To recap,
Dave said in a string of tweets tonight:
1. The loss of Granger is (now, present tense) "absolutely devastating" for the Kings.
2. "There is more to this"
3. Linked to a fan tweet asking whether "Granger got tired of the non-sense" and said draw your own conclusions.
Then the caper, full text but moving the order of one setence:
I'm going to log off for a bit. ... It's too hot. I've seen this movie before and had a starring role.
Enough people have 'adjusted' lately.
Well then, the first three tweets certainly paid a picture, from a person that's clearly trying to communicate a problems exists and implying that the failure to walk the company line could be a problem for any KHTK that goes negative / against the Kings company line on bad news. Barling knows this well, Dave knows it REALLY well.
And then Dave shut it down, seemingly making reference to those events and the lack of his ability to say what he was thinking. While Dave said that he thinks "enough people have adjusted" and seems to want to paint the picture here, I doubt he persist or spills the beans. I doubt any other staff at KHTK or the Bee diverts from the company line.
While many are focused on the fact that Granger isn't leaving for another job, he was under contract with the Kings and it was his choice not to return. It would have been tampering for other teams or organizations to speak to Granger (which does happen, but less so for top shelf team staff than players which is a free for all). The "story" was "broken" by Voison, who has a well earned record of shoveling crap for the team.
While getting the place open was a huge task and they spin this as the job consisting of mostly selling sponsorship, going forward its worth noting that a big chunk of the pitch to the NBA Board of Governors was that the Maloofs had failed to properly market the team extract the funds that were laying around them. How they priced tickets, marketed the team, all of it. Not just a new arena bump, but that the business ops were poorly run. The new arena bump should smooth some growing pains, but if the business ops aren't run well, there will be less money to spend.