Sources tell ESPN a committee of NBA owners voted against moving the Kings to Seattle

[JimLeavy59]

I hope David Stern takes Chris Hansen out to dinner because I'm sure he'd like to be wined and dined after he's been fucked.

[calgaryballer]

Hansen will now get to buy an expansion franchise for just as much money! Hooray for pro sports! The NBA gets a watered down product and the people of Seattle get fucked again

[FedEx227]

Man, the Seattle propaganda machine really got everyone didn't it?

Here's the scenario:

The Maloofs for years have denied arena proposals in Sacramento and multiple previous offers by Sacramento investors. They publicly said the team wasn't for sale while at the same time making an illegal agreement to sell the team to a Seattle group (Chris Hansen). They are total pieces of shit who destroy anything they touch. Go look at their other business ventures.

Unlike Seattle (follow the timeline, the exact same thing that Sacramento is going through Seattle did too, the hypocrisy is unbelievable), the city of Sacramento and Kevin Johnson went to Stern and asked what he could do to keep the team in town. Stern wanted him to put an ownership group together and guarantee the building of a new arena. Johnson did that and thus the owners voted to keep the team in Sacramento which is well in their rights.

The Maloofs can still sell the team to Hansen, the NBA just denied the relocation. Hansen probably doesn't want a team in Sacramento so he'll back out. Again, follow the Seattle timeline and follow this timeline. You'll see Sacramento did everything Seattle should've done to keep their team.

The people of Seattle did not get fucked again. They were trying to take a franchise the same way they lost theirs and cried about for years. If anything it's poetic justice for their galling hypocrisy.

[JeremyHight]

Who the fuck cares what Sacramento did to keep their team? All that matters is that they will still get 70% attendance at their new publicly funded stadium, while much better basketball towns are left out in the dark.

Congrats, Sac! You can go back to not caring about the Kings now.

[FedEx227]

Do you guys admit that Seattle stopped caring about basketball? Or does fan fatigue from an uncertain future and shitty ownership only count against Sacramento and not Seattle?

Let's also ignore the 15-20 years where Sacramento had one of the leagues top attendance records, but no, totally guys.

[FedEx227]

2002
Sonics: 90.5
Kings: 100

2003
Sonics: 91
Kings: 100

2004
Sonics: 91.6
Kings: 100

2005
Sonics: 96.5
Kings: 100

2006
Sonics: 94.9
Kings: 100

2007
Sonics: 83.5
Kings: 100

2008
Sonics: 78.2
Kings: 81.7

2009
Kings: 72.6

2010
Kings: 76.5

Somehow one of these is a great basketball fan base and the other doesn't care about their team.

[NAHSTE]

Who the fuck cares what Sacramento did to keep their team? All that matters is that they will still get 70% attendance at their new publicly funded stadium, while much better basketball towns are left out in the dark.

Congrats, Sac! You can go back to not caring about the Kings now.

The propaganda machine working wonders.

[JeremyHight]

First off, your 2007 number is wrong, it is 93.5, not 83.5. Source: http://espn.go.com/nba/attendance/_/...7/sort/homePct

Second,

2011
Kings: 80.2

2012
Kings: 83.8

2013
Kings: 79.4

Seattle had one season under 90%, their final season when the team was being moved and attendance dropped. On the other hand, Sac has had 6 consecutive seasons under 90% (their highest not even reaching 84%). Yet you think Sac should have a team over Seattle.

[FedEx227]

Yes. Because they deserve to have a fresh start with owners that aren't among the biggest pieces of shit in the world. This moving and turmoil between the Maloofs and Sacramento has been going on for awhile. I'm not about to say that 6 seasons under 90% after 15+ of 100% means they don't care about basketball anymore. The timeline proves that the cities struggle with Maloofs coincides with the sudden "not caring about basketball".

Again, in both scenarios the cities were given an ultimatum. Sacramento did what they were told. Seattle didn't. It's not that hard to understand. Now Seattle is taking over the OKC role (SECRETLY SELL US YOUR TEAM SO WE CAN MOVE IT!) while Sacramento is doing everything Seattle should've done to keep their team.

[Rayman]

Seattle becoming to the NBA what LA has to the NFL.