Commissioner Bud Selig has called Washington the prime area for a team's relocation, but he has not said when he would permit a team to move there.
The Nets would have to pay $350,000 to Partizan, the maximum the N.B.A. permits a team to offer a European team for a buyout; Krstic would be responsible for the difference, which Fleisher described as substantial.
Since the league does not permit a team to pay a fine issued to one of its employees, the burden falls on Newman.
Last week, she suspended a civil servant because he had permitted a soccer team from a Sri Lankan school to play in a match in a government stadium in the state capital of Chennai.
Earlier he permitted an FBI team to capture a terrorism suspect and bundle him into a plane bound for the US.
But someone outside Ms. Pelosi's team permitted a peek at her list, and it counted Martin Frost of Texas, the third-ranking member of the House Democratic leadership, as planning to vote against the bill.
No regrets, no fears, no hesitation," he tweeted after an hourlong workout. AP) BRAZILIAN APPEAL REJECTED The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Brazil's application to enter the Olympic women's bobsled event only days after permitting an Australian team to join an expanded competition.
However, even after the controversy came to light, the team was still able to continue wearing it as competition rules did not permit changing a team's uniform midway through the Games.
These permits, which allow a team to play from mid-April to mid-September, are only $16 for a two-hour game.
