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A basketball official close to the situation but unauthorized to speak publicly said the Kings' owners' "focus is still on Anaheim," and a future relocation to the Honda Center perhaps as soon as the 2013-14 season. Honda Center is getting a 20 million renovation to upgrade for an NBA team. Anaheim passed a $75 million dollar bond last year in an effort to get an NBA team. Stern said he can't & won't do anything more to keep the Kings in Sac. The bond money would payoff Sacramento. Samueli can loan the Maloofs money to relocate using the Kings as collateral promising them more luxury boxes, higher ticket prices, better attendance, increase in merchandise sold & more tv money.

The problem here, I would think, would still be how much it would piss off Sterling and Buss.

Why notsan Diego?

If they're going anywhere, I'd hope for Seattle. Anaheim seems to be what they want though.

The funny thing about the luxury box issue, is under the agreement with Samueli, so much of what they said they needed in Sac, they basically all but gave up in that deal. The luxury box thing had them getting like a small percentage or something like that. It was truly ridiculous.

san diego has no arena...so that will never happen.

two, samueli can write a fat check up to the lakers to make buss happy. samueli is in this to get a team in anaheim, at any cost.

SacKingZZZ wrote:The funny thing about the luxury box issue, is under the agreement with Samueli, so much of what they said they needed in Sac, they basically all but gave up in that deal. The luxury box thing had them getting like a small percentage or something like that. It was truly ridiculous.

Yeah, it shows there stupidity from a business standpoint or how much they really want to get out of Sac. Either way is bad for us.

Orange County is a really large market for the Lakers. It has a huge effect on the value of the Lakers as well. Much like the A's and Giants. I'd be VERY surprised if Jerry Buss didn't resist a Kings move to Anaheim. There is not enough money that would make it worth Dr. Buss's support.

This whole thing is ridiculous. Once again an owner buys a team in a smaller market, decides they can't afford to operate the team and tries to move it to a MUCH larger market. So lame.. So wrong. It's like buying a house in Rio Linda and trying to move it to Granite Bay.

Call Me Geoff wrote:Orange County is a really large market for the Lakers. It has a huge effect on the value of the Lakers as well. Much like the A's and Giants. I'd be VERY surprised if Jerry Buss didn't resist a Kings move to Anaheim. There is not enough money that would make it worth Dr. Buss's support.

This whole thing is ridiculous. Once again an owner buys a team in a smaller market, decides they can't afford to operate the team and tries to move it to a MUCH larger market. So lame.. So wrong. It's like buying a house in Rio Linda and trying to move it to Granite Bay.

He was already a major roadblock last year. It was said that he was pretty much one of the main reasons that the Maloofs didn't even force the relocation committees hand last april.

Add the upswing of the Clippers to the mix and now you have Sterling in strong opposition as well. With BOTH the current LA owners against, I just cannot ever see ANY team moving in there.

The bond to help relocate a team & the remodeling of Honda Center for the NBA I think they have a plan. Samueli didn't become a billionaire by accident. They have a ton of money over there.

But it still comes down to the Maloofs. The question is do they realize that the end result in that deal from Samueli is them losing their team? They don't want to put collateral to refinance their loan at PBP but are basically giving away their team by moving to Anaheim with even more astronomical projections expected than in this Sac deal. With business decisions like that, it's really not so hard to realize why they lost the majority of their wealth.

Hope you guys don't mind if I chip in on this discussion, as far as the two owners here in LA....

Sterling doesn't care, at least not now because he has a team that's 1 profitable and 2 marketable. He can make money off CP and Blake, he never had that in his pocket before. Even when he had the chance to move to the Honda Center years ago, he wouldn't do because he knew the novelty would wear off in a few years. Plus with the putrid teams he had in Staples before this one, he was still making money.

As far as Dr.Buss, I think he was only opposed to it then because he was in talks for the new TV deal, A third team would've lessened the amount of the deal. Now that it's done who knows what his stance is now ?