It seems like only yesterday that the Sacramento Kings were due to be sold to a group that intended to move the team to Seattle in an effort to revive the SuperSonics.
And yet, there's been no official word yet as to the future of the Kings franchise, thanks in large part to the last-ditch efforts of Sacramento mayor (and former NBA All-Star) Kevin Johnson to keep the team in California's capital.
For now, anyway. According to Aaron Bruski of USA Today, the fate of basketball in Sacramento may well be decided by the start of March:
Lost amidst the tug-of-war between the cities of Seattle and Sacramento is one simple question: why doesn't the NBA just re-expand into the Pacific Northwest?
It wasn't all that long before the latest Kings relocation hoopla began that NBA commissioner David Stern mentioned that the league would probably have a presence in Europe within the next 20 years or so. Such wouldn't constitute franchise expansion, per se, since in all likelihood the Association would simply absorb some of the continent's most prominent clubs and create a separate transatlantic division thereabouts.
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