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To me what matters most is how it goes down. With Seattle Clay Bennett bought the team with promises that he'd do everything in his power to keep the team here and then proceeded to tell whopper after whopper (and get sued over it - still a shame that they didn't let the judge make his decision). Bennett was buddy buddy with David Stern (who is very worthy of disdain) and used his influence to lie and cheat his way to a team.
Hansen comes out and says I want a team and I want to move it to Seattle. He buys the property for the building, offers up a sweetheart of a deal to the city, and then proceeds to offer $200 million more than the estimated worth of the franchise in Sacramento to move it? Can't hate that. Just can't.
Honesty, it's an amazingly rare commodity these days. Gotta respect it.
- Ben.