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Bricklayer said:
Maloofs are done. Not their call anymore. Its all about the NBA now. The Maloofs have sold the team for a certian $$ figure...if the NBA signs off on it. If Sacto can match that $$ figure what is the Maloofs excuse going to be why they should get to dictate the sale? They have agreed to leave the NBA entirely. No interest. As far as dictating final results that takes them entirely out of it, and it takes any question of loyalty to fellow owners out of it for the NBA. They are no longer going to be owners.

KJ absolutely has to have a competing offer ready and quick though. And as I've mentioned, he has to sell the vision of Seattle wiht an expansion franchise, because after having come this far there is no way the NBA holds Ballmer out of the league now.

Here's what you want to do. For the NBA you want to counter Seattle vision of a $525million dollar sale, to Seattle, with your vision of $525 million to Sacramento...along with $350-$400 mil to Seattle for an expansion franchise. Ballmer himself may very well like that idea -- think about it. He saves a hundred million dollars or more.
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I only disagree on one point. If Ballmer is going to get an expansion team, then there needs to be an eastern conference expansion team for parity. So KJ will have to line up an expansion for Ballmer and some other ownership group in the east.

Hey, I hear Virginia Beach is looking for an NBA franchise.
 
How many times can a deal be "done." This is the 4th or 5th time this "deal" has been "done" in the last 48 hours.

Despite being "done" it's also managed to hit 3 or 4 "snags"

Ah, modern journalism.

The deal isn't done until we see official statements from the maloofs/hansen and the NBA.
 
UK_King said:
How many times can a deal be "done." This is the 4th or 5th time this "deal" has been "done" in the last 48 hours.
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which is why i believe 2 things to be true:

A: this deal is not "done"

B: Clearly the Maloofs ARE working to seal a deal to sell to Hansen, and its inevitably going to happen
 
Hadlowe said:
I only disagree on one point. If Ballmer is going to get an expansion team, then there needs to be an eastern conference expansion team for parity. So KJ will have to line up an expansion for Ballmer and some other ownership group in the east.

Hey, I hear Virginia Beach is looking for an NBA franchise.
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Maybe eventually, but people forget that the NBA has not always had an even numbers of teams. At various points it has been a 23 team league. A 27 team league. A 29 team league.
 
UK_King said:
How many times can a deal be "done." This is the 4th or 5th time this "deal" has been "done" in the last 48 hours.

Despite being "done" it's also managed to hit 3 or 4 "snags"

Ah, modern journalism.

The deal isn't done until we see official statements from the maloofs/hansen and the NBA.
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Agreed. In a world with Twitter/Facebook/ any social media site you can name, there's too much faulty information out in the world. Just got to keep believing if we can get a Sacramento offer somewhere close to that $525 million mark, that the NBA would keep the team in Sac. Our fanbase and city have more than proven that we want to keep the team which leaves me to believe it's all about dollars now.
 
Pretty convenient to float a number attached to a rumor, if you ask me. More convenient if it is an absurdly high number. I mean, go big or go home, right?
 
Seattle a Great Sports Town

I used to live in Seattle and went to a lot of Sonics games in the 1970s. I knew a guy that was a sports ed major. His brother played for St Bonaventure and was Bob Lanier's roommate. We went to see the Pistons with Bob Lanier at center, play the Sonics. We were under the basket on the baseline during a foul shot with Lanier at the line. My friend says "Hey Big Cat". Bob holds the ball, says "Hi, I'll see you after the game." He makes two shots. We spent about 20 minutes with Lanier and he was a quality human being. His hands were twice the size of mine and he wore about a size 19 shoe.

It would sad for the King's to leave Sacto but it might change everything to have new ownership, sad to say.
 
Spike said:
Pretty convenient to float a number attached to a rumor, if you ask me. More convenient if it is an absurdly high number. I mean, go big or go home, right?
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Fairly credible sources. Would not surprise me at all if the Maloof "want to run the franchise without owning it" stupidity was just a way to extort another $25mil from the deal to make them go away entirely. But the media types are idiots if they don't understand its not sold until the NBA says its sold.
 
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Reke 13 Havoc said:
Rob McAllister ‏@Rob_McAllister
. @MSteinmetzCSN says Hansen and Maloofs have a "handshake deal."
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The Maloof version of a "handshake" agreement...

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Rug King said:
Not that it really matters but I'd like to see them finish the year to an empty building.
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I wouldn't. I'd like to see sell outs and raucous crowds for the rest of the year with the last game being as loud as that arena has ever seen it. If the Kings are indeed leaving I'd like that to be the last memory of the Sacramento fanbase that came out to support THEIR team even as it was been stripped away from them.

I will be there to do my part.
 
ppine said:
It would sad for the King's to leave Sacto but it might change everything to have new ownership, sad to say.
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New ownership could change everything, sure. But moving the Kings to Seattle destroys everything, at least as far as the Royals/Kings franchise is concerned. Even as a Sacramento native I'd almost be okay with the move if the team would continue to be the Kings or Royals. But rebranding them as the new Supersonics means that for all intents and purposes the franchise that we all rooted for will cease to exist and it's history end in 2013.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but if the Seattle deal goes through I'd actually have preferred that they move to Anaheim.
 
funkykingston said:
New ownership could change everything, sure. But moving the Kings to Seattle destroys everything, at least as far as the Royals/Kings franchise is concerned. Even as a Sacramento native I'd almost be okay with the move if the team would continue to be the Kings or Royals. But rebranding them as the new Supersonics means that for all intents and purposes the franchise that we all rooted for will cease to exist and it's history end in 2013.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but if the Seattle deal goes through I'd actually have preferred that they move to Anaheim.
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That would mean the Maloofs still had involvement in the NBA. There is NO way I want that to be true, regardless of where the Kings end up.
 
VF21 said:
That would mean the Maloofs still had involvement in the NBA. There is NO way I want that to be true, regardless of where the Kings end up.
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Lesser of two evils in my view. Yes, the Magoofs would still have a team and they would have taken them from Sacramento, but at least my team still exists to root for AND it's in California vs my team disappearing entirely so that the Supersonics can exist again. I've long since rooted for the Kings while hating the Maloofs, I could continue to do that with the Anaheim Royals. But the Supersonics are Seattle's team, not mine.

But I am still hoping that KJ can put together an ownership group to match the money the Maloofs would get from the Hansen/Ballmer deal and the NBA will side with the team wanting to keep the franchise where it is.

I think Seattle deserves an expansion franchise. But we deserve our Kings.
 
VF21 said:
That would mean the Maloofs still had involvement in the NBA. There is NO way I want that to be true, regardless of where the Kings end up.
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The Kings are no longer the Kings when/if they move to Seattle. It doesn't have to be Anaheim. If the Kings HAD to be sold/moved, just not Seattle. I rather it be Kansas City, Kentucky.. anywhere where at least the history of the team continues just like when the Royals moved to KC.

Seattle is that one specific hell of a situation where they want to wipe the Kings off clean as if it is an expansion team and throw it back in the city and continue their Supersonics history.

I'm sorry, but I can't continue to justify "Seattle deserves a team" because the only team they really deserve is the original Sonics team that they loss or an expansion team. They can either go after Clay Bennett the slim ball or they can wait and continue to work with Stern/Silver for an expansion team.

It is extremely ridiculous to allow Seattle to buy a team from another city and whip away that team's history. It is unfair to all the fans in Sac, KC, Cincy and around the world that ever cared about the Kings.

Just for discussion, lets pretend the Celtics were the only team for sale and hansen offers to buy the team for a very large amount of money to move to Seattle where they will wipe off the history of the team and make it back into his childhood dream "Supersonics".

Would the NBA allow that? Would the owners vote approve or disapprove? How come it's ok to let it slip by because the Kings are not as storied a franchise as certain teams? Fans, regardless of team association should deserve the same amount of respect and consideration.
 
Tetsujin said:
He wouldn't have enough to buy on his own but could be a part of a group that does. Burkle was looking for a local partner
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I'm just happy someone finally came forward. 1 Mastrov won't be enough as you said. But team him up with Burkle and a few others? We might have something cooking here
 
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