Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

That's right, this is only an NBA issue.

Signed,

Former fans of the the Houston Oilers, LA Rams, LA Raiders, LA Chargers, Montreal Expos, original Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts, fb St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators, etc.

 

Yeah. KC built that arena to keep the Big 12 basketball tournament.

 

The NFL considers the Indy Colts' lineage to date to 1953 in Baltimore, but they also have links to the Boston Yanks, NY Bulldogs/Yanks, and Dallas Texans. And the Boston Yanks also had merged with the Brooklyn Tigers/Dodgers, who had previous moved from Dayton Ohio.

So, in the most roundabout sense, the Colts had ties to Baltimore, Indy, Boston, New York City, Brooklyn, Dayton, Dallas and, for one memorable game, Akron.

 

I checked -- Seattle is one degree of longitude west.

 

However, Atlanta is still slightly west of Detroit, which has nothing to do with this thread yet is nonetheless geographically interesting.

 

I'll say this much for the Sprint Center -- it's the second-most used arena in the nation, behind Madison Square Garden. I'll have to dig up the KC Star story, but the building is not sitting there, vacant.

 

OK, let's see, we spent 20-something pages kicking around a rumor that the team was going to move to Virginia.

How many pages does this rumor get?

 

As a resident Kings trivia geek, the Kings played between 15 and 20 home games a year in Omaha through the mid 70s. They dropped the Omaha part of the name in 1975 but played a few games here and there. I don't believe they played any Omaha games after 1978.

 

The Utah Jazz played a few games in Las Vegas in the early 1980s. That was where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers set the career scoring record.

 

OK, let me get this straight.....

They had a deal to build a new $391 million downtown arena and the owners backed out because..... they thought they could squeeze more money out of some other smuck?

Story also states no construction in Seattle area would start until after some environmental study is complete. That probably means, gee, about 2020 or so. YAWN!!

 

Are you sure it wasn't Karim Abdul-Jabbar of the Miami Dolphins?

 

Different guy, although both attended UCLA (different times). The basketball guy was Lew Alcindor and the football guy was Sharmin Shaw before changing their names.