Ricky Rubio + Sac = :)

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Here is another article talking about Ricky Rubio and his agent Fegan wanting to come to the Kings over the Grizz and Thunder. I put it through Google Translator and their are some hilarious quotes such as...

"Ricky sees the environment as a Memphis Grizzlies as a people and a nest of suckers."

"Phil Jackson said that the Kings fans were Palettes semicivilizados and the city was cow"

http://translate.google.com/transla...a/1242931598.html&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
 
Kings Faithful said:
Here is another article talking about Ricky Rubio and his agent Fegan wanting to come to the Kings over the Grizz and Thunder. I put it through Google Translator and their are some hilarious quotes such as...

"Ricky sees the environment as a Memphis Grizzlies as a people and a nest of suckers."

"Phil Jackson said that the Kings fans were Palettes semicivilizados and the city was cow"

http://translate.google.com/transla...a/1242931598.html&sl=es&tl=en&history_state0=
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I speak Spanish, and that translation is pretty brutal. I guess google translator doesn't take in idiomatic phrases very well.
 
Mad D said:
Is half a million in population really a bad thing?
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The thing is, the greater Sacramento area is roughly 3 million or so. It's the 16th biggest media market. Saying it's only 500,000 people is like saying NY is made up of only Manhattan.
 
Smills91 said:
The thing is, the greater Sacramento area is roughly 3 million or so. It's the 16th biggest media market. Saying it's only 500,000 people is like saying NY is made up of only Manhattan.
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The same thing applies to other metropolitan areas, though. The Sacramento media market is defined (by the fed) as Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado and Placer counties, with a combined population of 2.1M. Los Angeles county alone is 10.4M. Orange county is another 3.1M, etc. Compared to LA or NY, our 16th biggest market is pretty dinky.
 
Smills91 said:
The thing is, the greater Sacramento area is roughly 3 million or so. It's the 16th biggest media market. Saying it's only 500,000 people is like saying NY is made up of only Manhattan.
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It is the metropolitan population that separates Sacramento from OKC and Memphis. Neither of them have much more than the population of their immediate city.

It's like if you look south of Sac, Fresno has roughly the same population. However, there is not much else around Fresno, making it a much smaller media market.
 
Is Rubio liking Sacramento really the challenge in getting him? I would think it's working out a deal with Memphis.
 
fnordius said:
The same thing applies to other metropolitan areas, though. The Sacramento media market is defined (by the fed) as Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado and Placer counties, with a combined population of 2.1M. Los Angeles county alone is 10.4M. Orange county is another 3.1M, etc. Compared to LA or NY, our 16th biggest market is pretty dinky.
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True, however our media market is INFINITELY bigger than that of OKC or Memphis.
 
I posted these statistics in the other Rubio thread. They're from Wikipedia:

The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, has a population of 1,280,533.

Sacramento is the core cultural and economic center of its four-county metropolitan area (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo counties) with a combined population of 2,136,604
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By the way, Fresno has a huge area inside it's "city" boundaries, so technically it is the biggest city in the Central Valley in terms of population, but it's no where near the population of the Sacramento metropolitan area.

Here's Nielson's ranking of markets for the 08/09 season:

Sacramento 20th
OKC 45th
Memphis 48th

http://www.tvb.org/rcentral/markettrack/us_hh_by_dma.asp

Edit: Here's Wikipedia's population info on OKC:
The city's estimated population as of 2006 was 537,734[5], with a 2008 estimated population of 1,206,142[6] in the metropolitan area.
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i think its his agent and the memphis gm having a cordial meeting...

still come on ricky!! come over to the kings

would you like to be a bear in the woods? or a king? come on think about it!!!
 
kennadog said:
By the way, Fresno has a huge area inside it's "city" boundaries, so technically it is the biggest city in the Central Valley in terms of population, but it's no where near the population of the Sacramento metropolitan area.
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That was my point. Fresno's population is about 475,000, and Sacramanto's is about 420,000. Including surrounding areas, I would put Sacramento around 2.5 million while Fresno probably doesn't even make it to 1 million.

If Memphis is showing their metropolitan population to be around 1.2 million, it must include big area. I've been through there several times and would not have guessed at there being that many people.
 
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