I ONCE CUT MY ARM,
AND THE NBA DRIBBLED OUT
WHORING MYSELF
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If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you probably know my thoughts on flopping (too lazy to link), but this was egregious. Also:
Chris Paul is the smartest kid in your school who cheats on tests because he wants to get a 100 instead of a 98.
“I’ve always liked the Maloof brothers, but they screwed this thing up royally. All these teams, try to screw these cities, Ernie. That’s what the deal is. I don’t think it’s right that poor people have to build these stadiums, year after year after year. Every x amount of years, they screw the fans and the taxpayers making them build a bigger stadium, a bigger stadium, a bigger stadium. I think these owners are worth so much money, there’s a city benefit, of course there’s a city benefit, but this thing—in all franchises in all sports—been screwing these fans for the last 30 years moving from city to city.
Those people in Sacramento were some of the best fans in the world.
They screwed Seattle because they wouldn’t give them a new arena. Because those fans in Seattle were amazing.
But this is all about the owners, just being greedy and screwing these fans. But I will say this one thing:
It’s time for David Stern to step in and say ‘you guys gotta sell that team.’
They can’t go through this every year after year after year. It’s time for David Stern, the long arm of the law, to say you know what ‘whether you stay or go, you guys got to sell this team,’ and I think he has to do that.”
He’s so right, and it’s obvious to anyone with half a heart: Seattle deserves to have a team and Sacramento deserves to keep their team, but with new owners. The whole thing just sucks, and now is the time for Stern to step in and force the Maloof’s out, regardless of who purchases the team. They shouldn’t retain even one half of one percent of an ownership stake (it’s believed the deal to Seattle is being held up by the still murky agreement to build a new arena in Seattle, and whether the Maloof’s retain some ownership). The Maloof’s screwed the pooch time and again in Sacramento and they’re now basically saying they’ll only sell to groups that will move the team out of Sacramento, again screwing Kings fans in the process. The whole thing just sucks for Sacramento and Seattle.
Go read Aldridge’s Monday column for more.
R.I.P. Sacramento Kings. Your fans deserved better.
(via nbaoffseason)
After threatening to move their team to Anaheim, selling off their beer distributorship, getting an arena deal from Sacramento, expanding the Palms casino, selling the Palms casino, signing Lindsay Lohan’s sister to a record deal, backing out of the arena deal, and worst of all, drafting Jimmer Fredette, the Maloofs have sold the Kings to a Seattle ownership group, led by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and a Chris Hansen who doesn’t catch predators.
This has to be disappointing for Kings fans, who have continued to come out to games despite an economic downturn and some truly terrible post-Webber teams, while living under the threat of franchise relocation. Seattle fans have to be psyched to get basketball back, though they are going to have to stop complaining about Kevin Durant and the Thunder now that they’ve also stolen another city’s team. Of course, Kansas City and Rochester probably have very little sympathy for Sacramento.
Pour out some rakia into the river for Vlade Divac, listen to some Wayman Tisdale albums, and hang a Mitch Richmond jersey from the top of that weird ziggurat, for today, the cowbells clang a song of mourning.
PREACH SEAN, PREACH!
Reports are that the Kings new owners would like to relocate for 2013-14 season, play 2 seasons in Key Arena, then move into new facility.
This is important news if only so Sacramento Kings fans can properly mourn the loss of their basketball team. The cycle of basketball fandom has come full circle.
Tom Ziller is the lead writer for SB Nation, and a co-founder of Sactown Royalty. Today he gave readers a list of things that are worse than the Sacramento Kings:
* The Washington Wizards.
* Climate change.
* Sleeping through your alarm on the first day of work at a new job.
* Mayonnaise.
* Miracle Whip.
* The ‘Check Engine’ light.
* People who eat babies.
* A good portion of children’s television.
* A majority of adult television.
* Apple’s maps.
* Finding out the hard way that, yes, your dog can reach that box of donuts, that bag of bagels and that thawing pork shoulder.
* Not giving a few bucks to Royal Jelly 2012.
* The fact that the Lakers exist.
* George Maloof.
* George Maloof’s grin.
* George Maloof’s face.
* George Maloof’s essence.
* George Maloof’s 20-year-old perm.
* Pretty much everything about George Maloof.
* Virginia Beach.
* Henry Samueli.
* The Detroit Pistons.
* War.
* Hunger.
* Poverty.
* Polio.
* The Clap. (Or so I hear …)
* Rachael Ray’s recipe for late night bacon.
* “Mini Cheeseburger Salad with Yellow Mustard Vinegarette.”
* Being forced to yawn while riding your bike through a cloud of gnats.
* Losing a tiny screw inside a contraption that you are assembling, forcing you to dissemble the contraption to retrieve the tiny screw.
* Convenience store coffee.
* Lockouts.
* Relocation.
* The feeling of the national sentiment turning against you because of some poorly attended games.
* The lack of the Sacramento Kings.
* Did I mention George Maloof?
The above gif is of George Maloof.
