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: We have to do that, all right?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm so ample.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: I need lighter fluid, a date of when they're coming back,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: to be jacked and fully excited that they're actually coming back.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: That's from the five on nine twenty twenty eight. I
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: know it's not official, but it's twenty twenty eight. That
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: should that help you? As a lifelong super Sonics fan,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: says a five on nine, I'm excited, but numbers slow
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: to waking up too, but none and slow to waking
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: up to it.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Let's see, born and raised.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: In Bothels is the five nine in March NBA game
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: Larry Bird and the Celtics take on the Sonics double
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: overtime and overtime in the Kingdom.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: I was seven years old.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, four five today means nothing for exploration only Silver said,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: couldn't be two markets, one market, zero markets until we
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: actually have a team.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: This means nothing.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna emphasize this once again. This is not a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: nothing burger.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: This is this is you wouldn't be doing this if
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: it was.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: This is not a nothing burger, period, end of story.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: I'm so stoked about today as a two o six.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: I cried as soon as Chuck told us this morning.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: I can't wait. Yeah, Chuck and Bucking those guys broken
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: it like it's what time was that like seven to fifteen.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: In the morning, Yeah, it was before eight.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: Four two. I honestly can't celebrate till they give us
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: a team officially.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: That's fair. I think one of you know that reflects
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: on one of the voice texts as well, you know,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: being tuckered out from the false starts.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: So Michael says, so possibility, no expansion happens, so we
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: may get all this hype going, and so'll be denied.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: I have such trust issues with the NBA.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: I can't get excited yet, not till I see the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: new owners holding a Sonics jersey with a twenty eight
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: on it.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: I get this man two of six.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not in the celebrating till it's official camp. But
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: even me, the staunchiest of all skeptics regarding the NBA,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: after we meet today feels different in an irreversible ways.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: As chip.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 4: I like this one from the four two to five.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: My daughter is eleven. She just got into hoops, just
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: made an AAU team. Everything is Caitlin Clark and Michael Jordan.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: I was her age when the Sonics went to the
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: finals against the Bulls. Now I can share with her
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: why I love hoops growing up and at her age.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 6: I like that.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: I think sharing sports is what makes sports special.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: I one hundred percent agree. I one thousand percent agreed.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: Uh did you do? Let's see what else we got here.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: Let's go from the two five to three. It's nice
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: to see the powers that beef finally pulled their heads
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: out of their collective bleeps and finally did the right
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: thing and gave Seattle back our Sonics. And we're not
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: there yet, but we're on our way.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna just we have a lot of techs.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm gonna sum it up with this, okay, because
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's I don't I'm not in the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: mood to read negativity today, but I respect people's opinions,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: and so if you need to take the time, trust me,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say we're at maybe it's fifty to fifty,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: maybe it's even sixty forty sixty forty fifty five forty
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: five of people that are either not excited or still
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: so mad at the NBA they can't get past it.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: You know, I think maybe we are more hyped than
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: a lot of people from our listener standpoint. And it's
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: been the way Jess, You've been watching you and Ander's
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: been watching these text for a while. Yeah, it is
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: a very very tepid response, lukewarm at best to this
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: news that we're getting from fans.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: Sometimes we also hear from a vocal minority and not
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: the majority. I get that, but I'm I'm still I
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: thought today would be the day we'd see a lot
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: more positivity on the text line than we are right now,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: and took on my Dodge text line.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: July will be different.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: I think there will still be those however, in July
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: that are like whatever, Man, the NBA is dead to me.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: But I understand why people are little lukewarm today. I yeah,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: I think that's a great way to put it. You
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: know who's not lukewarm?
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 21: Never, he's with us next.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: All right, we're back, Marie digital fastest because people asking
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: about ownership. Okay, this comes from the one roof sports entertainment. David, Yes, Yes,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: Seattle has long been ready.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: For this moment. God, that's true. Since two thousand and eight.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: Over the last decade, one roof Sports Entertainment has built
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: Climate pledger in into an incredible home for live sports,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: and as NBA ready, we have launched the Seattle Cracking
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: and demonstrated our deep commitment to our community and the fans.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: We are ready to work with the commissioner in the
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: league after their direction to explore bringing the NBA back
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: to Seattle. We share the excitement of the city's passionate
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: fans and let's go. If we are successful, our focus
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: will be on ensuring the long term sustainable success of
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: an NBA team in Seattle. Basically, they're going after the team.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: We'll see if there's other bidders. That's right, A gentleman
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: by the name of Todd Todd l Todd LWICKI, one
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: roof Sports and Entertainment CEO, is going to join you
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: at three o'clock today.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 6: I love it. Let's go.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: I mention I mentioned this to to Jess and I
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: think even you esterday crosstalk in Since two thousand and
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: when did liwiki got back here?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: He twenty eighteen.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 15: Right, ninety nineteen, correct, right when they were talking about
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 15: launching the crack, and in twenty twenty and then covid.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: Hit so twenty eighteen.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: How many interviews do you think he's done that He
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: hasn't been asked about the NBA.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 15: Oh, I think every single one, to be honest with you,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 15: I just want to know when they open up the
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 15: ticket deposits for the Crack for the I Sonics and
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 15: they get forty eight thousand, well they hang a forty
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 15: eight from the rafters alongside the thirty two.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: Forty eight thousand depositors.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: Don't mindersings don't even have to do that. What ticket
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: deposit thing? I mean to prove anything we do do
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: it for they'll sell your tickets. Yeah, they'll sell your tickets.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 15: Well, you know it's funny because I was looking at
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 15: it's funny. I brought that up just randomly. I was
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 15: watching the movie F one the other day with Brad Pitt,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 15: and so I went online because I'm just curious, Hey, like,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 15: what would tickets cost to go to like Vegas.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 6: Or Monaco or whatever F one event?
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 15: Right, so you go to the F one website and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 15: you put a deposit down on tickets?
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, then how much is the ticket? They don't
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: tell you that.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: It iss right, what's the deposit?
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 6: It's like five hundred bucks.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 15: Honestly, it was like five hundred bucks for hospitality, a
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 15: hundred bucks for general mission whatever.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: But I'm giving you one hundred dollars.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 15: Can you then let me know when the tickets come
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 15: up for sale, how much will they cost? Well, we're
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 15: not ready to say that yet. Is it's non refuned
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 15: of God and those bast everyone? So who knows. Maybe
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 15: liwiki does the same thing. Give us your money. How
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 15: much will the seats bee? We don't know, ask.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: Him that, I say it just like that.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 15: Oh god, yeah, well we're excited to have him on. Look,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 15: this is a big day. Obviously, dude. I mean, it's
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 15: not surprising that the news came down the way it
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 15: did today. I think a lot of us were expecting
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 15: the news to come down the way it did today.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: But it's just another step in the process.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 15: And it feels like, as we talked him, the biggest
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 15: one since two thousand and eight, if not since twenty
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 15: eleven when Chris Hansen tried to buy the Kings from
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 15: the maloof Brothers.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 6: Uh, it's happening, and I I look, I get it.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 15: Disaster can happen, right the stock market could crash, everybody
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 15: loses their money, blah blah blah, you know, outside of
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 15: something like that. And I love the way Adam Silver
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 15: you know phrase that today. You know the uncertainty of
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 15: the world. You know, whatever time we get, if we
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 15: get attacked in this country and things go to hell
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 15: in a handbucket or hand basket, then maybe that could
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 15: be the case.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 15: But they're not doing this unless they know that the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 15: bids they're looking for are out there. They're not putting
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 15: the effort for it unless they know the bids are
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 15: out there.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: There's there's things about this whole process that are kind
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: of laughable. Right when when he makes it sound like
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: we haven't had conversations with anybody yet, we're just opening
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: up the bidding.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just don't believe that. I don't either, do you.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I know it's not true, and so does the
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: guy you're talking to at the top of the hour.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: But because they've had conversation, I mean, well, and they've
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: talked to Bill Foley in Vegas, right, the owner of
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: the Knights in the in the arena, Right, that's the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: one that that's the wildcard to me. And I asked
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: David Alders that earlier, like, that's that's kind of the wildcard,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: is would they go an odd number?
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: That's the wildcard because we're ready.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, now we officially have a group that stepping forward
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: to make to be part of the bidding process.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Two, we have the building Vegas. The building isn't what
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: they want right now. I got too many events and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: and all that.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 15: So what they play in the sphere, how's that sound?
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 15: Can you imagine what they guys are vomiting over the floor?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, would they play in a like in
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: Caesars or in those places for a while.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 15: They got t mobile arena, they've got other arena mobile
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 15: yea temporary facilities where they could play down there. But
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 15: you're right that you know, this is everything you need,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 15: everything's already done. This is totally different than it was. God,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 15: what was it now? Was it twenty twelve we're talking
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 15: about So we're talking four team fifteen years ago when
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 15: nothing was ready. There was nothing ready back in there. Well,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 15: and that's when you talk about Chris Hansen like like
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 15: they were literally talking about temporarily playing their games at
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 15: Key Arena. Yeah, before they got the arena built, right,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 15: And that's I mean, and Key Arena was still always
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 15: the issue. And then now it's no longer an issue
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 15: with climbing plage, that's right.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 6: I was.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: I mentioned this earlier, the issue they got. Now we
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: had to move. There's a bunch of you know that
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: that NBA locker room is used for storage. Yeah, we
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: have a URTV stuff in there. Yeah, well but it's there,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: it's I walked by it every day.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 15: NBA locker room. It's ready to go. You know that
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 15: that arena. You know I told this to Chuck this morning,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 15: and you know this as well. Yeah, you know, no
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 15: disrespect to any other franchise or any other event.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 6: But that arena was built for one.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 15: Thing, and that's for the NBA, because the NBA is
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 15: the top of the mountain. The NBA is what needs
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 15: the most space. The NBA is what needs the locker rooms.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 15: The NBA is what needs the loading docks. And everything
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 15: was done with the NBA in mind, and everybody else
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 15: can come in behind them, right, Like I mean, you've
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 15: been down to the loading dock area. I mean, for
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 15: those that don't know, the old Key Arena loading dock
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 15: had spaces for I think two trucks.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: This thing is gigantic. I mean, honestly, it's it's.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 15: Unbelievable, like you could build an entire apartment complex down there.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 6: Well, it's so big.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: When people people talk about the Key Arena like, well
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: you know the reason was this the reason kierna. You
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: could get one semi in at a time, right, you
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: could barely get a bus in there to put teams
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: in there. Yes, and none of those problems existed anymore.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: They built this thing the right way. They didn't mess around,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: and and so we're past all that.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: They had foresight when they built it.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 15: That's the word that I use a lot, because I
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 15: remember going to the finals in ninety six when we
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 15: played Chicago.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: Were you there by the way? Did you go to
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  Speaker 6: the finals and tri Cities?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I'm a way to Salt Lake?
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  Speaker 6: Gotcha? Well, we we all went to Wavedago.
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  Speaker 2: I waved it.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, all of us went to Chicago. The Tom Lee
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  Speaker 15: sent the entire radio station. I think there was like
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  Speaker 15: twenty of us, which is amazing. And I remember walking
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  Speaker 15: into the United Center thinking, God, this place looks nothing
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  Speaker 15: like Ky Arena. No, I mean it's not even even
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  Speaker 15: the Rose Garden. When they built it looked way better
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  Speaker 15: than our arena. Did This place looks like it's gonna
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  Speaker 15: stand the test of time. This place looks like you
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  Speaker 15: could open it in five years from now and it
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  Speaker 15: would still be good to go.
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  Speaker 3: We have we have people coming in from all the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: NHL teams every week and and and every game, and
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  Speaker 3: to a person they have said best building in the league.
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  Speaker 3: And they go to NBA buildings obviously as well they
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  Speaker 3: say it's not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, they spared no expense. It's a perfect building. When
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  Speaker 3: I went to the NCAA tournament games last year, as
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  Speaker 3: the first game, I you you won't go to Starbucks?
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  Speaker 2: I will not go to an NBA exhibition game.
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  Speaker 6: Why not?
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  Speaker 2: It has to have Sonics.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not I'm not doing it, got it, because
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  Speaker 3: you know what, we're better than that, right. But I
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  Speaker 3: went to the We're an NBA city, We're not an exhibit.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, play and spoke.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't go to the games the Okay, no, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want, I don't watch. I'm not watching an NBA
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  Speaker 3: preseason game in an NBA city. You go play that
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  Speaker 3: game in Tri City, right. But my point is this.
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  Speaker 3: I went to the tournament last year, the NCAA tournament.
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  Speaker 3: I was I was expecting to be good for basketball.
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  Speaker 6: It's great for basketball.
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  Speaker 2: It's beyond good. Now.
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  Speaker 15: I went to the when Durant came in were Golden
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  Speaker 15: State a couple of years ago, and he was wearing
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 15: the Sonic jersey.
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  Speaker 2: I was the Starbucks that day.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know why you do that, man, There's plenty
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  Speaker 15: of other options, honestly, anyway, plenty of other options.
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  Speaker 2: You went just on Durant.
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  Speaker 6: That was fun, had a good time. But like I said,
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  Speaker 6: it's a freaking exhibition game.
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  Speaker 15: I mean, I've been to one NBA game since the
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  Speaker 15: actually two NBA games since the Sonics left one of them.
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  Speaker 6: Dick and I went to a Rockets.
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  Speaker 15: Game in Houston for the Final four, maybe in the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 15: Super Bowl, but I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 6: We were there for some event and went.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, no, what, I like, I've been to three I've
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  Speaker 15: been to a Blazer game when b Roy was down there.
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  Speaker 15: It was on like a Jewish night or whatever sort
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  Speaker 15: of God. They had a bunch of rabbis like hanging out, like,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 15: you know, hats and stuff. It's really actually kind of fun. Anyway,
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  Speaker 15: so we did.
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  Speaker 6: We did that.
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  Speaker 15: We went to Houston for a game, and then Dick
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  Speaker 15: and I went to a Pacers game in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 6: While we're out there for the Final Four.
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  Speaker 15: But the last basketball pro basketball game here outside of
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 15: that Durant game was the last game against the Mavericks
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  Speaker 15: in two thousand and eight saves with Durant egging the
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  Speaker 15: crowd on on that you know, fatass owner sitting in
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  Speaker 15: his sweet because he was too scared to sit courtside.
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  Speaker 2: You are remember that game?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I do?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, four minutes away from today.
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  Speaker 6: Wiki coming up, we gotta go. Let's do it zip
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  Speaker 6: For the.
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  Speaker 6: This is paddle Day, saying so long everyone