SACRAMENTO KINGS Owners the MALOOF'S moving team to Southern California almost a done deal......Anaheim ROYALS or L.A. ROYALS....you be the JUDGE..

Its a move unfortunaletly to the City of SACRAMENTO and it's Mayor ex- CAVS and SUNS Star KEVIN JOHNSON knew was coming sooner or later. The KINGS are always last in attendance in the NBA and playing in an arena that is way under NBA Standards is not what the MALOOF'S are in business for.

Recently the MALOOF'S trademarked 2 names the Anaheim ROYALS and the Los Angeles ROYALS for their most certain move to Southern California. And if they end up in the ARENA in Anaheim, the HONDA Center, the name has to be the Anaheim ROYALS by terms of the Anaheim City Council.

There are some things to point out for the move to Southern California for the KINGS:

1. The 4 Counties in and around Los Angeles that make up the LA Area are about 15 million in population and Orange County alone which the KINGS are moving to has 3 million people by itself. So from a fan support perspective the potential numbers are there for sure.

2. The Arena the KINGS currently play in has only 30 tiny luxury suites and the KINGS and MALOOF'S have been wanting to expand on those for years because of the increased revenue that SUITES bring teams. The HONDA Center has 80 Suites so that is a Plus 50 upgrade and if each suite has a 3 year lease of about $1.5 Million for those years......add that revenue up.


3. And if you have been paying attention the KINGS have been playing a lot of games in THROWBACK ROYALS Uniforms.........Now that is clearly sending a message to FANS in SAC-TOWN that they are not only moving but we have been playing in the NEW NAME all season.

Finally, People have been pointing out that the move is similar to the SEATTLE move....well it's not even close. The New Owner that took over the SONICS was a business man from OKLAHOMA CITY who had a brand new arena in place, The FORD CENTER, where the OK CITY THUNDER play in now, had a plan in place from the jump to move the team.

The KINGS and the MALOOF'S have been wanting to stay in SAC-TOWN because of the FAN SUPPORT but could never get the city on board to help finance a new arena and the MALOOF'S never wanted to move but with a chance to increase REVENUE and Team's Overall Value...the move now is almost certain.

Looking back on the KINGS when the MALOOF'S took over, the BLUEDUDUE will always remember the KINGS 1999-2003 with the like of Mike BIBBY, Bobby JACKSON, C-WEBB, PEJA, VLADE, CHRISTIE, and HEDO with Head Coach Rick ADELMAN who were all so close to bring the COW BELLS A TITLE to SAC-TOWN..........Now off to LA LA LAND...where all the STARS come out and the MALOOF'S will have Orage County Jumping and give that area a needed boost.