Comments on: Kings Arena Update: Critical Sac City Council meeting postponed at last minute

By: tedlinko

tedlinko — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:09:33 +0000

By the way, not to burst a whole in your Sandy Sheedy conspiracy theory, but whatever her reasons, they have nothing to do with positioning her for re-election. The reason i know this is that she just recently announced that she wasn’t running. If you were half the investigative reporter you seem to want to portray yourself as, you would have known that. It was on the front page of the Sacramento Bee the other day.

By: tedlinko

tedlinko — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:06:34 +0000

Don’t agree with the weak front office comment. Geoff Petrie is widely recognized around the league as one of the best GMs out there.

Weak ownership is more like it. Broke and incompetent.

Sacramento isn’t a high profile location for attracting marquee players. but .Oklahoma City isn’t exactly NEw York or LA either and they’re doing pretty well. It has more to do with drafting well and trading well and adding an occasional quality free agent.

It was about a decade ago but the aforementioned Geoff Petrie built one of the marquee teams in the NBA – yes right here in Sacramento.

a new arena isn’t going to suddenly make players want to come here – though it would help. But the idea is that, in combination with the new CBA, it will put small market teams on better financial footing vis a vis the large market clubs.

By: donttazemebro

donttazemebro — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:49:36 +0000

I’m convinced the Maloofs are moving them to Anaheim next year and watch,there will be something that will mysteriously emerge which will kill the arena deal.Behind the seconds you know they are working against Sacramento.Moving to SoCal is too lucrative to pass up.And if it isn’t the Kings the Hornets will fly that way soon.

By: suckafree67

suckafree67 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:43:33 +0000

@ echech88
I agree, but also taking the team out of Sac will hurt the struggling economy there then if they held onto the team.
Not only will it be home to the Kings, but other events would come in. NCAA tourney was at ARCO a few years back. So any other big time event will pump money into the local area. Unfortunatley, as always, it always involves politics. It should be about creating jobs, not who likes who or who will win votes in the later years…

By: echech88

echech88 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:36:55 +0000

I think it would be great for Sacramento if the new arena kept the team in town, but let’s not pretend the arena will radically change much in terms of Wins and Losses. If the best arena in the league isn’t going to help Dwight Howard stay in Orlando (where there is no income tax); a nicer arena isn’t going to make Sacramento much more desirable for marquee players.

The problems the Kings have faced the majority of their time in Sacramento will remain: unattractive location for players, weak front office and a dwindling local business presence to buy up ads and suites because of how anti-business the state is becoming.