I am not an attorney or legal scholar but, if Hansen was compelled to sue the city of Sacramento for interference in a private sales transaction, would he not have to name the NBA in the suit as well? There would have to be a nexus to the NBA since they allowed the counter offer! I don't see anyone, including Hansen/Ballmer, suing the very entity(club) they are so desperately trying to get into. Unless they feel that the purchase of the Kings is their only hope. It appears that Hansen may have been overly confident that the NBA would rubber stamp a sale ridding the league of the Maloofs, who have been an embarrassment to the NBA for years!

.... when the dust settles, will be a law firm or at worse, a ward of the court. Truly. Welcome to 21st century professional sports.

Seattle didn't have Kevin Johnson as mayor when the Sonics were here, instead of that doofus.

the Supersonics return home Tomorrow on the team 787 plane at midnight. A friend of a friend told my friend this. I will be at Boeing field to greet them home!!!!

Stealing a Team from another City is still Stealing. No honor among thiefs.

Stealing? Last time I checked, it isn't stealing if you pay for it.

What a moron dumb a55 brain dead comment. NOBODY IS STEALING ANYTHING DIPSTICK! They are going to PURCHASE the team. Do you know what purchase means. Evidently not! Let me explain like your a dumba55 3yr old. First moron you pay for the product (team). Do i need to explain what Pay means? Evidently so since you use stealing. Paying someone is when you have an item to sell and I give you MONEY for it. That is paying for something. Stealing taking something from someone that does not belong to you. DO YOU GOT THAT? OR DO I NEED TO WRITE THIS IN COLOR CRAYON FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND! Stealing what a dumb a55 comment from a dumb a55 commentator.

paying about THREE TIMES what the Maloofs originally paid for it. Stealing? Yeah, right. There's no arena deal down there, which is a requirement of the NBA (ask Sonics fans about THAT) and if the owner chooses to sell, the owner chooses to sell. Quit the whining. There are lots of injustices in the world and especially in big business. If no one has stepped up and the Kings move, Sacramento has no one to blame but themselves; it's a choice they made.

that Stern is allowing Sacramento all this extra time to find another owner yet they did nothing when it came to the Sonics. I think Hansen has out positioned Stern and Sacramento on this deal. If things don't go his way the lawsuits will make a mess of the NBA (not that it needs any help).

as I understand it the city had/has an arena deal, that was negotiated by Stern and the NBA, but the Maloofs are too broke to afford it. Even though the league was going to loan them the money. The city of Sacramento was/is going to spend about 250 million to fund the arena. This was more than the worthless former Seattle mayor and other government officials were going to do for Schultz and Bennett. Lastly I don't think the NBA would be doing all this if they didn't care if the Kings moved, their doing it because they did everything they could to keep the team and the Maloofs embarrassed the league. How did Hansen out position them? He threw out a $ amount he thought no one would turn down and touch. He was right on half of that anyway. I do agree it is not stealing on Hansen's part he is just doing business! But the Maloofs appear to be the, as you used above, "dumb a55."

Malarky! The Balmer group worked out a renovation deal with the mayor and it was part of their last ditch offer.