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Glen Taylor: NBA won't approve moving the Timberwolves to Seattle

Jon Krawczynski: Glen Taylor appearing with @ChadHartmanShow saying more emphatically what I wrote yesterday about the prospects of the Timberwolves relocating if/when Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez take over: “The NBA will not approve the Timberwolves moving from here to Seattle.” Full exchange:

Glen Taylor appearing with @ChadHartmanShow saying more emphatically what I wrote yesterday about the prospects of the Timberwolves relocating if/when Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez take over:
“The NBA will not approve the Timberwolves moving from here to Seattle.”

Full exchange: pic.twitter.com/dJEahFRfBh

— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) April 13, 2021

3 days ago – via Twitter JonKrawczynski

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Top Rumors, Alex Rodriguez, Glen Taylor, Marc Lore, Owners, Seattle, Minnesota Timberwolves

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Steve Ballmer: Seattle at top of the list in case of expansion

When it came to the topic of Seattle, Mr. Ballmer seemed to have some knowledge but played it coy. “I gotta sleep on that,” Ballmer said. “I know nothing, I see nothing. The commissioner talked about the fact that it’s an open consideration at some point to do expansion. If an expansion were to happen Seattle would be up at the top of the list. I certainly haven’t participated in any in-depth discussions at this point. I can’t tell you the timing, but I read the commissioner’s remarks at the same time the rest of you did.”

2 months ago – via Farbod Esnaashari @ Sports Illustrated

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Top Rumors, Owners, Seattle, Steve Ballmer, Los Angeles Clippers

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“I’d love for Seattle to have a basketball team again,” Ballmer said. “It isn’t going to be the Clippers. Clippers are the LA Clippers, they will stay the LA clippers. I love having the LA Clippers. We’re building a new arena, you can call it a new $2 billion home for the Clippers in Los Angeles. I gotta say owning a team or having a team in LA is a competitive advantage. All things being equal, guys love being in LA. It’s a great place to be.”

2 months ago – via Farbod Esnaashari @ Sports Illustrated

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Owners, Seattle, Steve Ballmer, Los Angeles Clippers

Adam Silver opening the door to a Seattle's expansion team

Evan Schreiber: #NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: “It’s inevitable that we’ll expand… There is a rebuilt Key Arena… There’s no doubt there’s enormous support [in #Seattle] so at the right time, the team owners will turn back to that issue.”

4 months ago – via Twitter

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Top Rumors, Adam Silver, Seattle

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Mark Cuban: “OK, maybe you can make that argument that it is. But it always comes down to, is there some incremental value? Like, having somebody in Vegas, having a team in Seattle, as an example. Will we increase the pie big enough to more than compensate the money that we’re giving them? “ … I’m not saying it’s not possible. I kind of like the idea at a lot of levels, because I think Seattle would add incremental value in different ways.”

4 months ago – via Seattle Times

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Las Vegas, Mark Cuban, Owners, Seattle, Dallas Mavericks

“Two years ago, I asked the league about expansion,” Bridgeman said. “They responded that they were not looking at expansion, but if they would, the top two cities would be Seattle and Mexico City. I have not heard anything since then.”

6 months ago – via Tim Sullivan @ Louisville Courier-Journal

Junior Bridgeman, Louisville, Mexico City, Seattle, Uncategorized

Junior Bridgeman, Louisville, Mexico City, Seattle

Storyline: NBA Expansion

Before Milwaukee officials and the Bucks struck a funding agreement to build the arena, the NBA threatened to buy the franchise and sell it to one of two ownership groups, one in Las Vegas and the other Seattle, citing the aging BMO Harris Bradley Center where the Bucks played between 1988 and 2018. “I’m the co-owner of the Bucks and we love being in Milwaukee,” Wes Edens said. “If we had been forced to move the team, which we had not, Las Vegas was definitely one of the places that was on the list that we would have seriously considered.”

7 months ago – via Mick Akers @ Las Vegas Review Journal

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