Bill Simmons: Multiple Bidders Want to Move the Atlanta Hawks to Seattle

According to Bill Simmons, who you may remember broke the news of the Milwaukee Bucks sale, there are options for the Atlanta Hawks to move to Seattle outside of Chris Hansen.

Hearing Hawks owners want team to stay in Atlanta. BUT - hearing Thomas Tull and Chris Hansen have separate Hawks-to-Seattle bids planned.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) January 6, 2015

Thomas Tull is the CEO of Legendary Pictures. How him owning the team would work as far as an arena remains unseen.

Bidding for the Hawks is currently underway and, as Simmons said, the preference is that the team stay put.

This story will be updated as news breaks.

UPDATE 4:22 pm

Here is Chris Daniels's write-up on the story.