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It's only 4 extra home games. How are you coming up with 8?
San Antonio could be a home game for the lakers with all those MVP chants when Kobe walks in.
Norco, CA would be perfect for the Spurs, since theres a bunch of cowboy hats, cowboy boots and fat ladies in that city.
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...ey-to-anaheim/Kings’ relocation: Follow the television money to Anaheim
Kurt Helin
That lease deal the city of Anaheim approved and is now awaiting a Maloof signature is not a great one for the Kings. Not really close. They take on more debt — a $50 million loan — and don’t get all the luxury box money, and just a percentage of concessions, parking and other incomes. Nobody should be calling it a sweet deal.
So how does it pencil out for the Kings?
Television money. As Sam Amick explained at his NBA Confidential (in a follow up to his exhaustive piece for ESPN), the television market is what changes everything.
Currently the Kings make $11 million a year from Comcast, Amick reports (the first time we have heard a figure).
In the Southern California market, they will likely at least triple that. Or quadruple it (which is what people around the Kings have hinted). Or more.
The Lakers just signed a 20-year deal with a soon-to-be-launched new cable sports network that the team swears is not going to pay them the reported $150 million a year everybody keeps hearing. But you can bet it’s in that ballpark. Although it may be 10 percent less at if the Kings move to town. So only $135 million a year.
Now they are the Lakers, the kings of all sports media in Los Angeles. They are story one, two and three in a city without an NFL team. The Kings are not going to get near that. But a third of that?
Fox Sports West needs someone to replace the Lakers on their schedule. There is an opening. Television ratings will come if they are successful. That is the key in Orange County and the Southern California (for attendance as well).
An extra $20-$30 million a year covers a lot of problems for the Maloof brothers. As always, it’s about the money. This time, it’s just television money more than just stadium money.
and there you go...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slu...ngs-relocationMayor to plead Sacramento’s case to keep Kings
By Antonio Gonzalez
Sacramento isn’t losing its NBA team without a fight.
Mayor Kevin Johnson plans to attend the NBA Board of Governors meeting next month to plead Sacramento’s case to keep the Kings. The former NBA All-Star wrote on his blog Thursday night that he will give the league one final pitch to prevent the Kings from moving south to Anaheim and take steps to lure a franchise back should they leave.
“There’s still a little time left on the clock regarding our future with the Kings,” Johnson said. “Second, Sacramento means business when it comes to continuing our 25-year partnership with the NBA.”
Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof appear determined to relocate to Southern California next fall. About the only thing standing in their way is a majority vote of the NBA’s owners.
The Board of Governors meetings are April 14-15 in New York. Johnson said the league already has granted his request to attend and speak on behalf of Sacramento.
An NBA spokesman didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment. The league, which along with the Maloofs has not commented on most relocation talk, already has granted the Kings an extension until April 18 to file a request— mere days after the Board of Governors meet.
Johnson said he spoke with former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory about how the Southern city dealt with the loss of the Hornets—who moved to New Orleans after the 2001-02 season—and, perhaps more importantly, how the city quickly lured back an NBA franchise. The Charlotte Bobcats formed in 2004, the league’s last expansion team.
Plans were still being made, Johnson said, but he will likely bring business and community leaders with him from Sacramento and the Central Valley to speak to NBA owners.
“They will want to know about possibilities of a new arena in Sacramento, and whether after all these years, our community can finally deliver,” Johnson said. “But the bottom line is, the opportunity to speak straight to the NBA is a huge step for our community. It puts our destiny exactly where it belongs: back in our own hands.”
On the web: http://www.kevinjohnson.com/
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