If you believe that divisiveness and polarizing leadership have been hampering the decades-long effort to bring an NBA franchise to the state of Kentucky, then Thursday was a good day.
The Louisville Basketball Investment and Support Group — an LLC formed last year to help bring the NBA to the commonwealth — announced that Dan Issel will serve as its president. The group also announced it has raised $750,000 in seed money to fund its activities.
I have never met anyone in Kentucky who doesn’t like Issel, the former University of Kentucky great and one of the 1970s-era stars of the Kentucky Colonels of the old American Basketball Association.