Wow...just wow. You obviously share no similar allegiances with us on this board if you are that fairweather. I understand your reasonings in this arena battle, but saying that you, and other diehards in Sacramento would convert to another team because of arena location is going a bit too far. Do you know the passion that runs through our veins?? Most of us have been fans since day one, and would NEVER, and I do mean NEVER...like any other team in the NBA other than the Kings. If the Kings built an arena in Marysville, I'd be the first on the waiting list for season tickets. If the Kings built an arena in Tahoe, I'd be the first one in line to get the bus caravan going up the hill. Like a few others have said...Marysville is alot closer than Anaheim or Kansas City. And if the Kings DO end up moving down the road, I wouldnt have a team, I guess...because there's no way in hell I'd LIKE another team, or even TRY to like, in the same way. The Sacramento Kings are a business, yes I do understand this...but the fans of it bleed no other blood than purple and black! Anyways...sorry for the 'rah rah go team!' rant there.
I don't think that's practical at all. You think Kings fans who live in Stockton would travel to Marysville to see the Kings? Your logon name says it all... I can rattle off a few names, too: Joe Klein instead of Chris Mullin (OUCH!); Pervis instead of, well, just about anybody, but Tim Hardaway; Wayman Tisdale; Positive Dave (RIP) singing "Stand By Your Kings" on Ned Plaid's old show...
I go back a while. Moved here in 1964, from Chico.
Fans are far more practical than you think. Case in point: When the Warriors had to play in San Jose for a season while the contractor renovated Oracle, their fan base walked. Took them YEARS to recover.
Man, if the Kings moved to Dixon, they'd pick up twice as many fans as they'd lose. Just as I don't entertain the idea of going to a Warriors game now (too far), I would never go to a game in Marysville.
But Marysville is such a huge pipe-dream anyway. Talk about a hypothetical. Wow. I can't see how that county would fund that. What'd that be, a 2 cent increase in the sales tax for 40 years? And I'd get to go up and down 99 20 times a year? Woohoo. Party time. Not.
Dixon, being in Yolo County, makes sense. Much easier to form a JPA with Yolo County; draw fans from Solano and Contra Costa. For Roseville fans, it's a 20 minute longer drive. For folks like me, it's 10 minutes. That sure beats an additional hour each way...
This is just going to sound mean, and I don't want it to. But if the Kings move to Tahoe and you're volunteering to head the bus brigade, might I suggest that you need more hobbies. I know, what you're saying is a hypothetical, but the point is still the same: You'd pick up more fans than you'd lose by locating in Dixon.