The fate of the Sacramento Kings is still up in the air, but investor Chris Hansen says he's taking the first steps to eventually sell tickets for the NBA team in anticipation of a move to Seattle.

Chris Hansen has scooped up another pricey property in Seattle’s Sodo as he pursues his dream of building an arena to bring back the Sonics. His latest move is the $25 million purchase of a six ...

We have Chris Hansen who is prepared to really make a serious investment. When a billionaire comes to your town and says, ‘I want to invest in getting the Sonics back’ you need to sit down and ...

Hansen has earned the emotional attachment he’s engendered with his efforts to bring back the Sonics. But barring an unforeseen change, the city is going to throw its support to one of two ...

If the Sonics return to Seattle this fall, the team will make KeyArena its temporary home, and investor Chris Hansen wants to run the operation there. City councilmembers were briefed Monday on ...

Best "Makeup": Proposed new Sonics arena. For a while, it looked like Seattle was about to get an NBA team back with Chris Hansen's attempted purchase and relocation of the Sacramento Kings to a ...

Entrepreneur Chris Hansen doesn’t seem to be giving up his lengthy drive to bring the Sonics back to Seattle. Hansen spent $32 million to buy two Sodo parcels that total 4.88 acres just south of ...

Larry Stone | With private financing, could this be a deal? You have to assume that Chris Hansen’s group has gone through back-channel means to gauge the possibility of an NBA expansion team, too.

Sacramento must also have an arena plan in place that is seen as a prerequisite to staying in this situation. Hansen has already finalized plans for a Seattle arena that would open in 2015, but ...

But Chris Hansen says it's just not true. Sonics without Subsidies says its investigation into a Memorandum of Understanding between Seattle, King County, and a group of arena investors found ...

Chris Hansen might be a billionaire, but he’ll still have to start a tab. “I know he’ll be good for it, but we’ll get a credit card up front,” said Mick McHugh, the proprietor of F.X ...

Before this is over, it seems Chris Hansen is going to buy something from the NBA. It might have to be a hologram of a team. It might have to be a lifetime supply of NBA socks for every Sonics fan ...