There is a debate raging in Northern California this week.
The Sacramento Kings are fighting once again to stay in Sacramento, California.
A year ago they fought and petitioned to the NBA to halt the Maloof brothers
from moving the team from Sacramento to Anaheim, California. The reason they
were able to get one more year in was due to Kevin Johnson former NBA point
guard who is now the mayor of Sacramento, and has energized the city to the point
where now they have a plan and they are approaching some key deadlines in order
to get a new arena. They have a hedge fund billionaire who will help out with
the money so hopefully that will get them to the 400 million mark to build the
new arena. The one thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that the Power
Balance Arena was built in 1988 and lacks many of the new amenities in arenas
now including club seating and suites. Power Balance Arena is the smallest
arena in the NBA today and is the most outdated. If they do not get a new
stadium agreement reached, there is the potential that they could still go to Anaheim
but there’s been a lot of talk of them going to Seattle to replace the
Supersonics that left in 2008 for Oklahoma City, OK. I hope they stay in
Sacramento because the fans of Sacramento are definitely worthy of keeping them
and it is the only team in the city so it is nice to see cities with a team to
root for.
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