Here We Stay Rally at City Hall video
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LWP777
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Looks like about 30 people showed up for the rally....about the same number that goes to Kings games nowadays. 
kennadog
Dog On It!
Well we had invites out to everybody here that lived close enough. Its not easy, though, to be a city hall at 5:30 on a weekday. I took time off from work for the hour and a half drive, through the rain, to get there. Also, the subject was not something on the agenda for the council. Some people just got up to express support for an arena and keepiong the Kings in Sacramento during the public comments portion of the agenda.Looks like about 30 people showed up for the rally....about the same number that goes to Kings games nowadays.
Do I wish more had shown up? Sure. Want to join us next time? Its better than no one showing up to tell the council there are people concerned about these issues.
Glenn
Hall of Famer
What is the key to getting them to stay an extra year? Write to Stern? Luckenbill? What? In the end the NBA has the final say and there are negatives to a three team media market. Stern knows that. In any case, I'm going to look into that avenue. I don't think the fans have approached the NBA or else I missed it.
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I have looked around the internet for a way of contacting Stern, his officers, the NBA, etc. and have come up cold. It's just a big ad for the NBA and full of praise for Stern. Who can get through to the NBA so a fan can say something?
It very well may be that the NBA is not interested in the fan. They talk of all the money they have made and brag endlessly. They don't want their boat rocked. Everything's fine, right Stern? Does someone have a contact in the Kings that can find out?
I think a bunch of us could write something and have it reviewed by the leaders and some how use one of those web sites that allows a million people to sign and send it.
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I have looked around the internet for a way of contacting Stern, his officers, the NBA, etc. and have come up cold. It's just a big ad for the NBA and full of praise for Stern. Who can get through to the NBA so a fan can say something?
It very well may be that the NBA is not interested in the fan. They talk of all the money they have made and brag endlessly. They don't want their boat rocked. Everything's fine, right Stern? Does someone have a contact in the Kings that can find out?
I think a bunch of us could write something and have it reviewed by the leaders and some how use one of those web sites that allows a million people to sign and send it.
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kennadog
Dog On It!
I think it will be up to the other owners. I just don't think enough of them will vote to stop it. Still, that's one possible hope. Before that, however, my only real hope at this time is that the Maloofs cannot reach an acceptable deal with Anaheim. As recently as last night Grant reported that there was no deal with Anaheim, yet. He seemed to feel very confident of his sources on that. I think that's a more realistic hope than that the team owners will stop it. Unfortunately, we may have a long wait, if the Mallofs actually file relocation papers on the 18th. The owners get to go over everything, request information, etc. before they set a date to actually take a vote on the issue. I can hardly bear the waiting.
Glenn
Hall of Famer
I think it will be up to the other owners. I just don't think enough of them will vote to stop it. Still, that's one possible hope. Before that, however, my only real hope at this time is that the Maloofs cannot reach an acceptable deal with Anaheim. As recently as last night Grant reported that there was no deal with Anaheim, yet. He seemed to feel very confident of his sources on that. I think that's a more realistic hope than that the team owners will stop it. Unfortunately, we may have a long wait, if the Mallofs actually file relocation papers on the 18th. The owners get to go over everything, request information, etc. before they set a date to actually take a vote on the issue. I can hardly bear the waiting.
Then let's get the email addresses of all the owners. It's not that difficult if a few people do it. I figured Stern had influence over the owners.
I think the deal with Anaheim and the money necessary to make a move are tough problems. Toss into it a minority partnership that doesn't agree and the Maloofs are in a mess. They DO need an arena but that's not the problem a this second.
Cuban is obvious, Kohl of Milwaukee is too old to care. Besides he is in DC.
Is anybody interested in trying to influence the owners?
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Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
I applaud everyone who showed up Tuesday night, it's VERY hard for me to get time in the evenings for ANYTHING with a wife and 2 kids(youngest is only 9 mos. too). My heart was at city hall, though. I loved what each and every one of you had to say to the Council, and it touched my heart as I watched it on the video above. If I had 5 minutes to sit down with Mayor KJ, I think I'd only have 2 questions for him: 1)Who is Sacramento? 2)If you have kids...wouldn't it be a shame for them not to be able to experience what those of us that have been here for the past 26 years have? Mr. Johnson, I know you may not think you have much say in whether the Maloofs stay or leave at this point, but you have to MAKE THEM hear you! The sands of the hourglass are almost empty, and when that happens I won't be able to share the magic I experienced of Kings basketball with my kids. You CAN make a difference, even with only having 1 vote in this thing...YOU have to PERSONALLY do something drastic and desperate to talk to the Maloofs. YOU can make it happen...anyway, anyhow...just make it happen!
edit: And I was at KJ's first NBA game back here at Arco I when he was with the Cavs...I was only 11 yrs old...that was cool! Imagine what life would be like without moments like that?
edit: And I was at KJ's first NBA game back here at Arco I when he was with the Cavs...I was only 11 yrs old...that was cool! Imagine what life would be like without moments like that?
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Glenn
Hall of Famer
Well, he has always been a bit of a dictator. I don't know how that power translates when it comes to the owners but why not assume he influences them. To think any other way is to give up on ONE silly note.
kennadog
Dog On It!
I don't want to.
I want to take my grandkids to games.I loved the guy that wore the Kings jersey and jacket that his dad bought for him when he was a kid. Of course, they are too small for him, as can be seen in the video, but it was really touching to see that and hear him talk about sharing Kings fandom with his dad.
Circa_1985_Fan
All-Star
I don't want to.
I loved the guy that wore the Kings jersey and jacket that his dad bought for him when he was a kid. Of course, they are too small for him, as can be seen in the video, but it was really touching to see that and hear him talk about sharing Kings fandom with his dad.
Yeah that was touching. The one that got me was the first gentleman in the video that everything he said brought him to tears when he was done with his speech...that got me. To think that I won't have the opportunity to show my boys the magic of Sacramento Kings basketball is heartbreaking. My 9 month old will never know...I've taken my 6 year old to a good handful of games since he was about 2, he loved Kevin Martin, Ron Artest and Slamson..and now I have to tell him they're leaving and he'll never get to see his Kings again...
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kennadog
Dog On It!
My granddaughter is three. I'll take her to a game before theend of this season. Possibly her first and last, although we went to a pre-season game this year. She's watched them on TV with me. Right now she has a love-hate thing going with Slamson. Likes seeing him from afar, but terrified of him up close. That's why she's always asking where he is, LOL.