Sacramento Kings moving franchise to the OC, CA.

Don't bet against Stern in any pissing match... I wonder if the Maloofs are going to try to ride this out until Stern is gone and then try again...

 

Can they ride it out? Don't they need the money now? I figured their impitus for selling was the fact that their other businesses were struggling.

 

Hansen needs to get out of this deal. He's never gonna get to move the team.

 

I can't claim to understand how this all works... But if the NBA won't let the team move to Seattle, then it doesn't matter if Hansen is offering $200 million more than the Sacramento group.

On some level, it's good that Stern is taking a hard stance on this... We'd have teams moving all over the place...

 

I get the sense that he knows that, but he wants the NBA to know how serious he is about wanting a team... Who knows?

 

I remember in one of those Scholastic kid-oriented baseball previews that I ordered as a youth that one of teams was the Denver A's.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19791106&id=LZMqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p1sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7173,1554944

 

That is the big question, but the general belief is that $125 million would be enough to get them out of debt, and then if they can run the Kings as a break-even operation they will be OK. They could also sell off other pieces of the team too as needed. That's how Al Davis kept the Raiders until he died -- he would sell 10 percent here, 20 percent there. As of now the Davis family's stake in the Raiders is only about a third, but they are still the managing partner.

 

Sac Bee columnist Ailene Voison writes the NBA must stand for integrity. LOL.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/14/5418021/ailene-voisin-nba-must-stand-for.html

 

Let us know when they start.

 

The hypocrisy at work here is delightful to watch.

 

I think the bottom line is the NBA owners are sick of the Maloofs and they realize that the $$ they'd each receive from relocation is miniscule compared to sticking it to the Maloofs who made Stern look stupid when the Maloofs killed the deal last year and the same Maloofs who have been trying to move with their hand out since 2006.