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With a vote of 22-8, the NBA Board of Governors today rejected the request of the Maloofs to relocate the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. With that vote, the sale to Seattle's Hansen/Ballmer group was also negated.

David Stern, speaking after the vote, said it was always about Sacramento. He said when the pending sale to Seattle was announced, Mayor Kevin Johnson came to the NBA and asked them what Sacramento needed to do. Stern said they laid out all of the huddles a potential Sacramento ownership group would need to jump and that Johnson was able to get it done.

At this point, the Maloofs are still the owners of the Sacramento Kings. George Maloof has denied rumors that his family would not deal with Ranadive. Stern indicated that he believes an agreement between the Maloofs and Ranadive could come as soon as within the next 24 hours.

Word from Kevin Johnson is that the Ranadive group will be working with the Maloofs around the clock to get the sale completed.

At last, Kings fans can exhale.

-VF21
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Tonight is the most important night thus far in this whole saga.

It is when the "whales" will be announced and Sac's bid will be legitimized. Nothing final will come until likely the BOG votes in April, but it's possible that it will be decided before that, or that at least we might all know, if not be official.

Things have been moving very fast the last few weeks, and KJ has been MASTERFUL with the PR and timing of announcements. All indications, including comments/reports from other owners, are that if KJ comes through with what he has been claiming (and essentially reporting to us) -- and this will be announced tonight (though perhaps not all the details of the bid, we will see) -- that it will be a no brainer to keep the Kings in town, or at the very least, block the sale to Hansen/Ballmer. We seem to have all the momentum at the moment. City council votes are pretty much locked in favor of a major arena subsidy, if that is part of the plan. Final arena site still not nailed down.
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Eye Candy at summer league

Don't get too excited just yet. Summer League in Las Vegas os the biggest sports melting pot in the world. There are 23 NBA teams represented from every corner of the country and every one of them has their cadre of fans. *Las Vegas is a Lakers town but the Sacramento Kings are well represented due to the Maloofs and their (sic!) Palms Casino.

Fans from Boston are different from Chicago fans who are very separate from Spurs, Kings and Clipper fans. *Clipper fans are a bit like us Kings fans were in 1998 when the team took a major upturn. Every fan group seems to prefer different drinks and snaks too. *At any moment in the food court area between Cox Pavilion and Thomas & Mack one can see T-shirts from 10-12 different NBA teams and frequently see several Euro team shirts.
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Tue, 7/17 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas v1.0

There are a lot of reasons to come to the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas in July. In v1.0 here we look at the basketball reason. In v2.0 we'll talk with a number of Kings and potential Kings as well as getting a fresh perspective from Coach Jax on both he and his squad. In v3.0 we'll look at the Eye Candy reason from four perspectives.

Speed of summer league games is faster then NBA games as everyone is showcasing their skills, trying too hard much of the times and trying to outdo each other on every play. Way too much one-on-one ball. But in this, the biggest Fishbowl of a tryout arena in the world, players know the multitude of eyes of GM's, Player Personnel Managers, agents, scouts and front office folks from virtually every team in the NBA are on them. And they only have 5 games to show themselves.
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