NBA owners expected to vote on League Expansion to two more teams this summer

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I think the other spot comes down to Memphis or us.

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Where is this pedophile support shite come from? It’s like you dumb fricks don’t know how to read what really happened and go off of misinformation. She never paid for a settlement and helped the archdiocese release the list of names. She donates to the church, yes. But she also donated to the communities and schools around the state. It’s crazy how you dumbasses talk shite about her. Gayle Benson is an amazing lady but the people around her has failed her honestly. She’s building a new arena, a health complex and trying. It’s Dennis Lauscha that everyone should dislike. You will never hear Gayle is too cheap and won’t spend compared to other owners . She’s admitted to pay the luxury tax if we were contenders also. Which we aren’t. She’s too kind for her own good.

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The records, which the Saints and church had long sought to keep out of public view, reveal team executives played a more extensive role than previously known in a public relations campaign to mitigate fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis. The emails shed new light on the Saints' foray into a fraught topic far from the gridiron, a behind-the-scenes effort driven by the team's devoutly Catholic owner who has long enjoyed a close relationship with the city's embattled archbishop.

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Among the key moments, as revealed in the Saints' own emails: • Saints executives were so involved in the church's damage control that a team spokesman briefed his boss on a 2018 call with the city's top prosecutor hours before the church released a list of clergymen accused of abuse. The call, the spokesman said, "allowed us to take certain people off" the list. • Team officials were among the first people outside the church to view that list, a carefully curated, yet undercounted roster of suspected pedophiles. The disclosure of those names invited civil claims against the church and drew attention from federal and state law enforcement. • The team's president, Dennis Lauscha, drafted more than a dozen questions that Archbishop Gregory Aymond should be prepared to answer as he faced reporters. • The Saints' senior vice president of communications, Greg Bensel, provided fly-on-the-wall updates to Lauscha about local media interviews, suggesting church and team leaders were all on the same team. "He is doing well," Bensel wrote as the archbishop told reporters the church was committed to addressing the crisis. "That is our message," Bensel added, "that we will not stop here today." The emails obtained by AP sharply undercut assurances the Saints gave fans about the public relations guidance five years ago when they asserted they had provided only "minimal" assistance to the church. The team went to court to keep its internal emails secret

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After the AP first reported on the alliance in early 2020, Saints owner Gayle Benson denied that anyone "associated with our organizations made recommendations or had input" on the list of pedophile priests.

The Saints reiterated that denial in their statement Saturday, saying no Saints employees "had any responsibility for adding or removing any names from that list." The team said that no employees offered "any input, suggestions or opinions as to who should be included or omitted from" the list.

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His recommendations were consistent with the Archdiocese which included: be honest, complete and transparent,” her statement said. “We are proud of the role we played and yes, in hindsight, we would help again to assist the Archdiocese in its ability to publish the list with the hope of taking this step to heal the community.”

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“To suggest that I would offer money to the Catholic Church for anything related to the clergy molestation issue sickens me,” she wrote.

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There is no other spot. Only one team would move East

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Vegas and Seattle will both be in the West. That means the East would have 2 fewer teams. So the Twolves and Us/Memphis would have to move to even it out.

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Vegas and Seattle will both be in the West. That means the East would have 2 fewer teams. So the Twolves and Us/Memphis would have to move to even it out.

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