Comments on: Report: Maloof family near deal to sell Kings to Hansen’s Seattle syndicate

By: jprcox

jprcox — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:06:12 +0000

5 teams???..I count 3 at most.

The cap needs to be enforced like the NFL – not just a tax.

By: glink123

glink123 — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:51:15 +0000

Steve Ballmer can give you 15 billion reasons why this deal is a slam dunk. Zero chance of this not getting done.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:47:00 +0000

You must be as old as I am. The Royals, who played less than two miles from where I lived, were run even more poorly than the Kings are now.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:34:11 +0000

It’s been tried. When the Cincinnati Royals were sold, it was to be the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, with some home games in St. Louis. The latter quickly fell off the list, and Omaha was abandoned soon after that.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 03:32:23 +0000

Yeah, but remember, Sacramento got its team at Kansas City’s expense. KC screamed, but conveniently forgot that they got the team at Cincinnati’s expense. Cincinnati screamed, but conveniently forgot that they got the team at Rochester’s expense.

By: BigBeachBall

BigBeachBall — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:12:49 +0000

Seattle gets a hard-on whenever they see alliteration:

Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Sounders
Seattle Storm

Keeping the kings name is unlikely if the seattle group gets the franchise….imo

By: kw27p

kw27p — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:56:52 +0000

The NBA is a terrible overall product. What only about 5 teams can actually win the title. How is this competitive? Its the most predictable league in all sports.An absolute joke.

By: fm31970

fm31970 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:18:27 +0000

I bet the NBA owners only approve this deal if the Maloofs are left out COMPLETELY. Stern doesn’t want the Maloofs involved in any way, shape, or form regarding anything NBA related.

I have to wonder if the NBA is kicking a few million to help make the Maloofs go away, and really, can you blame them?

I’m still not convinced this approval is a slam dunk, though. $500M is a lot to turn down, but there is still some negotiating to do. Name your price Maloofs, as long as you are cut off for good.

By: raidmagic

raidmagic — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:45:46 +0000

How do they get to stay minority owners when they are selling the team for 500 million? Anyone want to buy my house for a million dollars? I get to stay on the deed.

By: roeski

roeski — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:32:58 +0000

you’re*

By: roeski

roeski — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:21:16 +0000

Taking Clay’s faults out on us is ridiculous. OKC fans have not “mistreated” Sonics fans and I’m tired of your mouths. We had nothing to do with the way it went down. Now your taking someone elses team, hypocrites. I hope Sac fans deface you as much as you have us. #Thunderup

By: blueintown

blueintown — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:20:37 +0000

Not sure an “explosion of Starbucks shops” is unique to OKC, brother. There’s one on every corner.

By: badintent

badintent — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:20:33 +0000

|They got beatdown in the recession in their Vegas casinos,plus inter -family fighting after the old man died over the $$$, the bimbi wanted to cash out so they could go shopping on Rodeo Drive. Perfect Storm of $$$ crashing.

By: badintent

badintent — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:15:56 +0000

NY hates Cowgirls more than we hate Chicago. But everyone does hate LA , what’s not to hate ? LOL But we do hate Red Sox much more than Angels.

By: badintent

badintent — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:10:18 +0000

You damn right ! anyone that thumbs down is either an idiot or a liar.
Shultz was denying from day one that the team wojuld be moved, which meant he knew what the cards were and how they would be dealt. And Stern was on board on day 2.As a lawyer, his first job for his client, Clay was to lie.Gary Payton was a great trash talker on the court but his rants about Seattle getting hosed on that deal are real. The Key Area BS was just all that. The team had Both strong corporate and public support for steady revenues. Clay is a redneck farmer with great pollitical connections for his team in OKC.One only needs to look at the explosion of Starbuck shops in OKC to see the real deal that Howard and Clay put together.I have nothing against the good folks of OKC, they deserved a new NBA team, not Seattle’s

By: blueintown

blueintown — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:09:58 +0000

Simple economics is so much more difficult to conceptualize than “the league is fixed and David Stern is trying to destroy my village”.

By: 13datsyuk13

13datsyuk13 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:48:23 +0000

Don’t worry kings fans you can have your franchise back in 10 years. Seattle fans won’t support a losing team and it will take that long for the new to wear off. Sorry about your loss.

By: jayquintana

jayquintana — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:45:19 +0000

Darn, what happened with the Maloofs? How’d they lose their money? Was Antoine Walker their financial adviser?

By: borderline1988

borderline1988 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:33:29 +0000

I don’t understand the whole pitying the fans thing.

If a team is losing money, it should move. This isn’t the fans’ team, somebody actually owns the team. That person has to be making money or ponying up money to support the team.

What else is there to say? If you live in a small market and can’t support a professional sports team, root for the nearest city. Or move.

By: Jackson Scofield

Jackson Scofield — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:27:00 +0000

Already taken by a new women’s soccer team

By: blueintown

blueintown — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:20:55 +0000

Watch it, mungman. The people who frequent this site don’t take kindly to economic logic.

By: ss3walkman

ss3walkman — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:14:12 +0000

As a Seattle resident I hate to get a team this way. Although it is a different situation than Sonics to OKC I still wish we were getting a team from scratch.

I don’t want the Kings to become Sonics. But if so I would like for them to keep the name Kings or start with a new name in general.

My favorite team of all time will be Bibby, Christie, Peja, Webber, Divac and Bobby J off the bench. The match between them and Lakers in the playoffs was legendary.

Oh yea, we didn’t know Clay was going to move the team to Oklahoma

By: dannymac17

dannymac17 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:10:30 +0000

Woah Woah Woah

LA hates everyone cause they are a spec on the testicles of a gnat compared to us.

We don’t care about Boston. Thats a town full of losers.

By: shaolin916

shaolin916 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:05:36 +0000

If this deal goes down it will be absolutely devastating to the sacramento region. Our economy has taken a huge hit and Kings basketball is one of the few things people around here can have pride in (although the maloofs have put a losing product on the floor for the past six seasons, you wouldnt tell for how passionate kings fans are). Sacramento doesnt have any other sports teams! The kings are all we have, and winning or not we need them!

I pray that ron burkle can come in at the buzzer keep OUR team in OUR city!

SACTO

By: jshawaii22

jshawaii22 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:53:17 +0000

do we get KD back? without him who would want to go to the game?

By: makeham98

makeham98 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:45:18 +0000

Having a team share home games between two smaller markets is a novel idea. They could be renamed the Kansas City-Omaha Kings. Can’t miss. Cincinnati Royals fans agree.

By: mungman69

mungman69 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:43:31 +0000

Small market teams just have trouble making money. There just isn’t the money in Sacramento that there is in LA.

By: beagle11

beagle11 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:43:25 +0000

I didn’t realize Chicago and NY were small markets. I was thinking more along the lines of a KC/St Louis Partnership. It solves the problem of giving smaller cities a chance to root for a home team without the pressure of filling a building 41 times a year. It could also potentially double the television market and revenue for a smaller market team. Think about it; St Louis/KC, Toronto/Montreal, Sacto/Vancouver

By: hstrymkr18387

hstrymkr18387 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:43:15 +0000

I’m a Seattle fan and this is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. Do I feel ill? No way. California has 4 basketball teams! Losing 1 of those 4 is NOT THE SAME as an entire state/region losing their team. Sonics were rooted on by the whole state of washington, plus montana idaho and canada. Lucky for Sacramento fans they still have Golden State, Clips and the Lakeshow. Still sucks, but dont even try to compare it to Washington losing the Sonics. That was exponentially worse

By: cosanostra71

cosanostra71 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:40:09 +0000

nice. Reign Man!