OT: Looks like it's gonna be the Los Angeles Kings of Anaheim in Orange County

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  1. OneSport3

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    Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, it is "more likely they're going to be in Anaheim."

    This is sad. Sacramento had a great fan base. I think this is going to have a huge affect on the CBA negotiations for owners of small market teams. Revenue sharing may be in the future for the NBA.
     
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    Orange County Kings! :devilwink:
     
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    This is fucking retarded. Why the hell are they going to Laker country?

    Send them up to Seattle.
     
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    As long as Stern is the commish, I doubt there will be any kind of meaningful reform to give the small market teams a bone. The NBA feeds off of the large market teams and indirectly funnels the top talent there to maximize the publicity and exposure. 5 super-teams in large markets and 20-ish Washington Generals. That's Stern's dream NBA.
     
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    LA is a big place.

    OC peeps need their own team. Big fucking area. Most of them are just L*ker fans because its right in the area...

    OC is really douchey though. Probably going to get a bunch of douchebag fan runoff.
     
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    They will not have a big fanbase in OC. There is no way in hell...
     
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    LA is bandwagon city. They'll have their base. Just like the Angels or the Mighty Ducks. Sure there will be L*ker fans but the thing is a bunch of OC'ers don't like LA in general and this gives them another option.
     
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    I, for one, welcome a team that's closer to San Diego- another opportunity for me to go see the Blazers.
     
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    It's about time white middle class people in Southern California got a team to cheer for!
     
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    How selfish of you.
     
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    Now I can stay at my Grandma's in Riverside instead of the Ritz Carlton in Marina Del Ray when we play the Kings!!!!!!!
     
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    I worked in Riverside for one summer. Even McDonald's playland has bars on the windows!
     
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    I was born in Riverside, but I feel sorry for Los Angeles because they have only 3 NBA teams. Maybe the Hornets will move there and ease the pain.
     
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    Don't fuck with Riverside FAMS! La Familia! Funny story, my 2 aunts went to HS with Cheryl Miller at Poly High. Once I started in Sports Broadcasting after working with Cheryl a few times I talked to her about it and she knew them well. To this day when she sees me she hollers out "Riverside!!" not "Portland!!"
     
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    Riverside is horrible. but it makes a nice song.

    [video=youtube;Pde2j70eiC8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pde2j70eiC8[/video]
     
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    3 teams is too much for that area. But I bet they do a better job of getting free agents. Life would not be bad living in New Port Beach, Hunting Beach, Laguna, Rancho Palos Verdes. Dana Point..............
     
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    Kobe lives in Newport Beach and helicopters to games i believe. I think an LA and an OC team would be fine....3 is kind of overkill...but they have certain segments of fans. Clippers fans are very strange. Its a weird underbelly of LA culture within itself. The thing is they can actually support a team out in OC more than Sacramento could....lots of people and its so spread out anyway.
     
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    If San Diego gave a fuck about sports, I'd say they'd be a good city to put the Kings in. Too bad, they don't.

    Why isn't Seattle an option here?
     
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    They already lost their team. They showed they couldn't even save a team even with a superstar like Durant.
     
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