LA Times: NBA Execs believe Kings will be in Sacramento next season

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http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sacramento-nba-20110423,0,7538878.story

By the way, this is front page news on the Times website. They're hurtin' down there. Some key snippets:


Nevertheless, when Sacramento's bid came in, Anaheim became, as one official put it, "immaterial."


If Sacramento's offer stands up, the committee is expected to recommend that the Kings remain in the city for next season.


If the Maloofs still wanted to leave, they would be in the position of having to ask the same committee and league officials for approval. The only other option is the nuclear one: an antitrust suit.
 
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That is all :D
 
This isn't the end-game people. With the CBA negotiations, and the increased support from the community, this is in essence a year-long extension to get an arena. That's always been the main issue, and this isn't solving that issue. There is still hope with this, but the fight isn't over. A lot still must be done to keep the kings long-term.
 
Good job Sac!
This is just a 1 year repreive. We need to keep moving forward now that the momentum is on our side. One of the political talk stations has been talking about the financial side of the arena for a couple weeks now. There have been a lot of great ideas but the one that looks the most promising is a 3 or 4 county wide sin tax that would tax alcohol and tobacco. The counties involved would appoint 2 reps to sit on a board to oversee the arenas operation. after the arena is paid off, hopefully within 10 years, the board would oversee the distribution of any profits from the arena to the participating counties.

Along with the sin tax, an entertainment user tax should be levied on all events at arco. The users of the arena should bear the brunt of the cost of the new arena.

Lets get this moving forward people!!!
 
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Showtime said:
This isn't the end-game people. With the CBA negotiations, and the increased support from the community, this is in essence a year-long extension to get an arena. That's always been the main issue, and this isn't solving that issue. There is still hope with this, but the fight isn't over. A lot still must be done to keep the kings long-term.
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Absolutely and what I like about KJ is that he is focused on the end game. This is just a nice lead at half time.
 
Nice little tweets from Sam Amick:

"After speaking to several highly-involved sources, I would say that it's still looking very good for Sacto but no decision yet."

"It's telling, however, that there is no current plan to analyze Anaheim situation further on part of the NBA."
 
Dr. Spaceman said:
Nice little tweets from Sam Amick:

"After speaking to several highly-involved sources, I would say that it's still looking very good for Sacto but no decision yet."

"It's telling, however, that there is no current plan to analyze Anaheim situation further on part of the NBA."
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Whatwhatwhat!

If this were a Kings game in the good ole days, we'd be chanting for Wallace to come in right about now.
 
Anybody here me just get ripped apart by Grant on the the radio? I was going under the name "Jerry". Asked about downtown arena plan sparking development on both sides of the river.

He basically said how the hell can we talk about development on both sides of the river when we can't even get a simple arena built.

It's radio and it's supposed to be punchy... but man of COURSE a downtown arena would eventually spark that kind of development!
 
The Hammer said:
Anybody here me just get ripped apart by Grant on the the radio? I was going under the name "Jerry". Asked about downtown arena plan sparking development on both sides of the river.

He basically said how the hell can we talk about development on both sides of the river when we can't even get a simple arena built.

It's radio and it's supposed to be punchy... but man of COURSE a downtown arena would eventually spark that kind of development!
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Nice try, but I wouldn't worry about it. Grant seems to be in extra douchey interrupt/overbearing mode today, in spite of the good news.

If you want to look at him in a positive light, perhaps the way he's bashing on Sacramento and its chances of building an arena is some type of reverse psychology. But Grant has proven over the years that he's mostly just a big-headed, even douchier Jim Rome wanna-be.
 
You were the one talking about OK City? or the one before that?

It is too early but I think KJ can round up some people that can think outside the box and get this to work. We really need peopel like that in Sac.
 
Gary said:
You were the one talking about OK City? or the one before that?

It is too early but I think KJ can round up some people that can think outside the box and get this to work. We really need peopel like that in Sac.
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I think I was two before OKC guy.
 
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The Hammer said:
Anybody here me just get ripped apart by Grant on the the radio? I was going under the name "Jerry". Asked about downtown arena plan sparking development on both sides of the river.

He basically said how the hell can we talk about development on both sides of the river when we can't even get a simple arena built.

It's radio and it's supposed to be punchy... but man of COURSE a downtown arena would eventually spark that kind of development!
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Grant still believes they will spend money next year. He can't analyze anything and believes whatever people tell himm
 
The Hammer said:
I think I was two before OKC guy. I talked about a riverwalk and larger downtown development.
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Yah I agreed with you. I had a feeling that was a kingsfans poster calling in when I heard about the idea you said. I would have asked Grant if he thought there was any possibility that IF an arena was built that they could expand on that and do the whole Riverwalk thing following the arena being built..

Of course Grant would have said "You can't look that far into the future blah blah blah".

off topic: Looks like someone beat me to that Anaheim Royalty forums.. ROFL.. Someone made a mess of it it looks like.
 
The Hammer said:
Anybody here me just get ripped apart by Grant on the the radio? I was going under the name "Jerry". Asked about downtown arena plan sparking development on both sides of the river.

He basically said how the hell can we talk about development on both sides of the river when we can't even get a simple arena built.

It's radio and it's supposed to be punchy... but man of COURSE a downtown arena would eventually spark that kind of development!
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His point is valid though. How can you expect a city to embrace that kind of vision and level of a development project when they can't build a minor league ballpark? Not going to happen.
 
Showtime said:
His point is valid though. How can you expect a city to embrace that kind of vision and level of a development project when they can't build a minor league ballpark? Not going to happen.
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I guess so, but, one thing is the fact that that kind of commercial development is mostly private dollars. Am I completely wrong on this? What am I missing? What the city doesn't want to help pay for infrastructure around a project that will being hordes of people's entertainment dollar downtown (referring to a development of retail/restaurant/condos/giant movie theater/hotel/convention center)? Isn't that even sometimes paid for in part by the developer themselves? I guess if it's currently not developed, that's more of an investment for the city, but you'd think they'd do an economic impact study for something if we're already talking about an arena downtown... then calculate the tax revenue to be generated.
 
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His point is valid though. How can you expect a city to embrace that kind of vision and level of a development project when they can't build a minor league ballpark? Not going to happen.
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It has to start somewhere. Part of the problem is there is this whole it just can't be done attitude that permeates throughout the Sacramento region. At some point, the people, local media are going to have to break that mentality. The very fact that the multiple counties are coming together to find a solution to this arena problem is a positive and something that hasn't been done before that I can remember. If that's not a sign that something could be different, then I don't know what is.

I'm not entirely sure that the problem is that the city can't embrace a vision. It's having the right people and situation in place to make it happen.
 
None of whats going on changes the fact that we dont have 1 fortune 500 company in town. OKC has 2 and KC has 3. Sacramento is very anti business and that has to change before we can truely support a major league franchise.
 
fansinceday1 said:
None of whats going on changes the fact that we dont have 1 fortune 500 company in town. OKC has 2 and KC has 3. Sacramento is very anti business and that has to change before we can truely support a major league franchise.
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Not if the team is bought by a billionaire political player.

And also, barring even that, not if we can just get a stinkin arena built.

We get the arena built downtown, this team is good to go here for the longhaul. There was NOTHING that was making a team not viable here other than the arena issues... and there have been bad deals on that since the get go. Mostly in dealings with the city. Now we have a mayor who has shown true leadership and an amazing job at securing sponsorships and selling the team's own damn tickets, raising now over 10mil. If he leads a charge to build a downtown arena, and now there are several indications that city council members are starting to shift, the whole political environment is starting to shift, then... we're good.
 
fansinceday1 said:
None of whats going on changes the fact that we dont have 1 fortune 500 company in town. OKC has 2 and KC has 3. Sacramento is very anti business and that has to change before we can truely support a major league franchise.
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"The four-county region’s $82.3 billion of total personal income — bigger than San Antonio, and comparable to Cleveland and Kansas City, Mo. — could handle another professional team"

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/12/21/story10.html

Study done in the midst of a recession and housing crisis.
 
Livinthedream said:
"The four-county region’s $82.3 billion of total personal income — bigger than San Antonio, and comparable to Cleveland and Kansas City, Mo. — could handle another professional team"

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2009/12/21/story10.html

Study done in the midst of a recession and housing crisis.
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All that means nothing if we can't get all the counties together. Theres already one placer county sup tweeting that they will not contribute one public dollar to a sacramento arena. His tweet (name escapes me at this time) was retweeted by mark kreidler.
 
fansinceday1 said:
All that means nothing if we can't get all the counties together. Theres already one placer county sup tweeting that they will not contribute one public dollar to a sacramento arena. His tweet (name escapes me at this time) was retweeted by mark kreidler.
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There were a dozen or so politicians lined up behind KJ at his press conference the other day saying they will support the effort.

I understand what you're trying to say, but what I've been saying is that the reality of the situation does not match the perception.
 
fansinceday1 said:
None of whats going on changes the fact that we dont have 1 fortune 500 company in town. OKC has 2 and KC has 3. Sacramento is very anti business and that has to change before we can truely support a major league franchise.
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This is over used and really has little impact for the most part. Most of the fortune 500 companys dont spend on sports teams. The ones that do usually have the arena naming rights.

Oh, look at my post on this subject. Anaheim doesnt have any fortune 500 companies either.
 
fansinceday1 said:
All that means nothing if we can't get all the counties together. Theres already one placer county sup tweeting that they will not contribute one public dollar to a sacramento arena. His tweet (name escapes me at this time) was retweeted by mark kreidler.
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I thought it was yolo's Max Rexroad.http://twitter.com/MattRexroad
He was fueding this weekend with fans, CarmichaelDave, and Napear on twitter. Erased the majority of his tweets monday morning. He's an ***hole though.
 
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