Atlanta Thrashers Have 3 Local Suitors In Potential Sale, Says Report

We don’t know who is interested in purchasing the Atlanta Thrashers, but a report from Craig Custance of the Sporting News does tell us a few things about the continued attempt by the team’s current owners to ship them off to the highest bidder.

Custance, who worked on the Thrashers beat before going national, reports that there are three potential owners interested in buying the team from Atlanta Spirit Group, which currently owns the Thrashers, the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and Philips Arena. Most importantly, all three owners would keep the team in Atlanta, says one of the current owners, Bruce Levenson.

In an interview with Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, co-owner Michael Gearon said there’s a “sense of urgency” surrounding the ownership group, Atlanta Spirit, and their need to find somebody to invest in or purchase the team.

Gearon repeated multiple times his desire to keep the team in Atlanta and the struggles that go along with that, stating more than once the need for local support and the need for the local community to step up. According to him, that just hasn’t happened.