Seattle working to bring NBA back

? The city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town? possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a satisfactory deal for a new arena, newly released documents show. ? The city turned over the documents to The Seattle Times on Friday under a public records request (http://is.gd/PyQ06N ). The documents included the agenda for a meeting between the parties on Dec. 13, with topics including ?Review of Basic Deal Structure,? ?City Debt Capacity? and ?Financing Issues.? A Seattle native who now lives in San Francisco, 44-year-old hedge-fund manager Christopher Hansen, approached the city about his desire to buy an NBA team and build an arena south of Safeco Field, the documents show. Hansen told city officials an arena could be built with minimal impact on taxpayers. ?I really appreciate it and look forward to making this happen in Seattle. I genuinely mean that and am confident that with a little effort and creativity we can find a solution that meets our needs and the City?s/State?s desire to get a team back to Seattle without a large public outlay,? Hansen wrote in a June 16 email to Julie McCoy, chief of staff to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, and Ethan Raup, the mayor?s director of policy and operations. Seattle hasn?t had an NBA team since 2008, when owner Clay Bennett moved the Sonics to Oklahoma City and renamed them the Thunder. The documents don?t mention how Seattle would obtain a team, but the Times reported that they show the city has been following developments in Sacramento, which is under a March 1 deadline to come up with a proposal to build an arena for the Kings. ?

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