Tech Worlds":1gd7dd55 said:
Let's put it this way.... Ballmer is part of the group trying to get a team in Seattle. If HE is running off to purchase a team in another city it basically means nothing is coming our way for the foreseeable future and he frankly didn't feel up to waiting around for something that isn't coming anytime soon.
That's why this is the death blow.
There is no team coming here anytime in the next few years or it would be reasonable to figure Ballmer would have waited.
Eh I don't really buy that. No one thought the Clippers would be available for sale in the Summer of 2014. The opportunity to own a team in Los Angeles does not come around very often.. you notice Ballmer jumped at this opportunity and not others. If all he wanted was to own a team, then he would have been in on the Bucks deal too..
I don't think this changes Seattle getting a team one way or the other. I also don't think Ballmer's group will ultimately buy the team either because of his ties to Seattle and because the league is wary of having another Clay Bennett thing unfold.