Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

Would love to see Allen Iverson be part of the ownership group.

 

He'd have to have money first.

 

The players would love it. They'd never have to practice.

 

The only way this team draws well beyond the first two seasons is if they start winning like they did in 2002.

If you want to move a franchise you should be required to take it somewhere where it can survive there over the long term. I don't see how that's even remotely possible here.

 

The Kings "belong" in Kansas City as much as they belong in Cincinnati or Rochester. It's the Chucky Brown of NBA franchises. Plus, KC is an oversaturated market, with a metro area of 2 million already being counted on to support MLB, NFL and MLS.

As for putting the team in the most remote area in the region, look at how well that's worked out for the Tampa Bay Rays. Not that St. Petersburg and Pinellas County are ghost towns, but it's a lot easier for a lot more people to get to Tampa, simply because they wouldn't have to cross a bridge to get there.

 

This franchise's history reminds of a line "From the Earth, To the Moon." "...this makes Jim Lovell the most traveled man in history."

 

This was a well-traveled franchise when it was in Kansas City. Kemper's roof caved in requiring use of Municipal Auditorium where Chocolate Thunder shattered the backboard.

Heck, the Kings even played a few "home" games at the St. Louis Arena/Checkerdome.

 

Aw, the Checkerdome! Memories.

Home of the 1978 NCAA Men's Final Four.

 

The idea of professional sports in that region is just kind of weird ... no doubt there's a ton of people. But they're spread out for a long stretch of 64 from Williamsburg to Hampton to Norfolk to Portsmouth to Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. The Norfolk waterfront would absolutely be more ideal for something like this, if only because the business infrastructure is already there. Building up a ... for the lack of a better word ... fake business area around an arena in Virginia Beach almost feels like the Westgate project in Glendale, which is really far removed from the rest of Phoenix.

 

Well played, sir.

 

If somebody had said a week ago... List 10 cities/areas where you think you could move a NBA team, how many people would have listed Virginia Beach?

 

The Maloofs are such poseurs, I actually want them to move to Virginia Beach and see their franchise go even more into the toilet. They are carpetbaggers who cannot even keep their word. I would love to be a fly on the wall when Stern talks to them in private about this venture because they have reneged on their word to Stern what appears to be multiple times. Maybe Stern and the NBA just force the Maloofs to slink back into their bankrupt hovel and sell to a real owner. Sacramento, though a small town, has been a tremendous supporter of the Kings (I was in Davis when they first got there) and deserve so much better than the Maloofs.