Billups

[gold_leader64]

Build it...and they will come. It doesn't work the other way around. They don't come before you build it. Also big cities are over rated. Nobody wants to go to a losing team just because they were in a big market.

"Here's your manhattan suite sir, we will be expecting you at the garden in a few hours. Afterwards, there is a VIP party at the hottest club full of celebs and women, and you are invited."

"Enjoy miami sir, with it's beaches, clubs, and no state income taxes."

"Welcome to Natomas."



These are 20-30 something millionaire men, not some fan who watches the games from the upper deck with a wife and kid.

The Knicks have sucked since Allan Houston has been on the shelf. Really? What have the Knicks won in the last 20 years? They went to the finals in the strike shortened season and that has been it.

I never said the Knicks have won a lot. I'm saying that your point about location being irrelevant is an incorrect one. There's a reason why the larger market teams happen to be the ones who attract most of the talent. Stop acting like the Big 3 would have assembled in Ohio.

[bibby1023]

if we got both billups and hayes i would be ecstatic! that's the exact vet leadership we need on this team.

...if they were a playoff team already.

Since when do you have to be a playoff team to have good vet leadership. If you mean that's the only way we'd get Billups, if we were a playoff team then ya I agree.

[gold_leader64]

Looks like NY will use the amnesty clause on Billups. Should we put in a bid for him. He could be a great mentor for Jimmer and provide this club with some leadership.

Do people who are kings fans even know wtf is going on outside of Sac? Billups will only play for a contender, or retire. There's no way he comes to Sacramento.

[gold_leader64]

if we got both billups and hayes i would be ecstatic! that's the exact vet leadership we need on this team.

...if they were a playoff team already.

Since when do you have to be a playoff team to have good vet leadership. If you mean that's the only way we'd get Billups, if we were a playoff team then ya I agree.

Billups won't play for an unproven team. We agree. /argument.

[tru6playa]

Do people who are kings fans even know wtf is going on outside of Sac? Billups will only play for a contender, or retire. There's no way he comes to Sacramento.

Your disdain for Sacramento is well documented. Give it a rest...no wants to hear your inane babble. Or go to the Anaheim Kings board...oh wait...

[dozencousins]

Who really cares what Billips says If we go after him and get him he has two choices .

1. Play for us at least 1 season .
or
2. He can retire


I would never let a player dictact to me weather to claim him or not . At the very least if it wasnt working for whatever reason you could trade him at the deadline for another player or a draft pick.

[gold_leader64]

Do people who are kings fans even know wtf is going on outside of Sac? Billups will only play for a contender, or retire. There's no way he comes to Sacramento.

Your disdain for Sacramento is well documented. Give it a rest...no wants to hear your inane babble. Or go to the Anaheim Kings board...oh wait...

My disdain is for ignorant kings fans who have no idea what is going on in the league. I've seen it at multiple sites. I'm a kings fan, in Norcal, and it disgusts me how so many can be passionate about the game and know nothing about what's going on in the league. Fans who, after hearing about a new acquisition, have no idea about the player because they never watch basketball. I get it, not everybody is a hardcore NBA fan, and many people just post these threads about information, but c'mon. It doesn't take a hardcore fan to realize that a guy like Billups in the twilight of his career, yet still productive, has absolutely ZERO interest in signing with Sacramento, even if nobody heard of his threats to retire if he doesn't go where he wants.

And you can dislike me all you want, but the only thing that is well documented is me being a realist, and one who is correct most of the time.

[SacKingZZZ]

I've changed my mind. Kings should claim him and make him retire, keep him from going to Miami, hahaha.

[City of Trees]

Sounds like the LA Clippers have claimed Billups