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NBA Commissioner David Stern Plans To Update Owners On Kings, Hornets Situations

NBA Commissioner David Stern in a meeting next week “plans to update owners about the status of franchises in New Orleans and Sacramento, as well as expectations that deputy commissioner Adam Silver will succeed him,” according to Brian Smith of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE. Stern is “more hopeful than confident the Kings will remain in Sacramento, acknowledging his certainty had slightly dimmed since a tentative agreement was reached during All-Star weekend in late February.” Stern hopes to announce next week that a deal to keep the Hornets in New Orleans “is either done or on the verge of being completed.” Stern said, “(An agreement) that will have a very favorable lease, important capital improvements, intense tax benefits and a new TV deal, to boot, that allows the team to be neither a revenue-sharing recipient nor a revenue-sharing payer.” After officially vouching for Silver during All-Star weekend to suceed him, Stern yesterday said that he is “running the league on a year-by-year basis.” Stern: "I’m going to tell (the owners) that I’ll give ’em a yearly report. I’ll give them this year’s report, then I’ll tell that I’ll give them a report next year as well” (SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, 4/5). In New Orleans, John Reid cites an NBA source as saying that there is “a third ownership group amongst the [finalists] to secure” the Hornets. During his annual state of the league address during All-Star weekend, Stern “declined to confirm or identify" if the group led by L.A businessman Raj Bhathal "had emerged as the top candidate to purchase the Hornets” (New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE, 4/5).

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On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

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SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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