MyNorthwest.com staff

Washington guard Isaiah Thomas said Friday on the Calabro show that he would consider skipping his senior season to enter the NBA draft if he thought he could be taken high enough, though added that he is not thinking much about it at the moment.

Thomas, a 5-foot-9 junior guard, leads the Pac-10 in assists with 5.67 per game and is third in scoring at 16.8 points per game. In Washington's 85-68 win over Arizona on Thursday he scored 22 points and dished out 10 assists, both game-highs.

He has said before that he would stay at Washington all four years, but here is what he told Jim Moore and Chris Egan, who was filling in for Calabro:

"I'm not really worried about that right now. I'm worried about winning as many games as possible and going as far as we can this season. I'll think about that once the season is over, but like I said before I love the University of Washington and I would love to stay. Lottery pick, first round, that's guaranteed two-three years and some money, so you've got to look at your options. You've got to always have your options open to things like that. You've got to weigh the good and the bad of any type of situation. So I'm definitely thinking about it and it's in the back of my head. But as of right now I'm thinking about this team."

Listen to Isaiah Thomas

So, this is an artist's rendering of what Jim Moore wore into the office today...and who knows where else.

MyNorthwest.com staff

With attendance at New Orleans Hornets games continuing to lag, a columnist for NBA.com thinks it's time for the team to relocate to Seattle.

The Hornets, which were purchased by the NBA from majority owner George Shinn in December, aren't meeting the required average attendance of 14,735 that must be met to avoid triggering a clause in their lease that would allow them to leave after this season.

"To me, it's a almost a no-brainer," NBA.com columnist Fran Blinebury said on the Calabro show of a relocation to Seattle, which he advocated in a column earlier this month.

Blinebury said the New Orleans business community has pledged $200,000 to help reach the attendance threshold by the Jan. 31 deadline, but attendance is still falling well short.

"Here we have this desperate bid, supposedly, to save the team. It's artificially inflated by contributions from the business community," Blinebury said. "They're still not going to hit the (attendance requirements). I just don't think New Orleans can long-term support an NBA team anyway."

Blinebury said Seattle is more deserving of an NBA team than St. Louis, Anaheim or Kansas City.

"Seattle was done wrong. Seattle is a proven market," he said. "That is where we ought to be."

KeyArena's inability to generate sufficient revenue has been cited as a potential barrier to bringing the NBA back to Seattle, but Blinebury said KeyArena is not much worse than the New Orleans Arena, where the Hornets currently play.

"That building is not a 21st century NBA building," he said. It's got none of the bells and whistles of the United Center, Toyota Center, Staples Center, or anything like that. ... So if that works, you can't tell me that a reconfigured Key Arena shouldn't be able to work."

Listen to Fran Blinebury

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

UPDATE: The Rams have hired Josh McDaniels as offensive coordinator.