More from Seattle on the search for a new coach: the Storm want to have the new hire in place by mid-January.

COO Karen Bryant says she wants one hire for coach and GM, and that she's looking for someone with previous WNBA experience: Marianne Stanley, however-- contrary to rumor-- is not on the organization's list.

From the same piece, more-- did they bury the lede? did we?-- on the Storm's future: according to Bryant, when owner Clay Bennett asks the NBA to let him move the Sonics, he won't ask to move the Storm.

Bryant: "what he has said is when he files for relocation with the NBA, it’s not going to include the Storm and that in the meantime he is pursuing alternate outcomes for the Storm.

“So I think the jump that a lot of people have made – and not unreasonably so – is that he is entertaining the idea of potentially keeping the franchise in Seattle with local ownership. But he has not said that officially nor am I aware of that. I know there are some folks here who are interested and that they have made contact with him.”

There's more on new arena plans this morning too: such plans could keep both teams where they are.