
jeremy repanich via vice.com
No.
Not even any real announcements about a pending sale.
What we’d need to see, in approximate order:
- An official announcement of a pending sale, made by both the buyers and the sellers.
- Approval of the team sale by NBA Commissioner David Stern, then by the league’s Board of Governors, then by a majority of the other 29 team owners.
- Separate league approval of a request to move the team to Seattle, by all the above parties. That has to be formally requested by March 1 to take effect this next season.
- An agreement to use KeyArena for home games for at least two seasons.
- And, possibly, the league’s dismissal of any challenges by Sacramento city fathers.
(Environmental and legal approval of a new arena does not have to happen for the team to move; but the league would like to be assured that those are likely.)