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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Chris Hansen, Steve Ballmer and others this afternoon told an NBA committee how great it'd be to bring a team here. Trouble is, Sacramento had a group making their own pitch. It'll be spun all sorts of ways, particularly by the elected officials in the delegations,</p></h2>
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            <p>Chris Hansen, Steve Ballmer and others this afternoon told an NBA committee how great it'd be to bring a team here. Trouble is, Sacramento had a group making their own pitch. It'll be spun all sorts of ways, particularly by the elected officials in the delegations, but NBA.com blogger Scott Howard-Cooper <a href="http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2013/04/03/seattle-sacramento-step-into-the-ring/?ls=iref:nbahpts&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">has a nice analysis</a>. His bottom line: The proposals are so close that we should expect two more weeks of tension before a final decision. Even Seattle's own Art Thiel says Sacramento did a fantastic job in its post-pitch press conference.Things got even tighter when NBA commissioner David Stern told media that the league owners may need to continue studying the proposals even beyond the expected April 19th decision point. Thiel is preparing a Crosscut column on the NBA discussions. So how long does the tension drag on? Here's something to keep up the morale of would-be Sonics fans while they wait.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-embed-card"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mRnvCZKkpHQ" width="560"></iframe></figure>
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Chris Hansen, Steve Ballmer and others this afternoon told an NBA committee how great it'd be to bring a team here. Trouble is, Sacramento had a group making their own pitch. It'll be spun all sorts of ways, particularly by the elected officials in the delegations, but NBA.com blogger Scott Howard-Cooper has a nice analysis. His bottom line: The proposals are so close that we should expect two more weeks of tension before a final decision. Even Seattle's own Art Thiel says Sacramento did a fantastic job in its post-pitch press conference.Things got even tighter when NBA commissioner David Stern told media that the league owners may need to continue studying the proposals even beyond the expected April 19th decision point. Thiel is preparing a Crosscut column on the NBA discussions. So how long does the tension drag on? Here's something to keep up the morale of would-be Sonics fans while they wait.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi