Tony Bizjak @TonyBizjak
Sac Kings remain tight-lipped today. Hansen group not talking. NBA silent. No news is ...?
dont like the sound of that
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Tony Bizjak @TonyBizjak
Sac Kings remain tight-lipped today. Hansen group not talking. NBA silent. No news is ...?
dont like the sound of that
I only disagree on one point. If Ballmer is going to get an expansion team, then there needs to be an eastern conference expansion team for parity. So KJ will have to line up an expansion for Ballmer and some other ownership group in the east.
Hey, I hear Virginia Beach is looking for an NBA franchise.
Hey, I hear Virginia Beach is looking for an NBA franchise.
Kings sold to Seattle...
Comcast Sports Net: CSN reporter Matt Steinmetz reports Kings sold to Seattle-based group for 525 million..
http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/kings-move-seattle-done-deal
Comcast Sports Net: CSN reporter Matt Steinmetz reports Kings sold to Seattle-based group for 525 million..
http://www.csnbayarea.com/warriors/kings-move-seattle-done-deal
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Agreed. In a world with Twitter/Facebook/ any social media site you can name, there's too much faulty information out in the world. Just got to keep believing if we can get a Sacramento offer somewhere close to that $525 million mark, that the NBA would keep the team in Sac. Our fanbase and city have more than proven that we want to keep the team which leaves me to believe it's all about dollars now.
Seattle a Great Sports Town
I used to live in Seattle and went to a lot of Sonics games in the 1970s. I knew a guy that was a sports ed major. His brother played for St Bonaventure and was Bob Lanier's roommate. We went to see the Pistons with Bob Lanier at center, play the Sonics. We were under the basket on the baseline during a foul shot with Lanier at the line. My friend says "Hey Big Cat". Bob holds the ball, says "Hi, I'll see you after the game." He makes two shots. We spent about 20 minutes with Lanier and he was a quality human being. His hands were twice the size of mine and he wore about a size 19 shoe.
It would sad for the King's to leave Sacto but it might change everything to have new ownership, sad to say.
I used to live in Seattle and went to a lot of Sonics games in the 1970s. I knew a guy that was a sports ed major. His brother played for St Bonaventure and was Bob Lanier's roommate. We went to see the Pistons with Bob Lanier at center, play the Sonics. We were under the basket on the baseline during a foul shot with Lanier at the line. My friend says "Hey Big Cat". Bob holds the ball, says "Hi, I'll see you after the game." He makes two shots. We spent about 20 minutes with Lanier and he was a quality human being. His hands were twice the size of mine and he wore about a size 19 shoe.
It would sad for the King's to leave Sacto but it might change everything to have new ownership, sad to say.
Fairly credible sources. Would not surprise me at all if the Maloof "want to run the franchise without owning it" stupidity was just a way to extort another $25mil from the deal to make them go away entirely. But the media types are idiots if they don't understand its not sold until the NBA says its sold.
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I wouldn't. I'd like to see sell outs and raucous crowds for the rest of the year with the last game being as loud as that arena has ever seen it. If the Kings are indeed leaving I'd like that to be the last memory of the Sacramento fanbase that came out to support THEIR team even as it was been stripped away from them.
I will be there to do my part.
I will be there to do my part.
New ownership could change everything, sure. But moving the Kings to Seattle destroys everything, at least as far as the Royals/Kings franchise is concerned. Even as a Sacramento native I'd almost be okay with the move if the team would continue to be the Kings or Royals. But rebranding them as the new Supersonics means that for all intents and purposes the franchise that we all rooted for will cease to exist and it's history end in 2013.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but if the Seattle deal goes through I'd actually have preferred that they move to Anaheim.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but if the Seattle deal goes through I'd actually have preferred that they move to Anaheim.
Lesser of two evils in my view. Yes, the Magoofs would still have a team and they would have taken them from Sacramento, but at least my team still exists to root for AND it's in California vs my team disappearing entirely so that the Supersonics can exist again. I've long since rooted for the Kings while hating the Maloofs, I could continue to do that with the Anaheim Royals. But the Supersonics are Seattle's team, not mine.
But I am still hoping that KJ can put together an ownership group to match the money the Maloofs would get from the Hansen/Ballmer deal and the NBA will side with the team wanting to keep the franchise where it is.
I think Seattle deserves an expansion franchise. But we deserve our Kings.
But I am still hoping that KJ can put together an ownership group to match the money the Maloofs would get from the Hansen/Ballmer deal and the NBA will side with the team wanting to keep the franchise where it is.
I think Seattle deserves an expansion franchise. But we deserve our Kings.
The Kings are no longer the Kings when/if they move to Seattle. It doesn't have to be Anaheim. If the Kings HAD to be sold/moved, just not Seattle. I rather it be Kansas City, Kentucky.. anywhere where at least the history of the team continues just like when the Royals moved to KC.
Seattle is that one specific hell of a situation where they want to wipe the Kings off clean as if it is an expansion team and throw it back in the city and continue their Supersonics history.
I'm sorry, but I can't continue to justify "Seattle deserves a team" because the only team they really deserve is the original Sonics team that they loss or an expansion team. They can either go after Clay Bennett the slim ball or they can wait and continue to work with Stern/Silver for an expansion team.
It is extremely ridiculous to allow Seattle to buy a team from another city and whip away that team's history. It is unfair to all the fans in Sac, KC, Cincy and around the world that ever cared about the Kings.
Just for discussion, lets pretend the Celtics were the only team for sale and hansen offers to buy the team for a very large amount of money to move to Seattle where they will wipe off the history of the team and make it back into his childhood dream "Supersonics".
Would the NBA allow that? Would the owners vote approve or disapprove? How come it's ok to let it slip by because the Kings are not as storied a franchise as certain teams? Fans, regardless of team association should deserve the same amount of respect and consideration.
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