Wow! Brick, are you having a rough day? I rarely disagree with your perspective or assessments but I find have to disagree with you on this. The Maloofs are certainly quirky, perhaps eccentric, and yes a little arrogant but overall I can't think of who I would trade them for.
And why on Earth not? The traits you have just listed are everything you do NOT want in an owner. A dessicated corpse with no interest in the team at all would be 1000% times better than meddling morons who can't keep their fingers out of things. Since they don't spend anymore money than any other owner anymore, why the hell do you want the rich bumpkins blundering about messing with your franchise? Any John Doe owner who did nothing but open his checkbook and stay out of the way would be better.
The Maloofs gave the team, and quite likely Geoff, the kick it needed in the first 5 years. But since that time they have posioned their own waters. Closed the checkbooks, meddled with personal matters over their GMs head, and been a PRIMARY source of the ugly poisoning of the fanbase and Kings kingdom against their won heroes. You want the source of the ick, the scapegoating, the alienation against everything that was once good about the Kings? Go no further than the fools in charge, the spoiled children born with a silver spoon who's reaction to failure was to throw a tantrum and go look for people to blame. And that gives the hatchet jobbers like Grant license. The oh so subtle "leaks" set the Ailene Poisons to poisoning. The Maloofs stand at the heart of the ick. There is class, and they aren't it. And that makes the losing all the rougher because you have no organization you can be proud of in the abstract when the product on the floor is not up to par.
