Which leads us back to the statement that the Maloofs are out. I'm going to apply logic to the Maloofs situation, and I know that's a tricky thing to do. But there really is no incentive for the Maloofs to drag this out. They will get paid either way. If the fastest way to get paid would be to back out of the Hansen deal and take the Sac groups money, I think they'd do it at this point. But based on George's quote being retracted by a spokesman, I get the feeling that Hansen's team is pulling all the strings at this time.
The wait continues and other news, rumors, etc.
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Amen! It blows me away that when Seattle names the villains, they rarely mention George Shinn. His selfishness and stubborness forced the league to look for a different franchise for OKC and unfortunately for you, it turned to be the Sonics.
What's worse is that they had a 2nd chance to make things right and blew it again. They should've held on to the Hornets until the Seattle/Sacramento situation was done. If Sac gets it's act together then you promise to sell the Hornets to Hansen.
If Sac blows it, doesn't get an arena deal done or the whales turn out to be guppies, then and only then do you keep the Hornets in New Orleans and then allow Hansen to get the Kings.
Think about it. The league sold the team to Benson for $338 million but Hansen is offering $550 million for the Kings. There's no reason to think that he values the Kings roster over that of the Hornets so the league could've made an extra $212 million off of selling their asset to Hansen instead of Benson. If the league is really all about giving their owners money, then why the heck didn't he do what was in their best financial interest in regards to New Orleans?
What's worse is that they had a 2nd chance to make things right and blew it again. They should've held on to the Hornets until the Seattle/Sacramento situation was done. If Sac gets it's act together then you promise to sell the Hornets to Hansen.
If Sac blows it, doesn't get an arena deal done or the whales turn out to be guppies, then and only then do you keep the Hornets in New Orleans and then allow Hansen to get the Kings.
Think about it. The league sold the team to Benson for $338 million but Hansen is offering $550 million for the Kings. There's no reason to think that he values the Kings roster over that of the Hornets so the league could've made an extra $212 million off of selling their asset to Hansen instead of Benson. If the league is really all about giving their owners money, then why the heck didn't he do what was in their best financial interest in regards to New Orleans?
That's my take on this as well...they know that the vote is in doubt, and all they really want at this point is to get paid their millions ASAP. What I think is funny is that they're still acting like they're in the driver's seat, instead of crying in the back seat and asking if we're there yet. 
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It makes no sense, everything you stated makes complete sense, but again Stern loves New Orleans for whatever reason. The league has always insisted that New Orleans deserves an NBA team despite all the evidence to the contrary. We're 8 years on from Hurricane Katrina, the sentimentality of that city for basketball around the nation is gone, professional basketball has failed in New Orleans. Not only is it the 2nd smallest NBA market, its also located in football territory, in a city that is probably the poorest of any NBA city, in the smallest NBA arena and they've proven that they can't even support a team when they had the 3rd best player in league a few years back. Its pretty telling of the financial situation of New Orleans that every other team in the league has a major sponsorship deal behind the arena, yet their arena remains called "New Orleans Arena". How can you not get a major sponsor to change the name? Are there really no local or national sponsors who want to be marketing to New Orleans? I think thats quite significant. If this whole changing the name from Hornets to Pelicans still proves that nobody cares about basketball in New Orleans, they are gone in 5 years to Vancouver or whichever city. But it still remains puzzling why they allowed the team to stay in New Orleans for so long when they would have been the easy solution to all the relocation crap the last few years.
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While we are sitting here in limbo, I thought I'd share a little Jimmy Cliff song played by Jerry Garcia and friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCJ9mflho8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCJ9mflho8
Not really much here (at least a date?)
UNEDITED: George Maloof talks to News10 in New York City
http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?bctid=2310789983001
UNEDITED: George Maloof talks to News10 in New York City
http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?bctid=2310789983001
Because it's not like all of us Kings fans are going to turn into Warriors fans if we lose our team. Most of us will be turned off by the NBA all together and the ones left will probably band wagon onto a more popular team.
Personally, if we lose the team I am done with the NBA and my Kings shirts/memorabilia will go into the trash or on EBAY eventually. The only thing I will keep is my #55 purple JWill jersey with the sparkly numbers. That was my favorite jersey I ever bought and I won't be giving that away or throwing it away anytime soon.
Personally, if we lose the team I am done with the NBA and my Kings shirts/memorabilia will go into the trash or on EBAY eventually. The only thing I will keep is my #55 purple JWill jersey with the sparkly numbers. That was my favorite jersey I ever bought and I won't be giving that away or throwing it away anytime soon.
From what I have heard though is that Lacob was supposed to be in the bag along with KJ's Phoenix connection (even though Collangelo doesn't own the team anymore) I also believe we have Buss and Sterling in the bag. I think all three have been talked to privately by Steinberg anyway. So I believe we have at least 4 votes in the bag with Cuban always voting the way of the minority so that would make 5. Other than that it's a wide open field if the Kings didn't totally match, but with George's comments about accepting a Kings backup offer I have a feeling he's already let the general feeling about the Kings moving out of the bag, and I believe that it has something to do with KJ taking the redeye to NY a couple days ago.
We shall see!
No team-fanbase in the MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL have ever supported a team like we have in the wakes of actually losing our team. I think we made all the difference even though people like Napear said we would have 0% impact on the decision to leave or stay a few months back.
We shall see!
No team-fanbase in the MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL have ever supported a team like we have in the wakes of actually losing our team. I think we made all the difference even though people like Napear said we would have 0% impact on the decision to leave or stay a few months back.
The Maloofs have sent a letter to the BOG asking to go ahead with the Seattle deal: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/letter-maloofs-favor-seattles-deal-kings
They really are pathetic pond life.
Meeting is over for today with no resolution yet. Stern presser coming up shortly, can be heard here: http://betaplayer.radio.com/player/cbs-sports-1140
They really are pathetic pond life.
Meeting is over for today with no resolution yet. Stern presser coming up shortly, can be heard here: http://betaplayer.radio.com/player/cbs-sports-1140
Dave Zirin @EdgeofSports 1m The fans in Sac-Town deserve so much better than the Maloofs. Public ownership now. Seize the team, Gov. Brown!
I didn't see the ESPN article posted, and it has some additional info that the previously linked article didn't have: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/9190217/letter-maloofs-favor-seattle-deal-sacramento-kings
It seems the Maloofs are really nitpicking the two deals and are quite concerned about their former employees. Of course Hansen agreed to keep them on .. he knows most of them won't want to move to Seattle.
It seems the Maloofs are really nitpicking the two deals and are quite concerned about their former employees. Of course Hansen agreed to keep them on .. he knows most of them won't want to move to Seattle.
