Ladies and Gentlemen

[Shirib]

The Seattle SuperSonics will be coming back home



http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2013/01/0 ... sed-group/

[Shirib]

2013-2014 season, I maybe ending my boycott of the NBA

[crazyRasputin]

2013-2014 season, I maybe ending my boycott of the NBA

you mean you city council has allowed a new arena to be opened? You know I been to a Seattle SuperSonics game, unfortunately it was during Ray Allen's rain in Key Arena, it was game against the Toronto Raptors when Vince was Vince

[Skippa]

Sad news for Mayor K.J., the Sacramento fans and their cowbells

[Shirib]

2013-2014 season, I maybe ending my boycott of the NBA

you mean you city council has allowed a new arena to be opened? You know I been to a Seattle SuperSonics game, unfortunately it was during Ray Allen's rain in Key Arena, it was game against the Toronto Raptors when Vince was Vince

The arena deal has been approved since the summer. The news today is that Chris Hansen's group is finalizing agreement with the Maloofs to purchase the Sacramento Kings.

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2013/01/0 ... sed-group/

[Shirib]

The deal will sell the Kings for approximately $500 million to a group led by hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer. The group is seeking to relocate the franchise to Seattle’s Key Arena for the 2013-14 season.The Seattle group’s plans, with support of the NBA, is to play two seasons in Key Arena before moving into a new Seattle arena, sources said.

No agreement has been signed, but one source with knowledge of the talks described the deal as “first and goal at the 1.”

The purchase to a group led by Hansen, a Seattle native living in the San Francisco area, is not complete. The Maloofs have a history of bailing on major deals at the last minute, as Sacramento officials know from getting their hearts broken in arena negotiations in the Northern California city. But if details from the very reliable Wojnarowski are completed, chances are good the NBA is forever leaving a town that has supported professional basketball like few others.

Just yesterday, civic leaders in Virginia Beach, Va., who had hoped of luring the Kings this year ended that cause.

Seattle has already secured financing for an arena and was only waiting on having a team in place before moving forward with construction. The hope there all along has been for the relocated franchise to be re-named the SuperSonics, wear the familiar green and gold, and play in KeyArena until the new building is completed. That, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn told NBA.com in October, would likely mean two seasons in the old facility.

There are other details to the reported agreement, Wojnarowski reports:

The Maloofs are expected to keep an extremely small percentage of the team, but will have no real input or say in the franchise, sources said.

Once the sale is completed, the Seattle-based group will have until March to file for relocation. NBA commissioner David Stern has been a big proponent of the Hansen-Ballmer group, and league officials will work diligently to help the franchise move to Seattle if the sale is finalized, sources said. The Seattle-based group is determined to not have the franchise spend a final lame-duck season in Sacramento.

[crazyRasputin]

The deal will sell the Kings for approximately $500 million to a group led by hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft chairman Steve Ballmer. The group is seeking to relocate the franchise to Seattle’s Key Arena for the 2013-14 season.The Seattle group’s plans, with support of the NBA, is to play two seasons in Key Arena before moving into a new Seattle arena, sources said.

No agreement has been signed, but one source with knowledge of the talks described the deal as “first and goal at the 1.”

The purchase to a group led by Hansen, a Seattle native living in the San Francisco area, is not complete. The Maloofs have a history of bailing on major deals at the last minute, as Sacramento officials know from getting their hearts broken in arena negotiations in the Northern California city. But if details from the very reliable Wojnarowski are completed, chances are good the NBA is forever leaving a town that has supported professional basketball like few others.

Just yesterday, civic leaders in Virginia Beach, Va., who had hoped of luring the Kings this year ended that cause.

Seattle has already secured financing for an arena and was only waiting on having a team in place before moving forward with construction. The hope there all along has been for the relocated franchise to be re-named the SuperSonics, wear the familiar green and gold, and play in KeyArena until the new building is completed. That, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn told NBA.com in October, would likely mean two seasons in the old facility.

There are other details to the reported agreement, Wojnarowski reports:

The Maloofs are expected to keep an extremely small percentage of the team, but will have no real input or say in the franchise, sources said.

Once the sale is completed, the Seattle-based group will have until March to file for relocation. NBA commissioner David Stern has been a big proponent of the Hansen-Ballmer group, and league officials will work diligently to help the franchise move to Seattle if the sale is finalized, sources said. The Seattle-based group is determined to not have the franchise spend a final lame-duck season in Sacramento.

^ This guy right ? lOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[Shirib]

lol, wrong Chris Hansen. This is Chris Hansen is the guy behind the arena deal and bringing the sonics back

[crazyRasputin]

lol, wrong Chris Hansen. This is Chris Hansen is the guy behind the arena deal and bringing the sonics back

I just read his background, the man ives in San Francisco, so you already know my niggga that a rich dude living in SF is most likely "laga roone"

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2015-16? Vancouver Grizzlies