It's finally getting to me..

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I sit here, grown as hell, having a hard time seeing the keys of the keyboard because of the tears in my eyes. I always thought I'd be able to cope with the team leaving. I told myself "it's just a sports team". But the thought of OUR Kings playing their last game in OUR city is starting to set in. We as fans have our hearts invested into this team. Win or lose, they're ours. Once they're gone, they're gone. If they leave, not only will there be a huge void unable to be filled at Arco, but there will also be one in my heart.
 
completely echo those sentiments. There will forever be an empty space, never did i ever think this could become a reality but it is. There will be tears tonight, i cant believe its coming to this and were losing our kings
 
Let me preface this by saying I am a girl and am emotional, but I cried when Mitch Richmond went down in the playoffs, I cried in 2002, I cried when Chris Webber hurt his knee and when he was traded. The past month or so I find myself getting misty eyed, trying to will myself not to cry. Thus far it has worked, but I make no guarantees by the end of the night. I almost bought tickets to the game, but now I know I did the right thing in not do so, it would have been too much to deal with. :(

I am going to watch on TV, but will record at least the last Q of the radio call. For the last 20+ years I have loved listening to Gary Gerould. This very well may be his last NBA game too. I don't know how he, Grant and Jerry will be able to make in through tonight on air.
 
ReinadelosReys said:
Let me preface this by saying I am a girl and am emotional, but I cried when Mitch Richmond went down in the playoffs, I cried in 2002, I cried when Chris Webber hurt his knee and when he was traded. The past month or so I find myself getting misty eyed, trying to will myself not to cry. Thus far it has worked, but I make no guarantees by the end of the night. I almost bought tickets to the game, but now I know I did the right thing in not do so, it would have been too much to deal with. :(

I am going to watch on TV, but will record at least the last Q of the radio call. For the last 20+ years I have loved listening to Gary Gerould. This very well may be his last NBA game too. I don't know how he, Grant and Jerry will be able to make in through tonight on air.
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I'm a guy, and when Mitch went down, I remember being very upset. I stormed off and locked myself in my room after game 7 in 2002. It wasn't supposed to end that way. I threw a soda bottle and broke my TV stand when Webber went down. And now, here I am, a an adult, and I think I might have to lock myself in my room again. It's not supposed to end this way.
 
You're not supposed to take teams away from areas that support and love their players like the game tonight. You just don't do it. That kind of support is what the NBA is SUPPOSED to be about. So so sad.
 
It definitely sucks. That's why i stopped watching games 6 weeks ago. It was just depressing me further. i tried to watch the post game tonight but as soon as a saw folks crying in Arco, I had to turn it off. I can handle tears of joy in sports, but not these tears. This is real. People's lives are going to have a serious void now. I'm not even a super hardcore fan like many of you are and it's been bumming me out for months. So I can only imagine what it's like for those of you that have grown up with and who eat sleep and breath the Kings. I feel for you guys and really respect that so many of you have still been going to and watching games. It shows a love and commitment to the team beyond what I have and I consider myself a pretty big fan.

Don’t give up hope just yet, though. The odds of the NBA putting a roadblock between the Maloofs and Anaheim may not be great but they’re good enough to give us a punchers chance.
 
PejaFanatic said:
[video]http://www.nba.com/kings/video/2011/04/14/GrantJerryEmotionalSignoff201011-1648170[/video]
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Thanks for the video link PejaFanatic. It sums up how I and im sure the majority of kings fans feel right now. The Maloofs, the NBA, and the city of Sacramento have taken our team from us and they have let us down in a way I thought was not possible. Seeing Grant and Jerry almost completely lose it just about did me in. Im done with the NBA.
 
ReinadelosReys said:
Forget the business aspect, the tv contracts and the politics....I just don't know how it can feel right to move this team.
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I don't think I could do it if I were in their shoes. If I were that bad off, i'd just sell the team. It takes a pretty cold and narcissistic personality to put your own desire to own an NBA team above your minority owners, your players, the city that's supported you for more than a decade, and hundreds of thousands of passionate fans.
 
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Im not even from sacramento, but when grant and jerry lost it, and i saw paul westphals post game comments, i just cried my eyes out.

Even now im teary. I may not live in sacramento, but right now I just cant stop crying. The city, the fans, the team.. just amazing...

Theres just been so many memories, to the richmond era to when we nearly won a championship... all i can say is...

I'll always be a SACRAMENTO KINGS fan for eternity....
 
RookieOfTheDay said:
I don't think I could do it if I were in their shoes. If I were that bad off, i'd just sell the team. It takes a pretty cold and narcissistic personality to put your own desire to own an NBA team above your minorities owners, your players, the city that's supported you for more than a decade, and hundreds of thousands of passionate fans.
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With all due respect, several of the Kings minority owners have said they totally understand business reason Maloofs have finally been forced to look for a new home for their franchise - even if they don't like proposed move out of Sac. You frame it as a "cold and narcissistic personality," but what about the fact that NCAA has now refused to allow play by their collegiate athletes at the ancient arena calling it "substandard." It's only a matter of time before NBA will do exactly the same thing and REQUIRE Kings to move for having an unacceptable, crumbling arena for professional basketball. Lastly you say, "the city that's supported you for more than a decade." That's a bit of an overstatement as well, since "that city" has never produced a viable new arena plan, or any arena plan. Remember Arco 1 and Arco 2 were both planned, built and paid for by Greg Lukenbill - not the esteemed city council. Those are the cold hard facts and facts can be stubborn things.
 
PurpleHaze said:
With all due respect, several of the Kings minority owners have said they totally understand business reason Maloofs have finally been forced to look for a new home for their franchise - even if they don't like proposed move out of Sac. You frame it as a "cold and narcissistic personality," but what about the fact that NCAA has now refused to allow play by their collegiate athletes at the ancient arena calling it "substandard." It's only a matter of time before NBA will do exactly the same thing and REQUIRE Kings to move for having an unacceptable, crumbling arena for professional basketball. Lastly you say, "the city that's supported you for more than a decade." That's a bit of an overstatement as well, since "that city" has never produced a viable new arena plan, or any arena plan. Remember Arco 1 and Arco 2 were both planned, built and paid for by Greg Lukenbill - not the esteemed city council. Those are the cold hard facts and facts can be stubborn things.
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I understand the business reasons myself. It isn't rocket science. I'm simply saying that were I in their situation, I don't think I could do it. Not now. Not with Kevin Johnson and Chris Webber basically begging me to stay. That's probably why i wouldn't make a very good businessman on a big stage like that. You have to be able to make cold and selfish decisions to run a business at that level and I don't think I could do it. I'd go broke trying to get an arena built in Sacramento before I'd move the team.
 
PurpleHaze said:
With all due respect, several of the Kings minority owners have said they totally understand business reason Maloofs have finally been forced to look for a new home for their franchise - even if they don't like proposed move out of Sac. You frame it as a "cold and narcissistic personality," but what about the fact that NCAA has now refused to allow play by their collegiate athletes at the ancient arena calling it "substandard." It's only a matter of time before NBA will do exactly the same thing and REQUIRE Kings to move for having an unacceptable, crumbling arena for professional basketball. Lastly you say, "the city that's supported you for more than a decade." That's a bit of an overstatement as well, since "that city" has never produced a viable new arena plan, or any arena plan. Remember Arco 1 and Arco 2 were both planned, built and paid for by Greg Lukenbill - not the esteemed city council. Those are the cold hard facts and facts can be stubborn things.
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True...but what sucks is, I truly believe, if given one more season, that the arena deal would be done here. Somehow. Now that the threat is real and valid, and now that Chris Webber and his team want to help, Comcast is on board, we will finally see a plan from the highly-esteemed Taylor/ICON team, and everyone now realizes that we need to involve more than just the dopey Sac City Council, it seems like it would be inevitable. But the chances are slim that we will get that extra season. So so sad....
 
Brac-o-matic said:
True...but what sucks is, I truly believe, if given one more season, that the arena deal would be done here. Somehow. Now that the threat is real and valid, and now that Chris Webber and his team want to help, Comcast is on board, we will finally see a plan from the highly-esteemed Taylor/ICON team, and everyone now realizes that we need to involve more than just the dopey Sac City Council, it seems like it would be inevitable. But the chances are slim that we will get that extra season. So so sad....
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Exactly. And the Maloofs know this too. They don't want to stay in Sacramento. If they truly did, they'd give Johnson, Webber, Taylor, Comcast, and whoever else gets involved a year to see what they can do. You don't walk out right in the middle of the most serious and focused arena effort to date.
 
I've never seen so much emotion out of Grant and Jerry. That sign off tonight was so heart-wrenching. After everything the Kings fans have been through, I'm done with the NBA. The Maloofs should just sell the team to someone who wants to keep them in Sacramento. Any person with just a little common sense can see that Samueli will end up with the team if moved to Anaheim. The Maloofs don't seem to be very business-savvy. They want "world class" everything and can't afford it.

I've had it. I'm emotional and I've had it.
 
RookieOfTheDay said:
Exactly. And the Maloofs know this too. They don't want to stay in Sacramento. If they truly did, they'd give Johnson, Webber, Taylor, Comcast, and whoever else gets involved a year to see what they can do. You don't walk out right in the middle of the most serious and focused arena effort to date.
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Yup. When they were first talking about extending the filing deadline, I figured they would give Taylor/ICON all the financial info they needed, with the thought that, if they couldn't get a deal going in 90 days, they would go with the fallback- Anaheim. Whadaya know...they never turned over the docs, and that said it all right there...
 
Brac-o-matic said:
It didn't make me happy to find out that C-Webb wanted to buy the team, and was turned down....
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I know it's their team but it just seems wrong somehow that they can move it when there's local people with money who want to buy it. There ought to be some sort of clause or something that says owners can't move a team if there's other viable potential owners looking to purchase it. They should at least be required to sell the majority share in a situation like this.
 
RookieOfTheDay said:
I understand the business reasons myself. It isn't rocket science. I'm simply saying that were I in their situation, I don't think I could do it. Not now. Not with Kevin Johnson and Chris Webber basically begging me to stay. That's probably why i wouldn't make a very good businessman on a big stage like that. You have to be able to make cold and selfish decisions to run a business at that level and I don't think I could do it. I'd go broke trying to get an arena built in Sacramento before I'd move the team.
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The Maloofs one-upped you and managed to go broke by doing nothing of the sort.
 
This is really hard for me. I've been with this team from their first day at the warehouse. 10,000 strong. We gave Larry Bird a standing ovation, and he couldn't quite figure out why. I don't want to get into intellectually vacant discussions on why this is happening. There are a lot of reasons why, and anyone that wants to take a rational look at the circumstances, with all emotions aside, might come to the same conclusions as the parties involved.

But I don't care about that. Not tonight. Right now I'm torn between hope and despair. And I fear that one will lead to the other. I'm not ready for the Kings to be a part of my memories. Memories are like photo albums. Something you look at when your not able to go out and be in the picture anymore. I might be close, but I'm not there yet. I want to do something. Anything! Other than feel helpless, powerless, useless, and hopeless.
 
Brac-o-matic said:
You're not supposed to take teams away from areas that support and love their players like the game tonight. You just don't do it. That kind of support is what the NBA is SUPPOSED to be about. So so sad.
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Completely agree..

I can't even begin to type how sad I am.. Never will I love another team like I loved the Sacramento Kings. Never will I root for another NBA team EVER. The NBA in my book is officially the NHL.. A leage I couldn't care less about.

The Maloofs and the NBA screwed over the most loyal fans in the NBA and for that I give them the middle finger and a big F-YOU.
 
Gary said:
Completely agree..

I can't even begin to type how sad I am.. Never will I love another team like I loved the Sacramento Kings. Never will I root for another NBA team EVER. The NBA in my book is officially the NHL.. A leage I couldn't care less about.

The Maloofs and the NBA screwed over the most loyal fans in the NBA and for that I give them the middle finger and a big F-YOU.
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It would if we got a new team. If it can happen in Charlotte, it can happen here.
 
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