NBA grants Kings extension, new deadline April 18

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The Kings have been granted an extension on the March 1 deadline to file for relocation, the NBA announces. New deadline is April 18.



It was interesting learn this past week that four teams actually filed relocation papers last year, yet none of them moved. Just food for thought.... lets keep fighting Sacramento!!!!
 
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If the Kings don't move, at best, we have only one more year. We need to support a new arena at city council meetings. I think if the Taylor-ICON group doesn't get something feasible going, we will certainly lose the team. Keeping my fingers crossed that we get that one last chance.
 
ReinadelosReys said:
It was interesting learn this past week that four teams actually filed relocation papers last year, yet none of them moved. Just food for thought.... lets keep fighting Sacramento!!!!
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I missed that, who were the teams? NO was one, I'm guessing.
 
pdxKingsFan said:
I missed that, who were the teams? NO was one, I'm guessing.
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Wrong. At any rate, the rumor was debunked by the NBA earlier in the last week or two. 4 teams requesting to move, all breaking leases in their hometowns, moving to places without arenas, etc. I don't know where this rumor came from, but it is pure garbage.
 
MDM said:
More tweets regarding a showing of intent of the Maloofs

The_Real_AK Amir Khoshnevis
@mr_jasonjones Kings have been quietly laying off most of sales staff
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

The_Real_AK Amir Khoshnevis
@mr_jasonjones Kings just laid me and other employees off bunch of boxes in the Maloof office hmmm
41 minutes ago

Then Jason Jones follows up with a possible (likely?) explanation for the additional boxes.


mr_jasonjones Jason Jones
I'm told boxes at Arco are to clean out closets for fire inspection, not moving boxes. #beeasy
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Not good at all!
 
MDM said:
More tweets regarding a showing of intent of the Maloofs

The_Real_AK Amir Khoshnevis
@mr_jasonjones Kings have been quietly laying off most of sales staff
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

The_Real_AK Amir Khoshnevis
@mr_jasonjones Kings just laid me and other employees off bunch of boxes in the Maloof office hmmm
41 minutes ago

Then Jason Jones follows up with a possible (likely?) explanation for the additional boxes.


mr_jasonjones Jason Jones
I'm told boxes at Arco are to clean out closets for fire inspection, not moving boxes. #beeasy
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Dang, this sucks. Right when we have a chance to get a new arena Anaheim is going to come in and steal our team. I really hate Samueli. REALLY.
 
Well it's pretty hard to be optimistic when the day after the fans fill he arena we get slapped down with more bad news comments from KJ and rumors of house cleaning in the Kings office. Sure they expect a lockout and all that. But there sure is a lot of smoke around for there to be no fire.
 
Actually SHC makes some sense. Some of that is exactly what some of us have been saying about the move to Anaheim so quickly. The other thing he should have included were that the Laker Time Warner deal kicks off in the 2012-13 season. Not next year. No biggie since there will be a lockout in all probability. But that is a big point. There is no 2011-2012 big windfall of TV cash up for grabs from Fox until the summer of 2012. So the Kings will have to fork out an extremely large amount of money to move. And with no huge TV deal income for a lockout season, it's a very stupid idea to move this summer. It's not saying that a move isn't possible, but much more wise to pull up and move and then be ready to play and collect revenue. It does give this town at least a chance to materialize something with ICON-Taylor.
 
JB_kings said:
Actually SHC makes some sense. Some of that is exactly what some of us have been saying about the move to Anaheim so quickly. The other thing he should have included were that the Laker Time Warner deal kicks off in the 2012-13 season. Not next year. No biggie since there will be a lockout in all probability. But that is a big point. There is no 2011-2012 big windfall of TV cash up for grabs from Fox until the summer of 2012. So the Kings will have to fork out an extremely large amount of money to move. And with no huge TV deal income for a lockout season, it's a very stupid idea to move this summer. It's not saying that a move isn't possible, but much more wise to pull up and move and then be ready to play and collect revenue. It does give this town at least a chance to materialize something with ICON-Taylor.
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But they may have already blown it. Like the article says, who in anahiem will fork out money for season tickets with a lockout looming? And who in Sacramento would pay for season tickets next year? The only way I see them keeping a majority of ticket holders is to guarantee at least 2 years in sac.
 
Section 101 said:
But they may have already blown it. Like the article says, who in anahiem will fork out money for season tickets with a lockout looming? And who in Sacramento would pay for season tickets next year? The only way I see them keeping a majority of ticket holders is to guarantee at least 2 years in sac.
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Hm, does a pending lockout make a move a better idea or worse? Seems like all the uncertainty would make it worse. Businessmen don't like uncertainty especially when they are gambling with an entire family's bank account AND some good friends' money who own the other 49%. But that's a guess. I'm not exactly a big businessman with a billion to play with.
 
Glenn said:
Hm, does a pending lockout make a move a better idea or worse? Seems like all the uncertainty would make it worse. Businessmen don't like uncertainty especially when they are gambling with an entire family's bank account AND some good friends' money who own the other 49%. But that's a guess. I'm not exactly a big businessman with a billion to play with.
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That was a point I agreed with. The waters have been kind of poisoned here though. The difference is that a move now is worse because the move fees will need to be paid now versus later. The relocation fee of 30 plus million, sorting out Arco and closing down everything, costs associated with moving the organization. If you do this over this summer, what do you have in revenue return? In this case, I think the lockout helps the team stay a bit longer.
 
Does Jason Jones write for the Bee? I saw him interviewed on Prime Ticket down here last night. Man, the dude had nothing positive to say about the Kings staying in Sac and pretty much acted like it was a near fait acompli. I was just taken aback by his lack of passion for the Kings staying in Sac. Basically said that it's the Maloofs' business and they can do whatever they want with it. I get it, but it just struck me as odd that this was coming from one of your local writers in the manner it did.

I saw where a Houston announcer said on TV that he hoped the Kings moved to Anaheim because he preferred to go there than to Sac. Fine. People need to think about what they say on TV.
 
twosomeca said:
Does Jason Jones write for the Bee? I saw him interviewed on Prime Ticket down here last night. Man, the dude had nothing positive to say about the Kings staying in Sac and pretty much acted like it was a near fait acompli. I was just taken aback by his lack of passion for the Kings staying in Sac. Basically said that it's the Maloofs' business and they can do whatever they want with it. I get it, but it just struck me as odd that this was coming from one of your local writers in the manner it did.

I saw where a Houston announcer said on TV that he hoped the Kings moved to Anaheim because he preferred to go there than to Sac. Fine. People need to think about what they say on TV.
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Jason Jones is from LA and a Laker fan.
 
Guys, so I know who Amir is. I talked to him before the season when i was buying tickets. He is a ticket sales guy. Wierd that I actually talked to this guy before the season and he was telling me kings were on the way up. and now hes layed off
 
kennadog said:
Yeah, I was just thrilled to have the Bee hire him this year to9 co9ver the Kings. Yuck. Sorry, but he cannot hide his bias favoring SoCal and the Lakers.
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Now I get it. Thanks. BTW, I've never heard of this guy. That interview was pathetic. It reminds me of a defense attorney turning into your prosecutor.
 
pupsingh said:
Guys, so I know who Amir is. I talked to him before the season when i was buying tickets. He is a ticket sales guy. Wierd that I actually talked to this guy before the season and he was telling me kings were on the way up. and now hes layed off
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That's correct.
 
twosomeca said:
Wrong. At any rate, the rumor was debunked by the NBA earlier in the last week or two. 4 teams requesting to move, all breaking leases in their hometowns, moving to places without arenas, etc. I don't know where this rumor came from, but it is pure garbage.
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One of people I heard reporting this, Mark Kriedler has since recanted. Kriedler said the NBA contacted him to say it was not true.
 
pupsingh said:
Guys, so I know who Amir is. I talked to him before the season when i was buying tickets. He is a ticket sales guy. Wierd that I actually talked to this guy before the season and he was telling me kings were on the way up. and now hes layed off
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Turnover is high among the sales ranks of NBA teams. Here's the big question for you guys . What kind of season-ticket renewal push are the Kings putting on now?

ReinadelosReys said:
One of people I heard reporting this, Mark Kriedler has since recanted. Kriedler said the NBA contacted him to say it was not true.
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Thanks for adding the source of the info.
 
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