Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

This is beyond insane. You have people out of work and these crybaby billionaires bitching that they want theirs. Talk about out of touch.

 

Hey, at least now the Clippers will have somebody to look down on.

 

Well, to be fair, having a second team in the LA area known as the Kings probably isn't a great idea.

 

David Stern is crapping all over his legacy, which was overrated anyway and was only decvent because he happened to be in there when Jordan came into the league. Games in China, London, talk of European franchises, letting the players pretty much dictate everything (LeBron) and such. And why does the NBA have a draft lottery anyway? Should not the worst team have the top pick, second-worst the second pick, etc. Instead we have this moronic lottery done behind closed doors that is rife with speculation about rigging. Before a playoff game two seasons Stern treated the assembled media there to cover a game of the Orlando-Cleveland series to a press conference...and dodged EVERY question. The guy is slimy. First Seattle gets piped, now Sacramento. Cleveland, Toronto, Charlotte and New Orleans better watch their backs.

 

Who's the first team?

 

I am all for the lottery because we've seen teams blatantly intentially tank games for draft position.

 

But the lottery hasn't stopped that -- was it a year ago or maybe two that damn near a third of the league was in a race to the bottom for the entire final month.

 

How the hell can the NBA allow this? I mean, can't the owners/NBA block it? Makes absolutely no sense to put a new team into LA. No sense whatsoever. The NBA isn't like the NFL where people like Bud Adams and Al Davis can pack up and move at a moment's notice, is it?

 

Now, instead of one or two teams tanking to get the top pick, 10-15 of them tank to get into the lottery.

 

IIRC, teams were gagging like shit in order to get the first pick.

 

What they should do is give the #1 pick to the best team not to make the playoffs and set the order starting there -- so the worst team in the league gets the #13 pick. Then start with the playoff teams by reverse order. This would take care of the tanking issue and it would also make it so the top draft pick can have an immediate impact in getting a team over the hump, which would be huge for marketing, instead of being like Durant or Griffin toiling for a terrible team for 3-5 years.

 

What's wrong with Anaheim Kings? It's not Los Angeles.

Or, come up with an entirely different name.