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NBA TELLS CITY OF DENVER THAT MCNICHOLS NOT UP TO STANDARDS

          The NBA has informed the city of Denver that McNichols
     Sports Arena no longer meets current NBA standards,
     according to Mike Monroe in this morning's DENVER POST. 
     This development provides the Nuggets with "ammunition they
     may need to bolt the city" should team owner Ascent
     Entertainment opt to build its proposed Pepsi Center outside
     Denver.  In a letter to City Attorney Dan Muse, NBA Deputy
     Commissioner Russ Granik cited 79 different aspects of the
     arena that fail to meet NBA standards, including court
     lighting to the size of team locker rooms to in-arena
     parking facilities for TV production trucks.  Monroe quotes
     an NBA source on as saying, "We usually try to work quietly
     ... to help our teams resolve conflicts like this" (DENVER
     POST, 12/10). Ascent made a counter-proposal to the city of
     Denver on a new arena, according to Arthur Hodges of the
     DENVER POST.  While no details were disclosed, Hodges called
     it "the first glimmer of hope in months," after arena talks
     "all but broke down" this summer over tax concessions that
     Ascent wanted at the new venue (DENVER POST, 12/10).

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