The current majority owners of the Sacramento Kings urged the NBA to approve Chris Hansen’s acquisition of the team during the Seattle group’s presentation Wednesday to the league in New York City, local leaders said.
Hansen made his case that Seattle’s plan for the NBA is stronger than Sacramento’s, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer asserted that all the pieces are in place to relocate the Kings to the Emerald City. That’s according to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and King County Executive Dow Constantine, who held a news conference after their pitch to the NBA’s finance and relocation committees at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.
“Steve Ballmer finished up with something I’d call energetic and enthusiastic — a characteristically energetic presentation,” Constantine said. “And George Maloof also made remarks about the family’s interest in moving forward with the agreement they had with the Chris Hansen group.”
King-TV’s Chris Daniels tweeted that George Maloof, whose family agreed in January to sell their 65 stake in the Kings to Hansen, was “very emotional” during his speech to the NBA owners, saying Hansen would be a good steward of the Kings franchise. If the purchase and relocation to Seattle are approved, the team would be renamed the SuperSonics.
Much of the 90-minute meeting focused on explaining the details of Seattle’s plan to the NBA committees, which are made up of majority team owners. Hansen was joined in the room by the Maloofs, Ballmer, McGinn, Constantine, two members of the Nordstrom family, and former Sonics CEO Wally Walker.
“The load was carried of course by Chris Hansen and the ownership team, reviewing what they were proposing and dealing with any questions as they came up,” McGinn said. “And we were there to express that Seattle supports bringing the NBA back to Seattle, and that there’s the political and public support for that. And I do think it was a very positive meeting.”
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