Essentially, yes. Stern has made it abundantly clear he wants to keep basketball in Sac, and KJ has done everything to put the pieces in place that will force that to happen, Burkle being the insurance policy. Having an ex NBA player, and charismatic like KJ, is a wet dream for David Stern. Now that Stern senses that the political environment has shifted, he will simply make sure there is a reasonable deal on the table, and if the Maloofs don't like it... they're done. They have zero negotiating power because their cards are on the table in the form of the lease agreement with Anaheim. All Sac has to do is beat that. Not that hard. Again, if they balk, in comes the Burkle bomb. Pretty simple really.