So I'm quite glad that a man smarter than I — NBA.com's Scott Howard-Cooper — made those links. Scoop (a former Bee reporter) has seemed pretty convinced that Seattle would finish the job over the last couple of months. Things have changed. Scoop says they might have changed more than we know.

When KJ and Scoop say it, it doesn't sound so crazy, does it? Also note that Aaron Bruski pointed out a Reuters story in which Future Commissioner Adam Silver again mentioned the importance of China, India and Africa in the league's future, and in which it was reported that David Stern is … going to India next month. It'd be pretty dope to be able to tell the media and fans there that his Board of Governors just approved the sale of the Sacramento Kings to a group led by Indian entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé, right?

Thanks be to Rob336 for the FanShot.