 PLOT: Through out the course of the movie, Reggie Dunlop has the  team, the media, and the public duped into believing that the team  is being sold to a retirement community in Florida. However, at no  time does Joe McGrath, who, as G.M. of the team, has a working  relationship with the owner, ever make a public comment, or stop  Reggie Dunlop from perpetrating the lie. Nor does anyone know who  the owner is until Dunlop blackmails him into getting the owners  name. At some point prior, the media had to know who the owner was,  certainly the names of the ownership group would have been in the  teams program and media guide.