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Tim Booth

Tim Booth

Sports reporter at The Seattle Times covering the Kraken and the NBA's return to Seattle, who appeared on Clippers Talk OT discussing Adam Silver's comments at the NBA Board of Governors meeting.

Oct 14, 2026

23:46
Is it looking like he did another stops? What would it be?
23:51
I think I wrote about this weekend.
23:53
We're seeing a little bit of the Sam that we saw the second half of last year.
23:57
He played really well.
24:00
There was a few turnovers in there, but he played really well the first half of last year.
24:03
And then defenses started to adjust, and they started to come up with schemes and coverages that made him pause and think and maybe hold the ball for an extra second or maybe think that there was a window open, and really it wasn't.
24:16
So, and then during the playoffs, he played tremendous.

7 MINS LATER

31:26
But when you look back on it and sort of the aftermath that occurred last How do you, what lens do you view that trade through today?
2:35
scare the NBA away from saying, hey, maybe let's just do this Vegas team first and put Seattle on the back burner for a second? Is that something that Seattle fans and the Holloway group should be worried
2:44
about? It's a little bit of an interesting time because Seattle, The whole time this was happening, there was this hope by the NBA that there would become a bidding competition in both cities.
3:00
And for a lot of reasons, it just never developed in Seattle.
3:04
Vegas has been the one to generate these multiple groups, all interested in trying to get the franchise there.
3:12
And it's helped to drive up the price to where we're seeing these... pretty astronomical numbers floated out there for what the final total is going to be.
3:21
There's a little bit of context around that in that number that got floated yesterday of 12 to 13 billion includes a budget for the need to build an arena.
3:34
And I think I got lost a little bit yesterday in the conversation and the context around the story coming out and seeing what that number was.

12 MINS LATER

16:08
Do you think that moving on from these coaching staff is going to be enough to produce different results next season?

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