Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

Would this allow you to see otherwise? From the link:

"We are treating this story differently than we would most news stories," Crandell said. "Call it activist journalism, call it whatever you want. I just think that there is too much negativity about the team, and this plan is a way to keep them here and it's time we all stopped talking about Anaheim and looked at a last-ditch effort to salvage this."

 

I'll call Crandell a blowhard, but does anyone expect more from TV>

If government is involved as rumored, every media outlet should be requesting e-mails and phone records from every elected official in the county and the city.

Joe Maloof said he hasn't heard from the ex-owners of the team in a while. I don't know what they think they can accomplish with no public appetite to spend tax dollars on an arena.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/sports/kings/archives/2011/03/kings-owner-no.html

 

LA Times reporting Anaheim to sell $75M in bonds to attract team ... but Anaheim has to be team's first name:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sacramento-anaheim-20110326,0,4293244.story

 

Oh I don't know. Maybe because he got traded from KANSAS CITY to MILWAUKEE? You know, two of the eight teams to not make the World Series since 1990? This would be like Chris Paul getting traded from New Orleans to Milwaukee. Not quite like LeBron, et al, being steered to a major market powerhouse.

Seriously, did you really wonder why there was no outrage over Greinke going to a similar market?

Cute. I like your selective choice of leagues (three majors as opposed to four), so that you conveniently ignore the NHL, which cemented its status as a niche sport with the year-long work stoppage. And I never said MLB was turned to rubble. You said that. If you're going to quote me, do so accurately, and please try harder.

 

One of our reporters is a Sacramento native and WAS a huge Kings fan.
He said with the Kings leaving, the NBA is dead to him. I feel bad for him because it gives me an idea of what Dodgers fans went through when they left Brooklyn.

 

i.e., straight into the Maloofs' pockets.

$75 million sucked out of the bond market that now can't be used for anything else.

Awesome.

 

I thought the reason Anaheim was so attractive was that it was ready to go for hoops. I have no idea what they would spend the $75 million on.

 

Better locker rooms, training facilities and, perhaps, a practice facility. But they could use American Sports Center, which is a few blocks away and is fantastic, in the meantime. So about two-thirds of that would go to the Maloofs for moving expenses, i.e. couple thou for some moving vans and the rest in the Maloof's pockets.

 

So why did DON Stern steer Lebron to Miami and not New York? No matter where James signed you would said the same thing. To compare basketball to any other sport is ridiculous, 1 player in basketball can change you from a 15 win team into a playoff team, that can't happen in any other sport. We get it you hate Stern and the NBA.
The champioship analogy is also ridiculous, cumulative records is a much better way to judge team success.

 

Look, the NBA has had dominant teams and a bunch of also-rans FOREVER. From 1959-1969, when there were NO large markets of any kind in the league and it lived a very hand-to-mouth financial existence, the Lakers and Celtics met in the Finals almost every year. That wasn't economics, it was Russell, Cousy, Havlicek, West, Baylor, etc. Dominant players win NBA titles, and there are only so many dominant players in the league at any time. I don't believe there has EVER been an NBA championship team without at least one Hall of Famer on the roster.

 

Possibly the 2004 Detroit Pistons.