Not All Is Well In Kings County

Sacramento Kings are no more


The Loyal Fans of the Sacramento bid a sad farewell to thier beloved Kings

The Kings will be leaving Sacramento this season, but won't be relocating to Anaheim. In a shocking turn of events the Maloof Family have declared the franchise bankrupt. With dwindling profits in recent years and a number of off-court troubles, the Kings now go into liquidation. NBA comissioner David Stern met with Joe Maloof earlier today and has agreed to allow it to go forward despite wishing to find a new ownership group to keep them in Sacramento.

With the NBA now only containing 29 teams the big question is how does the league go forward. Comissioner Stern unveiled plans for a new franchise, with a decision on location to be announced shortly. With bids from potential ownership groups in Seattle, Baltimore, Kansas and potetial bids to take a team to Vancouver or Mexico a number of factors will have to be taken into account. Does Stern choose to expand the leagues international marketability. Will he perhaps decide to give the great fans of Seattle a team back. Perhaps a return to Baltimore or Kansas after many years without a team to follow.

But what happens to the players? All were offered to relocate with the new team, only one chose to do so. Demarcus Cousins' contract will be held by the league until the new franchise is established, who will then be able to discus terms to make any alterations to it. Some form of a dispersal draft will take place to decide where rest of the roster will go to be held later this week. However how will the franchise establish a roster? Will there be an "Expansion" draft or will they have to build a roster of free-agents. So many questions to be asked but all will be revealed in good time, all we know for now is that California will be a team light.

Last edited by shabba_93 on Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:26 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm intrigued!!! Please post more infoooo!!!

all will be revealed in good time my friend, should have the dispersal draft up tommorow. I wonder if anyone is clever enough to spot the hint in the thread title as to where the team could be.

Canada?

Well, I've heard of the saying "All is not well in Denmark." so is that the subtle clue in the thread title? I'm probably over thinking this though.

Sorry for the delay guys, time has been short recently and while i havent updated in over a month, I assure you this is still alive. I've played into mid December so far and have a number of updates taking me up to then. I wanted to make sure I had a good number done before i started posting again so it wasn't long periods of hiatus between updates. I have 4 updates pretty much ready to go its just a case of sorting pictures out. Hopefully I'll get the ball rolling properly next week and actually get an association off the ground this time. I'll also be running this in conjunction with another little side project that will heavily involve the NBA-Live community.