Sacramento putting together offer to keep Kings

[Rios15]

Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson has worked feverishly to hold on to the Kings over the last few years and despite this weekend's agreement for the club to be sold to Seattle investors, Johnson is not ready to give up his fight. The mayor called a presser this afternoon to announce that he has put together a group of perspective owners and hopes to unfurl his plan in full soon, possibly by the end of the week, tweets David Aldridge of NBA.com.

Johnson originally hoped to line up three to five local owners for the Kings but in three days he has already found 19 people to commit at least $1MM to buying the team (Twitter link). There is a sense of urgency about the committee and Johnson says that he even 86'd plans to attend President Obama's inauguration to help put together the plan, Aldridge tweets.

You can check out the rest of today's news on the future of the Kings right here.

hoopsrumors.com

 

[Pugz]

i seriously just want them to move or have something agreed upon for them to stay; i would rather a team in seattle though.

 

[Rios15]

i seriously just want them to move or have something agreed upon for them to stay; i would rather a team in seattle though.

I miss those good 'ol Supersonics jerseys so that's why I want them back but I still would miss having the Kings in Sacramento. Doesn't seem right. Going to be interesting to see how things play out.

 

[Pugz]

the kings just need a real ownership that cares.

 

[.infamous]

This aint gonna work out for sac-town unfortunately. You can't just throw together a group like this in this short amount of time haha.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

The only way they won't be going is if those minority owners step up and buy the team. They're the last hope and probably the group KJ is talking about.

 

[RipCity32]

I feel bad for Sacramento. They deserve a team just as much as Seattle.