While NBA officials are staying tight-lipped about if and when a men's basketball team might return to Seattle, Mayor Bruce Harrell predicted this week that it will happen — and in a 'much shorter window' than five years.
"The market is set perfectly for us," Harrell said at a panel event I moderated earlier this week.
Harrell said he thinks Seattle is positioned "better than any other city in this country" to gain an NBA team, because "we have both the financing here" and a "great stadium." "If it can be done here, it's going to be done," Harrell said. "And we're not talking about, like, five years from now, we're talking a much, much shorter window."
He said he's spoken to people in ownership groups, and bases his optimism on the opinions of people "in the know."
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