Report: Maloofs explore moving the Sacramento Kings to Virginia

[InspiredLebowski]

http://www.news10.net/news/article/2...ng-to-Virginia

SACRAMENTO - The owners of the Sacramento Kings plan to move the team to Virginia Beach, according to a newspaper based in nearby Norfolk.

The Kings would be tenants in a new arena to be built near the Virginia Beach Convention Center and operated by Global Spectrum, according to Inside Business.

The paper says lease payments would be guaranteed for 25 years by Comcast, which owns Global Spectrum.
Comcast would reportedly get broadcast rights and its name on the new arena.

Inside Business quotes sources as saying the Maloof family will join Comcast officials in announcing the planned move next Wednesday, one day Virginia Beach mayor Will Sessoms briefs the city council in a closed session.

A deal between the Maloofs and the city of Sacramento to build a $391 million sports and entertainment complex in the Downtown Railyards collapsed three months ago when George Maloof announced the family didn't want to assume the additional debt burden.

[Derrick]

Thats bs

[DTreats]

Ewww Virginia

[niko]

What? Isn't it a bad market? It's not populous, unless you are pulling from the Washington market i guess (or Baltimore?)

Why there?

[Bigsmoke]

so there is going to be more east than west teams again?

why can't they have the team in Fresno or some shit?

[SilkkTheShocker]

It would have been cooler if they were moving to West Virginia. They could have played their games in a giant barn and handed out jars of moonshine.

[KG215]

Well, that should make conference and division realignment interesting. Taking a team from one coast to the other. Wonder if they'll still be a member of the Western Conference their first year in Virginia?

[InspiredLebowski]

What? Isn't it a bad market? It's not populous, unless you are pulling from the Washington market i guess (or Baltimore?)

Why there?

I agree it makes no sense. I think it's probably bullshit, but just passing it along.

[SilkkTheShocker]

Ewww Virginia

This. Virginia is boring as hell. Its a state you drive through to get to another state. Its makes Milwaukee look like Las Vegas

[RaininTwos]

Virginia is a cool state, chill brah.

But why won't they just move to Seattle and call it a day?

[Maniak]

The only place the kings should move to that starts with a V is Vancouver.

[Killbot]

WTF?

Some of the division names are already a bit skewed. Putting them in Virginia is going to make it worse.

[StateOfMind12]

It's not official yet.

[swi7ch]

About time Virginia gets any team in any major sports!

[Jimmy2k8]

It would have been cooler if they were moving to West Virginia. They could have played their games in a giant barn and handed out jars of moonshine.

Spoken like someone who has never lived in West Virginia.