<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">If Henry Samueli could persuade an NBA owner to move his team to the Arrowhead Pond and that owner wanted to identify his team with Los Angeles, Samueli would not stop him and the Anaheim City Council could not stop him. Samueli owns the Ducks, runs the Pond and wants an NBA franchise there, either through purchase or by persuading an NBA owner to move. After a news conference Thursday to unveil the Ducks' new logo, which features the Anaheim name and an orange accent to represent Orange County, Samueli said he would not call an NBA team by a Los Angeles name but would not restrict another owner from doing so. "If I'm the owner, certainly I wouldn't do that," he said. "If somebody else wanted to do that, I wouldn't stand in their way. Put it this way: I wouldn't prevent a team from coming here just for that reason." Whether a team would want to use the Los Angeles label in a market where the Lakers and Clippers already do so is hypothetical. Samueli said he and his wife, Susan, had met with NBA Commissioner David Stern and asked whether the league would allow a third team in Southern California. "He said that's certainly a possibility," Samueli said. "He did not rule that out." Samueli has looked into the availability of the Portland Trail Blazers, Seattle SuperSonics and Sacramento Kings. Without reference to a specific team, he said he had no offer on the table for any team and "no serious discussions ongoing." The Anaheim City Council this week unanimously approved an agreement in which the Pond, officially the Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, can remove Anaheim from the arena name if the teams playing there use Anaheim as "the first word and sole geographic identifier" in their names. </div> Source
I guess it all comes down to which of those teams have the lowest attendace rates who needs their home team to leave town.
i'm a kings fan and we love our kings (only thing here) and our home games are always sold out. the only i way i see them leaving is if we don't get the arena that the maloofs have been trying to get these past few years
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting d0rkus:</div><div class="quote_post">i'm a kings fan and we love our kings (only thing here) and our home games are always sold out. the only i way i see them leaving is if we don't get the arena that the maloofs have been trying to get these past few years</div> The Kings will stay in Sacramento. The Maloof's are bluffing as much as anything elce. Aneheim, I doubt it. The Maloof's are surely aware of what I am when I hear of the Kings possably going there. That's LOS ANGELES LAKERS country. It's not a matter of me not beleiving the people of L.A. Metropolatian wouldn't welcome the Kings despite these 2 being such hated rivals at one time. No I beleive once the Sacramento Kings became apart of Metropolitian Los Angeles - (Note : The Lakers & Clippers are actual greater L.A.) , I beleive the people of Los Angeles would embrace the Kings. Atleast the majoraty would. But that's not to say the Kings would ever even come close to being a SoCal favorite of the Lakers. And thats where my point is leading. Half the time I think of Green Bay having an NFL team and Los Angeles not having one - (Note : If you count Metropolitian as well as Greater L.A. you get a bigger City than N.Y.C., despite the actual City of N.Y.C. being over double the size of L.A.) I beleive it's do to how passionate the L.A. faithful are to the Lakers and Dodgers. I phoned a buddy of mine in Bakersfield who's a Laker fan when I saw this thread. It's a good thread; but my buddy travels from Bakersfield to Staples Center about 10 times a year to watch the Lakers live. He said he'd continue "ONLY" Laker games even if the Kings became a Los Angeles Kings of Aneheim team. - (Putting it into baseball terms. I'm not saying the Kings couldn't get sale outs in the Los Angeles area or anything. But they would either get alot of none sale outs or the Maloof's would have to lower the seats to a very low NBA standard. All do to the love of rum La La Land has for the Lakers. Up here the Maloof's haven't had a "None Seat Sale Out" in Rick Adelmans entire era. The seats are so expensive the bring in more money than many of the bigger Arena's in the NBA that are homes of bad Organazations. And no Madison Square Garden isn't one of them. David Stern will fight the Maloof's hard about Las Vegas. David Stern said before the Maloof's ever even speculated moving the Kings there that if he was commisinior of the AFL he wouldn't even have allowed the Gladiators move to a gambeling Town. My point is the Maloof's will finally have their way about the whole Arena situation before any realistic Cities came into play. Although I will admit, at the risk of offending people, I will say; I beleive within 3 years or less the Kings would become a favorite over the Clippers in the Los Angeles area. But they'de be so oudistanced by the Cities love for the Lakers that it wouldn't work. I give the Kings a 95 % chance of not leaving the City of Sacramento for years to come and then some over. LOL, when the Arena gets built their " <font size=""7"">NEVER GONNA LEAVE SACRAMENTO !!!</font>
Definitely a possibility with the Sonics. I've heard a while back that the Sonics were looking to move out of Seattle. Forgot the reason why, it was so long ago. The only problem is that I wouldn't like having five teams in California. The Kings will get their stadium deal sooner or later making them stuck in Sac-town for a while. The Blazers is an interesting possibility, put them up there with the Sonics as the front runners.
If the Blazers do move, I think it would be great for the franchise all together. I see they are trying to start over with all the draftees that they got. With a new city, new players, and a new court could be all they need to turn this team around.
