I'm just putting this out there cause I just heard it on khtk. Grant Napear said that the board of governors meets apr 14th and 15th and the Maloofs have until apr 18th to file and after that a commitee has 120 days to study the application and than the owners have 30 days to vote yes or no on the move. In that time frame if the taylor group can get an arena plan in place the Maloofs can cancel there relocation request and stay in Sacramento. So bottomline the Taylor/icon group will have more than enough time to figure this out before anything with Anaheim becomes official.
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But does the committee have to take 120 days? Do the owners need to wait another 30 on top of that? 150 days is a long, long time - 5 months - and that would mean the Kings would be in limbo until mid-September. I imagine that the committee/owners can actually work faster than that if they want.
Heck, I don't want this thing dragged out that long, either. If nothing is set in stone by the time Taylor/ICON come back with a report, and that report says we can build it with the Maloofs on board (without a vote) and the city council says OK...then I would want a yes/no from the Maloofs within a week. This is stressful enough as it is.
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I think you are right. They might have that much time. However, assumiung a new CBA gets worked out, September would be WAY too late for approving a relocation. That's right before the start of training camp and after the draft and free agency.
My guess is nowadays, the owners are smart enough to do internal polling and know how the vote is going to go long in advance. If the Maloofs did not know they had the votes to make the move a reality, they would not move forward with this and risk their relationship with Sacramento fans. My assumption is they have the votes and simply need to finalize that they want to move. The meeting/vote itself is more of a formality.
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Dont forget they have this little insignificant thing they have to deal with soon, the CBA. I think that may take up just a little bit of their time.
That is why on some occasions teams are forced to play out a "dead" season in the town they've abandoned. I think that is part of why they are pursuing this right now, because if the dead season is a lockout then nothing is lost at all.
Also, it is possible to move a team a month before the season starts. NO did it in the wake of Katrina. So not entirely impossible.
