The story broke on Thursday, appearing first in two sports newsletters and a gossip aggregator before noon.
RENEGADES OWNER’S EMOTIONAL PLAY-CALLING COSTING TEAM COMPETITIVENESS. Anonymous source in the front office described the new majority owner as “reactive” and “personally invested in outcomes in ways that compromise objective decision-making.” The trade of Sam Whitaker, blocked last month, was cited as an example of “an owner overriding experienced management out of loyalty rather than strategy.”
Grant didn’t have a byline on any of it.
He didn’t need one.
By practice, the locker room had seen it. Sienna could feel the difference when she walked through — not hostility, the team was past that — but a particular attentiveness, the kind that happened when people who cared about som
