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A little heads up 

Post#1 » by Dustin5566 » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:39 am

Small market, big heart will be shown this saturday, 4pm, on FOX40.

It is a great documentary, I have seen it and it is worth checking out if you are in to this type of thing. It chronicles the Kings time in Sacamento.
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Post#2 » by blind prophet » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:20 am

The economy of Sacramento, ranks 59th in the world.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlat ... kings.html

Sacramento is 20th highest nation in broadcast rights.
http://www.sportstvjobs.com/resources/l ... s-dma.html

We are not New York, LA, or Chicago by any means but, our market is big enough to support a single professional franchise.

Why did we sell out for 17 years or so with many terrible teams?

Why was Burkle interested?

The Maloofs got busted talking about relocation to Annaheim, way back in 1998 when they were minority owners.

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

Has been plan all along, don't let them fool you, ever wonder why they are so cheap?
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Re: A little heads up 

Post#3 » by artest420 » Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:46 pm

Why did we sell out for 17 years or so with many terrible teams?


We didn't have the Maloofs for most of it

Why was Burkle interested?


To piss off the Maloofs and maybe come up with a NBA team in the process

The Maloofs got busted talking about relocation to Annaheim, way back in 1998 when they were minority owners.


They suck, like a lot.

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


Article mentioned that Seattle is in good shape. Everything else is classic Maloof's sucking at owning a team (even before they were majority owners).

Has been plan all along, don't let them fool you, ever wonder why they are so cheap?


They got their idea from the one on the left.

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Post#4 » by SacKingZZZ » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:34 pm

Well, it's also easier to sell out when you're not getting butt raped at the box office for decent seats. The Maloofs screwed the pooch when they didn't even start cutting ticket prices until they were already 3 years into being almost unwatchable.
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Post#5 » by blind prophet » Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:31 pm

SacKingZZZ wrote:Well, it's also easier to sell out when you're not getting butt raped at the box office for decent seats. The Maloofs screwed the pooch when they didn't even start cutting ticket prices until they were already 3 years into being almost unwatchable.


yeah i agree

breakdown by year

2001 kings 4th highest payroll
http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/ ... /team/2001

2002 4th highest
http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/ ... /team/2002

2003 still at 4
http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/ ... /team/2003

bottom of league lowest payroll in 2007
http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/ ... /team/2007

so with bottom payroll by 2007, they keep the seats high in price?

and wonder why we don't sell out anymore.

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