Sacramento Kings most likely moving to Seattle..

No Seattle fan should wish to steal a team the way their team was stolen from them...

The NBA should expand, hands down. There's so much fucking Basketball talent out there, and the teams are pretty damn small to begin with... They could grow to like 40 teams and be successful as shit...

So many cities that deserve a basketball team... Seattle is at the top of that list.

...but Sacramento has fought tooth, nail, fucking 3rd rib, and broken tibia for this shit... HERE WE FUCKING STAY PUT GOD DAMNIT.

 
To the Sonics Faithful

While we are disappointed with the relocation committee’s recommendation, we just wanted to let you all know that we remain fully committed to seeing this transaction through. As you are all well aware, we have a binding transaction to purchase the Kings for what would be a record price for an NBA franchise, have one of the best ownership groups ever assembled to purchase a professional sports team in the US, have clearly demonstrated that we have a much more solid Arena plan, have offered a much higher price than the yet to be finalized Sacramento Group, and have placed all of the funds to close the transaction into escrow. As such, we plan to unequivocally state our case for both relocation and our plan to move forward with the transaction to the league and owners at the upcoming Board of Governor’s Meeting in Mid-May.

When we started this process everyone thought it was impossible. While this represents yet another obstacle to achieving our goal, I just wanted to reassure all of you that we have numerous options at our disposal and have absolutely no plans to give up. Impossible is nothing but a state of mind.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ―Muhammad Ali

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No... Sweet revenge would be if you got the Grizzlies back.

anyways.. this .gif sums up what just happened pretty damn well...

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I live in Seattle and I am so sick of all this self-righteous bullshit, as if we wouldn't have been doing to Sacramento exactly what OK did to us a few years back. Don't get all pissy because Sacramento just accomplished what we tried to do, except not enough people here gave a shit.
 
much more solid arena plan, eh?

Sacramento has theirs fully approved (twice over, in fact) and are ready to start digging as soon as the transaction to the new ownership group is put in place... The only reason why this has even gone on this long is because the Maloofs backed out of the first one, because they are bad with money...

much higher offering price? Sacramento's group has equaled that price, bro... and the group is also finalized.. fyi...

and you want impossible? it was first and goal, and Sacramento had to defend... against two different relocation attempts... it's now 4th and goal, and the relocation attempt is in mid-sack...

I want Seattle to have a team... but not at the expense of Sacramento's one and only, or any other city for that matter. Seattle had to go through that shit already. It's bogus... and I hope the NBA decides to stop being a jerk and expand as they should have 10 years ago.
 
I think Seattle gave a shit, but didn't think relocation would actually happen... Sacramento knew for years they were against the firing squad... and saw what happened to Seattle AND Vancouver.. did NOT want to suffer the same fate, especially at the expense of their ONE AND ONLY TEAM. Hence, much larger rallying cry.
 
I also live in Seattle and nobody really knew that r team was going to be going to OK. So u know wat fuck California and there 3 teams
 
Well, it's actually 4 teams (two in LA) but that whole "CALIFORNIA HAS SO MANY TEAMS! WE SHOULD TAKE ONE FROM THEM! argument is fucking stupid...

How about deduct it population-wise. California has 38 million people, is larger than Canada and Australia, and has suburbs larger than what are considered 'huge' towns in the Northwest... It's effectively 10 Oregons in population.

By that measure, it's a wonder California doesn't have like 10 teams... Northern California by itself could have about 4, easy. The Bay Area alone (which doesn't count Sacramento) has a larger population than ALL of Washington State. Sacramento's Metro area alone is only like a million less than the Population of Oregon. Add those two together, and some other bits and pieces in the Central Valley (which from Shasta Lake to Fresno is pretty much all Kings territory) and you have basically the entire population of the Northwestern states and then some...

You want to steal a team? Steal the Clippers. I'm surprised they even have fans what with all the Laker ball gaggery...
 
i'll go out and say that the kings will move long before the clippers, given that the clippers had twice as many wins and half was many losses as the kings last season.for reference:

clippers went 56-24

kings went 28-54
 
LMAO. Yeah, last season is a totally awesome indicator for why teams should/should not move.

The Kings were one of the best if not THE best team in the league a good chunk of years, made the playoffs 7 straight seasons, and reached the Semis before some controversial things happened and lead to the lakers shooting an obscene amount of free throws (same thing happened to portland the year before) but I won't get into that. The Kings sold out every single basketball game from when they moved to town until like 2007 or something, and only Boston and Portland have longer streaks. Those fans sat through years upon years of no playoffs, terrible luck, constant coaching changes, career ending injuries and the worst draft picks ever, and still sold out games...

The Clippers have been to the playoffs a whole SIX TIMES since they moved to LA (which was a year before the Kings ended up in Sacramento), have never won a conference, much less a division championship (until this season OH MY..), and haven't even been past the 2nd round in their entire history as a franchise... They didn't even have a winning season until the 1990's... Fans of the Clippers are usually either fans because they couldn't afford laker tickets, or they are just the most masochistic in the league. They basically INVENTED wearing a paper bag over their head due to absolute mediocrity, and using last season, which was the best they ever had, as a litmus test for which one should go is absolutely silly. If Donald Sterling actually wanted to move them out of LA, it would be just about the easiest possible task any owner would have in relocating a team they own... In fact, the only reason the team didn't end up playing in another city, is because he was so steadfast on them playing in Staples...

This team would murder any Clippers team ever assembled...

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(and that wasn't even their best)
 
didn't even read because you wrote a goddamn novel, but haven't the kings had like the lowest attendance to games for like 5 years straight?
 
also, this is from 2001. don't argue a team being good by a season they had 12 years ago. hell, they haven't had a "winning" season since the 05-06 season. AND they haven't won a final since like 50-51 season
 
read: "big shot bob couldn't be stopped"

that sports illustrated cover just reminded me how many fucking 3 point contests peja won (or at least seemed to have won, i dunno how many it really was)...the man could shoot
 
Gus. See the year 2002. Best regular season record in the league, and based on the Donaghy controversy... had games fixed against them that would have put them in the finals.

Whether that was true or not, the Kings sure as fuck could have been seen as the best team in the league that year... whoever won that series was going to clobber New Jersey.

 
That's because the Maloofs have severely worn out their welcome, and the fans don't really feel like giving them money if they're going to just sell the team off to Anaheim or Seattle or Mars... go back before that and they posted 100% sellout seasons every year for like a decade.
 
Actually, I think it was only two or something, but every fucking night was a damn three point shootout for him.

Dude was stupid accurate.
 
well it looks like seattle is not getting a team, i never really wanted the kings. they just need to expand, seattle is such a big market for sports. sounders/seahawks are sold out almost every game. mariners would be if they would actually win some...

stern has said seattle is one of the great sports towns and deserves a new team, unfortunately he also said they wont be thinking about expansion until he retires -___-
 
I'm in Seattle and I dont give two shits about the NBA. Before we get a new sports team, how about a mass transit system.
 
there are a lot of fans who only got upset/followed the sonics once they left, those people bother me greatly. they probably had know idea about the sonics history/how good they once were.

there are a few in seattle (when i say a few i mean a boat load) that really loved the sonics and all the great players that have come through.
 
you sound incredibly stupid with this post. you're making it out to be that the city of seattle is buying an nba, when in reality it's a private investor(s)
 
The attention this gets is ridiculous compared to the actual problems this city faces. And though the team purchase is private, paying for the new arena would cost taxpayers $200 million, so no, my point stands.
 
And despite the fact that winning seasons have been few and far between, we've 100% sold out 19 of 27 seasons in Sacramento. With several more coming in around 85-98% sold out.
 
3/4 of the $800 million/$1 billion in cost is being paid by private investors. i'm not sure you know the scale of costs that transport projects cost
 
So you're ignorant to how bad it is there? Not a day goes by that I don't call friends there who aren't downright fed up with the ridiculous commute. It's borderline Bay Area - bad...
 
well i don't live IN seattle and i realize its bad, but the revenue generated from the arena being an NBA/NHL home, along with various taxes as a result of SoDo Arena (i.e; hotels, car rentals, etc.) will vastly outweigh the initial money put into it by the public
 
dont get me wrong i love seattle and the seatown sports teams. i still live in wa just a little farther north.

also i heard the microsoft ceo or whoever proposed the buy out owns some land downtown by the other arenas where he proposed they build the arena but it would cause way to much traffic with the port that the city was poo pooing the idea of that spot for the arena.
 
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