One Week To Go Hopefully For The Possible Return Of The Sonics
By gordon on Apr 12, 2013 in Basketball, Featured
“One Man’s Opinion” by Gordon Curvey
BREAKING NEWS: Chris Hansen has announced that his group will thrown in another $25 million in the pot to the Maloof Brothers to buy the Kings.
Today as I write this blog it is one week for a possible vote for the return of the NBA for here in Seattle. The Board of Governor’s (ie NBA owners) will meet next Friday and we here in Seattle are on pins and needles for next week. I know I am.
Truth be told readers, I AM TIRED OF WAITING!! I want to know if the Sacramento Kings are moving here to Seattle in the fall to play as the Seattle Sonics for two years at the Key Arena while a brand new arena is built not to far away from where I stay here in Seattle. MANY of us here in the Seattle area are TIRED of all the back and forth news from Seattle and Sacramento. TIRED! TIRED! TIRED! I want to know what is going to happen? What is going to happen dammit!!
The Maloof Brothers gave a 5pm deadline for the Sacramento folks to match the Hansen-Ballmer money buy the Kings from the Maloofs. Word is today is the Kings group will match the Hansen-Ballmer offer. Of course we all know that would happen well at least I knew. So now it is MORE back and forth. This stuff is CRAZY!!
The Kings group continues to have moving pieces with folks leaving and coming. In my opinion this is not right and should be in our favor because the Hansen-Ballmer group has been very stable from the start. And has given the Maloof’s a $30 million non-refundable check for the Kings. And we hear that in the meetings in New York last week their presentation was again very very good.
Let’s hope everything will be in side of the court sort of speak so I can go to a celebration party at former Sonic star’s Shawn Kemp’s place Oskar’s and a drink a beer or two to celebrate the return of the Sonics to Seattle.
If you listen to Sacramento’s side they think the Kings are staying in their city. Of course we are not hearing from Chris Hansen or Steve Ballmer. We here Mayor Kevin Johnson in press conference after press conference. KJ has a personality and has played in the NBA for 13 years and knows a lot of the NBA owners. This makes me nervous readers.
So will the Kings move here to Seattle or will we get a promise of a expansion team in a few years? I don’t know. So I will be back with more news on the possible return of the NBA to Seattle right here on “Sports Inner City Online”.
