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If Seattle got the Coyotes, I wonder if Vancouver would be willing to part with its Alberta buddies and form a new Pacific Division with SEA, SJ, LA, and ANA. Then move DAL to the Central, Columbus to the Southeast, rearrange the schedule format so Detroit doesn't have to play on the west coast as much and you're done.

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I thought for sure last year when I saw the Kings get lit up by Philly that it would be my last game ever. I thought no way they would stay that much longer. Thank god they are staying, and let's hope we can be competitive again very soon!

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Good to see a franchise stay in its longtime home, and better to see that the Maloofs are going to have to pay $150 million for their new building and not just have it handed to them.

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I'm still skeptical, because it is the Maloofs we're talking about here, but if this does go through without any more hang ups it's GREAT news.

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Good to see a franchise stay in its longtime home, and better to see that the Maloofs are going to have to pay $150 million for their new building and not just have it handed to them.

In all honesty I wouldn't have expected the Maloofs to actually have that much cash; as far as I could tell, I thought the main reason for them moving the Kings was that they were, well, BROKE.

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Good to see a franchise stay in its longtime home, and better to see that the Maloofs are going to have to pay $150 million for their new building and not just have it handed to them.

But they are not.

The Immediate reality is that the Maloofs will pay $75M up front and will use fees and PSLs to pay off the rest which actually comes from the public. Then there still is balance of the city loan which is still put there.

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Good to see a franchise stay in its longtime home, and better to see that the Maloofs are going to have to pay $150 million for their new building and not just have it handed to them.

In all honesty I wouldn't have expected the Maloofs to actually have that much cash; as far as I could tell, I thought the main reason for them moving the Kings was that they were, well, BROKE.

Guess reports of their destitution were greatly exaggerated. But it's also not $150 mil. It's only 70 up front, 75 from surcharges on tickets. Still it bridges the gap and completes the funding.

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If any of you guys saw the David Stern press conference this past Saturday night (on NBA TV), he and Adam Silver were asked several questions about the NBA returning to Seattle. Stern seemed pretty non-committal, and you could tell by his tone is that he could care less about Seattle getting back the NBA. He was pretty adamant, though, about keeping the Kings and Hornets (especially) in their respective cities and there would be no expansion coming anytime soon. Unless a group from Seattle swoops in at the last minute, and buys the Hornets, offering a deal that the NBA couldn't refuse, the Emerald City won't seeing NBA basketball anytime soon.

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Seattle getting the Hornets would be like the Arrested Development episode where Tobias directs the school play but keeps dicking around with the casting until Maeby ends up playing the male lead and STEVE HOLT plays the female.

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I still say the Raptors will up and leave Toronto for Seattle after this season. The NBA has NEVER had any relevancy in Canada.

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I still say the Raptors will up and leave Toronto for Seattle after this season. The NBA has NEVER had any relevancy in Canada.

Dude, their 17th in attendance and reek to High Heavens. They just lost their franchise player and have never really won anything. All that considered shows that 17th is pretty good. Not to mention that they're owned by MLSE and aren't going anywhere anytime soon. And believe me, you'd be surprised how popular the Raptors are in Toronto.

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Don't you have to buy Raptors season tickets with your Leafs season tickets? And don't the Raptors have a nationwide version of NBA TV of their own? The Raptors will forever chug along acceptably with their necessary Canadian presence, there are just too many flaws for them to ever contend.

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Is that a bit? That's a bit, right? The whole "Raptors are moving" thing? Anyway... not to be a vulture, but who's next in the pecking order? The Bucks? (Hope not, but who's left with arena issues?) Timberwolves? Or did the Vikings deal have them covered too? Also, here is a sentence that does not end in a question mark.

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MLSE has more money then G-d. MLSE owns the Raptors. The Raptors fill out ACC dates. The Raptors also draw in the crowd that can't regularly attend Leafs games, so the attendance is always solid.

The only way the Raptors leave Toronto is if MLSE sells the team, and the positives in owning them far outweigh the negatives. So the Raptors are staying put.

The only reasons for someone to continually push the idea that the Raptors are leaving are due to sheer ignorance of their situation, a dislike of the NBA in Canada that's strong enough to blind them to the reasons they're going to stay put, or they're just trolling.

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I'm going to go with the Jingoism rationale.

On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said:
You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now.
On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said:
Today, we are all otaku.

"The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert

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The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy)

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