City officials plan to propose a five-year, $97 million extension of the team’s lease with an opt-out after three years, according to documents obtained by ESPN and ABC7. Even if the team leaves after three years, the city’s proposal would require the A’s to pay the full amount.

That creates a significant gulf between what the city is asking and what the A’s have offered — a two-year deal worth $17 million, according to ESPN’s report, which stated that the current lease is $1.5 million per year. If they stay the full five years, the annual cost would be $19.4 million; if they opt out, it would be $32.3 million.

A major incentive for the A’s to stay in Oakland is the reported $67 million in annual revenue from the team’s deal to broadcast games on NBC Sports California. If the team were to leave for Sacramento, one of two cities it has targeted outside of Oakland and Las Vegas, it could potentially continue broadcasting games on that channel for at least a portion of that deal.

This week’s meeting will be the third in a series of discussions since the sides began extension talks in February.

The opt-out after three years would align with the A’s targeted date of opening their proposed stadium on the Las Vegas Strip in time for the 2028 season, though the Tropicana still sits on that site. The casino is set to close Tuesday as organizers begin preparing to demolish it, but the team still could be delayed by legal challenges to the $380 million in public funding earmarked for the stadium, which would be MLB’s smallest.

Oakland also asks that the A’s sell their 50% share of the Coliseum as part of the deal. Additionally, the city plans to ask MLB to commit to a year-long exclusive window to negotiate for an expansion team if and when the league does add franchises or a vote to leave the A’s brand in Oakland. A third alternative, per ESPN, would be to facilitate the team’s sale to a local buyer, but Fisher has said repeatedly that he does not plan to sell the A’s, despite fans’ protests.

The Oakland Coliseum Authority voted unanimously (6-0) Friday morning to approve hosting the soccer clubs’ home games at the Coliseum in 2025.

The Roots and Soul are playing this season at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, where they also played last year in the Soul’s inaugural season after the Roots played their first four years at Laney College.

The Roots compete in the USL Championship, a second-division men’s league, while the Soul plays in the USL W League, a fourth-division pre-professional women’s league, but plans to join a new Division I league, the USL Super League, in 2025. The men’s team is playing a 34-game schedule this season, while the women’s team is playing 12 games.

It is unclear what impact, if any, the scheduling of soccer games will have on the city and Coliseum’s negotiations with the A’s to extend their lease beyond 2024 as they seek a relocation to Las Vegas, where their proposed stadium won’t open until 2028.

The A’s and Oakland officials met Thursday to discuss a potential lease extension and will meet again early next month, though the A’s have also met with officials from Sacramento and Salt Lake City.

The soccer teams and the stadium’s governing body must still negotiate on the specific terms of the agreement.

The team’s official online store, operated by Fanatics, is only selling a handful of jerseys with the Super Bowl patch on them, and all of the game replica options are red. That’s a problem, because the team wearing red for the Super Bowl is the Kansas City Chiefs, while the Niners will wear white.

The problem does not appear to be new to the 49ers. Last year, the Chiefs wore white in their Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles, but the only jerseys available on the Fanatics-run NFL.com are red.

Beyond the color scheme issue, there’s another problem. Each Super Bowl jersey listed on the team site, from Brandon Aiyuk to Nick Bosa, includes a note that reads “Special Event Item – Ships by 2/14, so it’s not eligible for Super Bowl delivery.”

At least that matter has a potential solution: The Niners’ team stores around the Bay Area have Super Bowl LVIII jerseys in stock, a store representative confirmed on Friday. Those jerseys are all the same as the ones online, though — only red, aside from a black men’s Christian McCaffrey jersey and gray women’s jerseys for McCaffrey and Brock Purdy. It is unclear if any white Super Bowl jerseys will be made and distributed online or at the stores.

Fanatics, which has taken over operations of the online NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL fan shops over the last decade, has been ridiculed by fans, at times for mismatching one team’s font on another’s jersey.

For what it’s worth, there do appear to be white 49ers Super Bowl LVIII jerseys available online — they just happen to be unofficial knockoffs, and they won’t arrive by next Sunday, either.

Paul McCaffrey, the co-host of the “Murph and Mac Show,” was one of those cut, as was F.P. Santangelo, the evening show host. “Murph and Mac” ran from 6-10 a.m. and Santangelo’s hosting shift was 6-10 p.m. Those slots are now listed as “KNBR programming” on the station’s website.

Afternoon co-host Adam Copeland, who was promoted to programming director in recent weeks, addressed and lamented the layoffs at the top of the 6 p.m. hour along with Tom Tolbert, who joins him on the “Tolbert & Copes” afternoon show.

“I love the guys we let go of today. I’m looking forward to the future, but I really think we need to tip our cap and applaud the work that those guys have done,” Copeland said on what he called a “really difficult day”, according to SFGate.

“For the people that I’ve worked with, the people that I know, the people that were let go today, it’s not because of your performance,” Tolbert added. “It’s just the way this business is going.”

Much of the rest of Wednesday’s programming was normal: McCaffrey and co-host Brian Murphy hosted their morning show, with appearances from Giants play-by-play man Duane Kuiper and others.

“I want to thank everyone @KNBR for the amazing opportunity to be a part of their station for a second time around!” Santangelo, a former Giants and A’s utility player, tweeted in the afternoon. “I was informed today that due to budget cuts there will no longer be a 6-10 p.m. show.”

“I was also informed today that I won’t be continuing with @KNBR,” producer Erik Engle tweeted. “It was a hell of a ride and I’m grateful for all the growth, opportunity, good times, and better people.”

Copeland also noted that Lee Hammer, the former program director, would be leaving, as well as some digital staffers.

KNBR-680 has long been the radio home of 49ers and Giants games, and was long the unchallenged top sports talk station of the Bay Area, but in recent years it has lost significant ground to 95.7 FM, which has the rights to Warriors games.

The A’s, who have played at the Oakland Coliseum since arriving from Kansas City in 1968, are seeking to relocate their franchise to Las Vegas, where they plan to build a stadium on The Strip after failing to strike a deal to build a new stadium in the East Bay.

Oakland officials have been adamant that they did their part to raise money for a stadium, and they are preaching positivity to a fanbase poised to lose its second team (third counting the Warriors’ move to San Francisco) in five years.

The league’s owners are set to put the A’s relocation plan to a vote sometime during the meetings, which begin Tuesday and end Thursday.

Here are five things to know about the situation:

1. The owners are likely to vote yes

A’s owner John Fisher needs 75% approval (23 total ‘yes’ votes) from his fellow team governors for the relocation bid to pass.

Fisher has likely frustrated some of his fellow owners with the negative publicity generated by the proposed move, as well as the A’s cynical management of their payroll and moves to receive payments via MLB’s revenue sharing model.

Still, most MLB owners would be very careful not to establish precedent of voting against a team governor making changes as he pleases.

2. There are plenty more steps to come

The vote is a major hurdle, but it’s hardly the last one before relocation is official.

Fisher and the A’s franchise does have $380 million in funding in place from the state of Nevada, but that may be in some jeopardy as a Nevada teachers union is working to gather signatures to put some of those funds on the 2024 ballot.

Beyond that, the team must sort out how to privately finance the remaining estimated $1.2 billion in construction cost, finalize renderings and put into place agreements to build and operate the stadium.

3. The A’s will play at least next season in Oakland

The team’s lease at the Coliseum runs through 2024, so there will be at least one lame-duck season in Oakland if relocation is approved.

Dave Kaval has floated three locations for the team to play home games between 2025 and 2028, when the proposed Vegas stadium is expected to open: Oracle Park, the Giants’ stadium in San Francisco; Las Vegas Ballpark, the home of the A’s Triple-A team in Summerlin, Nevada; and the Coliseum itself.

Oakland mayor Sheng Thao has said that before agreeing to an extension of the team’s lease, she wants to discuss with Major League Baseball the possibility of an expansion team coming to Oakland, as well as the Athletics team name and colors remaining here to pair with a potential new team, though the odds of expansion to Oakland soon seem quite slim.

4. Moving to Vegas would downgrade the A’s ballpark capacity and market size

The A’s are looking to build a 33,000-seat ballpark on the Vegas strip with a retractable roof for especially hot summer days, plus a casino development on 9 acres of adjacent land that the franchise would lease from the current landowners.

City officials are quick to point out that this is a much smaller haul than what the team had sought at Oakland’s harbor: a 35,000-seat waterfront ballpark with a surrounding village of 3,000 new homes, plus massive commercial developments and office space.

If the A’s were to scale down their dream development at the Oakland port to something closer to the Vegas proposal, then the team could still end up owning far more land than it would in Vegas, with major regulatory hurdles in the Bay Area already cleared.

Another note: The Coliseum is the MLB’s largest ballpark, whereas the Vegas stadium would be the league’s smallest.

And by ditching Oakland, the A’s would give up a share of the country’s 10th largest media market to occupy the 40th-ranked city on the list, according to Nielsen data.

5. The A’s need a binding stadium deal by January or risk losing important revenue

The A’s posted the league’s worst win-loss record this season on the way to finishing dead last in attendance, though a couple “reverse boycott” games over the summer led fans to pack the stands.

The MLB’s revenue-sharing model guarantees the struggling franchise a critical stream of millions of dollars annually. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, meanwhile, has waived the team’s relocation fee.

But the shared revenue available in 2024 and 2025 comes with a condition: The A’s must have a binding agreement for a new stadium by Jan. 15.

If Fisher’s fellow owners surprise observers by siding against him, it’s possible he would scramble to secure a ballpark deal within the next couple months — and Mayor Sheng Thao said last week the door in Oakland would be wide open.

“This is not over, not by a long shot,” Thao told A’s fans last week at a public rally. “We are urging the MLB owners: It’s very simple — vote no.”

The league announced the Bay Area as the host site for next season’s All-Star weekend at a Monday press conference in San Francisco featuring commissioner Adam Silver, San Francisco mayor London Breed and Warriors owner Joe Lacob.

“This will be the epicenter for basketball around the world,” Silver said of the All-Star festivities scheduled for Feb. 14-16, 2025. “Our fans from everywhere love coming to this market. They love the excitement here. So much innovation around this game has come from people who live and work in the Bay Area.”

This will be the third time the Warriors have hosted the All-Star Game. The first time played out well for Warriors fans: In 1967, the Cow Palace hosted the game and Warriors star Rick Barry was named the Most Valuable Player with a 38-point performance as the West won.

The last time the game was played in the Bay Area was 2000, when the Warriors were mired in a dark stretch. They didn’t have a player in the game, and team owner Chris Cohan was booed off the floor.

The Warriors are a far cry from the dregs of that weekend in 2000, which did feature a mesmerizing dunk contest win by Vince Carter of the Raptors. They have had 22 All-Star Game appearances over the last decade, including nine for Stephen Curry, the MVP of the 2022 game in which he scored 50 points.

Lacob said he is hopeful Curry will be selected to play in the showcase game at home.

“He gets to play for the first time in front of his home fans,” he said. “That would be one of my great wishes.”

All-Star weekend has traditionally begun Friday night with the Rising Stars game, then Saturday features the dunk and 3-point contests, as well as a skills challenge, and the game itself is played on Sunday.

Oakland will also play a role in the proceedings, as it will host the All-Star celebrity game on Friday, as well as a Saturday practice and showcase games for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the G League.

“When we started talking about NBA All-Star, it was important for us to have events on both sides of the bay,” Warriors team president and COO Brandon Schneider said.

After having players draft their own teams for the last half-decade, the league plans to return to an East-vs.-West format for the game this season, and Silver said more changes could be coming.

“We’re looking at all different approaches to All-Star and this is a great market to try new things,” he said, imploring fans to “stay tuned.”

Breed said she expects the city to see an economic boost from hosting the event.

“It’s not just about the economy but the excitement,” she said, citing expectations for 135,000 people to participate in events across the three-day weekend.

The weekend will kick off a significant 18-month period for the Bay Area, as Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will host the Super Bowl in February 2026 as well as at least one game in the FIFA World Cup later that summer.

LIVE: NBA All-Star 2025 Announcement https://t.co/4XlQ1a9BQq

— NBA (@NBA) November 6, 2023

The Warriors star’s personal brand with Under Armour announced this week that it has signed Kings guard De’Aaron Fox as its first signature athlete, forming a business connection between Northern California’s two star point guards.

The deal between Curry Brand and Fox will include a signature shoe launching next year and. Fox will also be involved in Under Armour’s grassroots basketball and “UA Next” programs focused on helping young prospects grow, according to a company release.

Curry, 35, said during an interview with ESPN that he was thrilled “to be able to partner with somebody like D-Fox, while we’re still competing, while we’re still battling.”

That competition is set to continue Friday night in Sacramento, when the Kings host the Warriors in the teams’ second game of the new season. The matchup revives last year’s instant classic first-round playoff series, which saw Curry and Fox go head-to-head for seven games as Curry’s Warriors came out on top when he scored 50 points in a Game 7 win after Fox suffered a finger fracture.

De’Aaron Fox signs with the Curry Brand, becoming the brand’s first signature athlete @malika_andrews sat down with the two stars to discuss this special moment pic.twitter.com/tLk7YLU1Fs

— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) October 26, 2023

Fox, 25, played the first five years of his career on a deal with Nike, but wasn’t signed to a shoe contract last season when he broke out and became a first-time All-Star as the Kings made the playoffs for the first time in his career.

During that playoff matchup, he said he wore Curry’s branded shoes.

“Our team would show the shoes and, they’re like ‘Oh he’s wearing Stephs, blah blah blah.’ And I’m like ‘Well, I’m gonna bust his ass in these,’” he told ESPN. “That’s how I’m thinking about it. Like, you see someone with your shoes on, you’re like ‘I got him.’ Well, what if you see someone with your shoes on and they’re coming at you? So it’s kind of a mind game on both sides.”

Curry first signed with Under Armour in 2013, before he rose to NBA superstardom with two MVP awards and four titles over the ensuing decade. The apparel company launched Curry Brand in 2020 and announced in March that it had agreed to an extension with Curry that could become a lifetime deal.

Whoever loses Friday’s game will have another shot to even the score soon, as the Warriors and Kings face off again in San Francisco next Wednesday.

They signaled as much when they announced late Wednesday night that they had reached a binding agreement to buy a plot of land in Las Vegas to build a new stadium and relocate to Sin City.

That deal, and the plan associated with it, would put the A’s on a path to an off-Strip stadium in 2027 at the earliest. Their lease at the Coliseum ends following the 2024 season.

So where will they play in 2025 and 2026? The New York Times mentioned Thursday that Oracle Park could be one option, but two others appear more likely: Extending at the Coliseum, similar to what happened with the Raiders while their Las Vegas stadium was being built, or playing at Las Vegas Ballpark — the home of their Triple-A affiliate — while constructing the MLB stadium.

Team president Dave Kaval said the A’s have a deal in place with the Aviators to use Las Vegas Ballpark if needed — possibly as soon as next season if the sides agree to terminate the lease early. Kaval also said the Aviators will remain in Las Vegas. The Minnesota Twins have a similar arrangement with their Triple-A affiliate in St. Paul, which is about 10 minutes from Target Field.

Some fans might want the team to hit the road sooner than later, angry that John Fisher and Co. are leaving Oakland. Others may want the A’s to stick around so they can see more games before saying goodbye.

Here are some positives and negatives — from the team’s perspective — of playing 2025 and 2026 in Oakland vs. heading to Las Vegas.

Oakland Coliseum

Pros

—The A’s already own half of the Coliseum. That surely helps offset the lease cost, or they could leverage selling that stake into a cheaper extension.

—They could continue their teardown-and-rebuild cycle, potentially entering Las Vegas in 2027 with a team that is two years closer to contention.

—If attendance stays low, they can continue selling the story that they aren’t well supported in Oakland.

Cons

— They are on pace to have the lowest home attendance of the 30 teams for the second season in a row and they will only become a bigger national embarrassment to MLB if even fewer fans fill the seats.

Las Vegas Ballpark

Pros

—Even at a 10,000-seat stadium, they are likely to draw better attendance with a new, excited fanbase than the one they intend to abandon

—Put the whole relocation mess in the past sooner than later

— A combination of hot, desert temperatures and cozy dimensions could do wonders for fans of the long ball: There were an average of 3.67 home runs hit per game last season at Las Vegas Ballpark, compared to 1.71 per game at the Coliseum. The A’s have only hit nine home runs in their first 12 home games this season.

Cons

— The park is an open-air stadium, which means every home game would likely need to start at 7:30 p.m. to combat Vegas’ searing temperatures.

— Stadium’s capacity may be 10,000, but that includes standing room-only tickets, meaning fans would really be crammed into the park. (Plus, can you imagine how many fans would try squeezing into the pool behind the fence in right-center?)

— Because it’s not a big-league facility, MLB and the players association would both have to sign off on the A’s spending a season or two there.

The Golden State superstar has a new contract with the apparel company that extends into his retirement and could become a lifetime deal through performance clauses triggering extensions, Under Armour founder Kevin Plank told ESPN. Terms of the agreement were not officially released, but Rolling Stone reported last year that Curry was nearing a $1 billion lifetime deal with the company.

Under Armour announced the deal Thursday morning, placing Curry as the president of the eponymous Curry Brand, which launched in 2020 honoring the highest-profile athlete signed with the Maryland-based company. The deal will beef up the brand, including adding to the roster of players signed to the Curry Brand.

Beyond what Curry, 35, will receive in the extended partnership with Under Armour, the contract includes “increased funding for community impact efforts” like refurbishing courts and training coaches.

“We understand that it’s a mutually beneficial venture to do some great things, build a great roster, build more scale to the business and create great storytelling,” Curry told ESPN.

Under Armour said the next phase of his partnership will elevate the company’s “commitment to new and exisiting categories — from basketball to gold, women, youth and sportstyle.”

Curry first signed with Under Armour in 2013, before his rise to NBA superstardom. Now, he’s one of the most popular and marketable athletes in the world. He signed a new deal in 2015 that ran through 2024 and included an equity stake in the company. Last fall, he released his tenth signature shoe with Under Armour, becoming the ninth player in NBA history to reach 10 consecutive models under one sneaker series.

“At his core, Stephen embodies what it means to be an Under Armour athlete, and we feel fortunate to take the next step with him in continuing to empower those who strive for more, together,” Plank said in the company’s release.

After Warriors practice on Thursday, coach Steve Kerr called Steph a “pretty incredible success story,” pointing to the nine-time All-Star’s impact on and off the court. That’s why, Kerr said, he wasn’t surprised Under Armour would want to ink Curry for such a long, lucrative deal.

“Certain athletes kind of transcend their time in the spotlight, Michael Jordan being one of them. Steph will be another one long after Steph plays in his last NBA game,” Kerr said.

“He’s still going to be a massive brand in and of himself. And there’s a reason for that. He’s charismatic but he’s authentic. People see that authenticity and they see his compassion, they see how much he cares for people and then they love watching him play. So Steph deserves everything he’s getting.”

The first 10 years was just the start. We are taking our partnership even further with a new long-term commitment to serve athletes and communities around the globe for years to come. #ProtectThisHouse pic.twitter.com/KUP4CDAJEH

— Under Armour (@UnderArmour) March 30, 2023

Johnson donated $100,000 last month to 34N22, a super PAC that supports Walker’s candidacy, according to FEC receipt filings reviewed by the Bay Area News Group. The donation, dated Sept. 30, was first reported Sunday by SF Gate.

This marks the third donation Johnson has made in support of Walker, beginning with a maximum personal donation of $2,900 directly to the campaign last September. He also donated $100,000 to 34N22 in January.

A request for comment from the Giants was not immediately returned Monday.

Walker, who is running against incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, has been in the news over the last month after a report from the Daily Beast that the candidate, who has said he is against abortion in all cases, paid for his then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. He also has been accused of threatening to shoot his ex-wife. His son Christian — a young conservative voice on social media — said several Walker family members urged him not to run, knowing elements of his past would return to the fore.

Johnson has previously come under fire for donating to U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who, like Walker, supported “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, a stance Walker appeared to walk back during a debate with Warnock Friday evening.

After the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6 of last year, Johnson declared a pledge “to do my part in helping to heal our nation and restore peace and respect in our democratic system.”

Johnson has been involved in Giants ownership since 1993, and his son Greg became the team’s executive chairman in 2020.