If the Kings don't move to Anaheim will you support them?

[deNIEd]

Only if the Maloofs are shot in the head and then lynched to death.

Absolutely not. What has become clear these past few weeks is that the Maloofs have been planning to move the moment they purchased some shares of the team. They have been lying to us for 13-14 years. Now the money isn't good enough for them, so they take the first chance they have to leave. They are shady as f**k. Everything they have done so far, leads to the notion that they have set up the proper arrangements to screw the city over it's loan.

There is absolutely nothing the Maloofs can do to ever get me to forgive the team.

[ICMTM]

The Kings were approached about selling the team and they did not want to sell it. They were given the option of renovating Arco ($25m) until a new arena deal was reached in Sacramento. They didn't want that.

I have a feeling the feasibility study is going to show that the Maloofs can afford to build their own arena, OR the problem with why it has not been built is because the Maloofs wanted far too many concessions to stay. To me watching the Mayor on TV last night he seemed somewhat relieved the Kings were leaving. There is a growing belief that the Maloofs are the reason public funding won't work for a new facility.

[408Kings]

From the events that have occurred its like getting back with your girlfriend after she has cheated and promises to never do it again.... Booooooooo!

LOL!! My thoughts exactly.

I love the team, hate the owners. It's a weird situation, where I want to support the team and give them the ability to sign players and improve. But at the same time, I do not want to put any more money into the pockets of the magoofs.

[SacKingZZZ]

Yeah, there really is no going back now. I don't have a huge beef with the Maloofs for who they are, but rather how they've handled their exit and that's coming from someone with no ties to the Sacramento part of it. Complete silence, complete lack of integrity, and falsifying hope when they do speak to save their own asses. You're splitting, you know it, everyone else is starting to know it, come out with it!!! If you're trying to go don't ride the damn fence with this "we love Sacramento" and "it's not a done deal and we'd love to return" bullsh*t. I don't like how the Maloofs have basically shunned the fans in Sacramento and it reeks of total wimpiness. Honestly, they really deserve for the Anaheim deal to fall through and for the city of Sac to tell them to F off. Now, as a Kings fan, I don't want that to happen because I think this team has a bright, bright future.

Other than that, I've actually gained a lot more confidence in them as owners the last couple of seasons with their ability to simply get out of the way so to speak.

[rwheeler]

THE MALOOFS CAN ROT IN HELL. I WISH I HAD TIES TO THE MOB JUST TO MAKE THEM "DISSAPEAR".

[deadenddude]

Absolutely. I'd forget this whole mess real fast if they stay. i just want to know they're still our Kings.

[gold_leader64]

I'm from Toronto. So bare with me. I'm confused...I thought Sac fans would be happy that the team might no longer leave the city..

According to reports, the Maloofs have been trying to move the team for years (since before they even were majority owners in 1998).

Can you direct me to those reports?

And the last few years, the Maloofs have been saying that they were cutting salary because they were waiting for the new CBA...but it's obvious that they wanted to get the lowest possible salary so that they could use those profits to move (easier to make a profit on a season with the LEAGUES LOWEST PAYROLL).

So, you obviously think it's a good business decision to go through a rebuilding phase without cutting costs? And you think downsizing the organization wasn't due to the economic impact, but because they wanted to squeeze every cent to move? I get you are upset, but you are stretching big time here.

[RIPskaterdude]

Go look in the Anaheim thread, I posted the links there.

[gold_leader64]

Go look in the Anaheim thread, I posted the links there.

I'm in an anaheim thread now. I browsed the other one and didn't see any news links regarding that statement.

[RIPskaterdude]

Here.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/23/sports/sp-15940

Jim Thomas, a Los Angeles developer and Sacramento's majority owner, insists he does not plan to move the team, citing the 30-year loan agreement he signed with the city of Sacramento last year. But the minority owners, the Maloof family of New Mexico, can buy out Thomas' controlling interest within five years and could consider exercising an escape clause that allows the Kings to depart without financial penalty.

The Maloofs concluded negotiations to buy into the Kings earlier this year--with Guanci as an advisor--sparking anxiety in Sacramento that the family would move the team at its first opportunity. The Maloofs deny such speculation.

The Ogden Corp., which operates the Pond, loses millions of dollars annually without an NBA tenant to play alongside the Mighty Ducks. With Irvine unlikely to attract the corporate dollars to build an arena, that mystery call could allow Ogden to grasp at a faint hope of luring the NBA tenant that would reduce and could eliminate those losses.

"If an NBA team relocates to Irvine, then they would also have a state-of-the-art arena with one franchise," Pond General Manager Tim Ryan said, "and then we'd have a dogfight over the rest of the [concert and event] dates that people want to play in Orange County.

"I don't think that makes any sense."

Of the handful of NBA teams Ogden could pursue, the Kings make the most sense. With a small media market dooming Sacramento to revenues that pale in comparison to rivals in cities such as Seattle, Phoenix and Los Angeles, a franchise move to Orange County would make financial sense. And, so long as Irvine has neither an arena nor the money to build one, the Pond makes sense should the Kings decide to look elsewhere.

And again in 2006.

Having their bid for a new arena rejected more than once by Sacramento voters, Kings owners Gavin and Joe Maloof have quietly let it be known that they'd like to relocate to Anaheim.

In Orange County, the Maloofs would be closer to their operations in Las Vegas. They already have plans to use an Anaheim location to drive their marketing for their hotel and casino, The Palms. That includes giving high-rollers use of luxury suites for Kings games and also having plenty of signage in the arena for their Vegas enterprises.

The Maloofs can easily afford the franchise transfer fee, which experts say will be at least double the $30 million the Hornets paid the league to flee Charlotte for New Orleans. But the Maloofs will face strong opposition from the Lakers and Clippers, who will fight a third team entering what they consider their backyard.

But there's an even greater roadblock. The owner of the Pond and the NHL's Ducks, Henry Samueli, has told David Stern that he wants to own a team and put it in his arena. A huge pro basketball fan, Samueli's net worth is $1.1 billion. But he'll have to wait. Stern has no plans to expand beyond 30 teams, which he said he thinks is a "fine" number.

Link is broken for that, but here is the original thread from 2006.

http://www.kingsfans.com/forums/showthr ... to-Anaheim