What exactly did KJ do? I know he's been campaigning to keep the team in Sac for years, but NOTHING materialized until after there was a deal in place with Hansen. The Kings are staying in Sac because Stern wants them to. Not because KJ did anything extraordinary.
yeah, one that was told to find a new ownership group to buy the team, and the other wasn't. so you're bitching about apples and oranges.
I dread the day Portland's politicians have to be counted on to save our team. Can you imagine that cluster fuck?
yeah, and the Kings had a huge uphill battle....they've been rumored to go to Anaheim, Seattle...the city is shit financially yet they were still able to pull it off. Its a case study of fighting your ass off versus taking it in the ass from a huckster from Oklahoma. Seattle as a whole was just apathetic until it was too late.
All those rumors and they couldn't get a viable ownership group together until a month ago. Great work by KJ. If he had done a great job, than the Kings would already have new owners and none of this would have happened. Even as it stands, the Kings are only staying in Sac because Stern wants them to. In what other circumstance does the offer that is significantly worse financially AND was last to be submitted ever accepted? In any industry. And its an offer that the owner does not want to take.
and why would "Stern want to keep the Kings in Sacramento"? Is it just because he realizes the backlash from moving franchises around? If so, it is ironic that the entire "Sonicsgate" movement essentially was a negative feedback loop and pushed stern to not want to move franchises so haphazardly.
I used to know someone in the mayor's office two administrations ago and at that time the if the Blazers wanted to leave the City of Portland's strategy would be to ask to be bought out of the lease rather than fight to enforce it. If I remember right the city would have taken $40mill to let the Blazers go.
the city of Portland needs people with vision, and passion. instead we're stuck with bike riders and boring clowns.
I like the idea of a streetcar, just not a hugely expensive one that replaces one they got rid of years ago.
