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And P.S. I saw that Sac is catching flak for having "only" 12,286 show up Wednesday for their last-place team. See how that NBA PR machine works? Can't announce a move the day after rally/sellout, but they are already building their case two days later, using the attention the loyal fans drew to Sacto on Monday against them on Wednesday. The national media is too easy to manipulate.

By the time mid-April comes they'll have a lot more people convinced it was the "right" move, even though it seems to be a foregone conclusion already that they are moving to Anaheim.

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If the only way they can stay in Sacramento is by shaking down the taxpayers for money that they don't have, then they have to go. I must be consistent here. However, I don't think Anaheim is a good idea, and I can see the owners having reservations about it. Donald Sterling is going to hate it, and if he hates it, his buddy Jerry Reinsdorf is going to help him hate it. And if Jerry Reinsdorf hates it, legions will emerge from the woodwork who also hate it, and before you know it the league will be in court again over a move and you'll have everyone filing amicus briefs on why the NBA in Anaheim will make the entire sports world collapse.

If the team goes anywhere, it should go to Kansas City, but it shouldn't have to go anywhere because I'm not buying the obsolesence of a 22-year-old arena.

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Arco is the only arena in the NBA still made with wood. It was built outside of the city on the cheap purposely by the last owner. So it's pretty obsolete, not because of it's age, but how it was built.

Anaheim doesn't make sense from the perspective of a fan-pundit who would prefer to see teams spread out and from the logical perspective of "you have newer arenas cropping up in Vancouver, already one in Kansas City and so why move to a place with two teams within an hour drive in traffic?" But then you realize the Maloofs make it clear they're never going to sell the team and that basing the team in LA would just make it easier for them since they live between LA and Vegas, this move is essentially about minimizing their losses, getting to a better building than they one they're in and cutting their losses from where they are now; with the added bonus of being able to hop a quick flight on the jet to their games each night and calling it good.

So it's completely illogical and totally logical at the same time. The Clips were never moving to Anaheim, because their owner doesn't want to do it. The Ducks owner wants another tenant in that building, he might have found one and so...seems if a team is going to move there it might as well be one that's already in the state.

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If the only way they can stay in Sacramento is by shaking down the taxpayers for money that they don't have, then they have to go. I must be consistent here. However, I don't think Anaheim is a good idea, and I can see the owners having reservations about it. Donald Sterling is going to hate it, and if he hates it, his buddy Jerry Reinsdorf is going to help him hate it. And if Jerry Reinsdorf hates it, legions will emerge from the woodwork who also hate it, and before you know it the league will be in court again over a move and you'll have everyone filing amicus briefs on why the NBA in Anaheim will make the entire sports world collapse.

If the team goes anywhere, it should go to Kansas City, but it shouldn't have to go anywhere because I'm not buying the obsolesence of a 22-year-old arena.

Normally I would agree, but Arco is the exception to the rule. That place is an absolute dump. Despite it being younger than I am, it reminds me of the last version of Yankee Stadium right towards the end but without the historical positives.

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This used to be a good forum. CC's a great guy but for the last few years nitwits have taken over the discourse. Now it's hardly worth reading much less posting @. Seriously guys, grow up, unplug, get laid, get lives. I DID. :angered:

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And P.S. I saw that Sac is catching flak for having "only" 12,286 show up Wednesday for their last-place team. See how that NBA PR machine works? Can't announce a move the day after rally/sellout, but they are already building their case two days later, using the attention the loyal fans drew to Sacto on Monday against them on Wednesday. The national media is too easy to manipulate.

By the time mid-April comes they'll have a lot more people convinced it was the "right" move, even though it seems to be a foregone conclusion already that they are moving to Anaheim.

Can't really blame the press though. Sac fans made it clear they wanted to "fight" for their team with all the lead up THEY created on Monday. However it was a flash in the pan kind of thing and Wed proved that. Back to our pitiful normal move justifying attendance.

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Donald Sterling is going to hate it, and if he hates it, his buddy Jerry Reinsdorf is going to help him hate it.

Don't forget Sterling's other buddy Jerry Buss, who can't be too pleased that another team is trying to steal the Lakers' Anaheim market share.

Oh, Buss and Sterling get along? I figured they had the enmity typical of crosstown owners. If they're both significant power brokers in the league, the Maloofs aren't going to get the rubberstamping that Flat-Top Clay and the Purple Canoes got when they moved the Supersonics. How many 'yes' votes does it take to approve a relocation in the NBA? 20? Might be tough.

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Donald Sterling is going to hate it, and if he hates it, his buddy Jerry Reinsdorf is going to help him hate it.

Don't forget Sterling's other buddy Jerry Buss, who can't be too pleased that another team is trying to steal the Lakers' Anaheim market share.

Oh, Buss and Sterling get along? I figured they had the enmity typical of crosstown owners. If they're both significant power brokers in the league, the Maloofs aren't going to get the rubberstamping that Flat-Top Clay and the Purple Canoes got when they moved the Supersonics. How many 'yes' votes does it take to approve a relocation in the NBA? 20? Might be tough.

16. Only need a simple majority and they're expected to get it. Plus, technically, the Clippers and Lakers have no actual territorial rights to the area that can be enforced to keep the Kings out. However the league can set any relocation fee which expected to go to the Clippers and Lakers.

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And P.S. I saw that Sac is catching flak for having "only" 12,286 show up Wednesday for their last-place team. See how that NBA PR machine works? Can't announce a move the day after rally/sellout, but they are already building their case two days later, using the attention the loyal fans drew to Sacto on Monday against them on Wednesday. The national media is too easy to manipulate.

By the time mid-April comes they'll have a lot more people convinced it was the "right" move, even though it seems to be a foregone conclusion already that they are moving to Anaheim.

Can't really blame the press though. Sac fans made it clear they wanted to "fight" for their team with all the lead up THEY created on Monday. However it was a flash in the pan kind of thing and Wed proved that. Back to our pitiful normal move justifying attendance.

Not blaming the media, just saying the NBA knows how to play that game. The fans had a focused rally for the last home game before the deadline, and they were passionate and got a lot of press. How does the NBA avoid the PR nightmare of moving the Kings to Anaheim the next day? They moved the deadline to file and basically said, "Okay, Sacto, sell out the rest of the season now or we'll point at your empty seats."

From a Kings fan's perspective, they can only shrug. They gave a great effort and got no closure on March 1 as expected. They weren't going to mobilize in any organized fashion just two days later, so the usual crowd showed up, or maybe a few less because they had worked their schedules around can't-miss Monday.

The story shifts fast, that's all, and the NBA and the Kings can control the message a lot more easily than the fans.

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Louisville? St. Louis? Anything but Anaheim :( Teams from Anaheim just don't feel legit.

Going to Louisville is just like going to Charlotte (2x) and Memphis. That area is too vested into college hoops for a team to be profitable long term. Charlotte still has not turned a profit since 2007 and Memphis has only had a positive variance once in the past decade.

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Oh, Buss and Sterling get along? I figured they had the enmity typical of crosstown owners.

No, Buss got Sterling into the real estate business and then convinced him to buy the Clippers.

...and Sterling bought much of, if not all of, Buss' apartment buildings he owned in the Westside so Buss finalize the purchase of the Lakers, Kings, and the Forum.

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Louisville? St. Louis? Anything but Anaheim :( Teams from Anaheim just don't feel legit.

Yea, 2 teams in different sports winning championships within the last 10 years doesn't feel legit at all.

Anaheim teams are surrounded by people who have a ton of disposable income, in (or very close to) one of the top 5 largest media markets in the US and are surrounded by some of the most prized real estate in the world (not to mention that the weather is a dream compared to almost everywhere else in the world)

If you were an owner of ANY professional sports team, you'd be a fool not to take advantage of an opportunity to get into Anaheim.

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