This week, the news that the Kings higher ups were finalizing a team sale and relocation to Seattle broke. Per, Yahoo!’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Maloofs (co owners) were in the process of wrapping up a deal.
The Maloofs are finalizing an agreement to sell the Sacramento Kings to the Hansen-Ballmer led Seattle group, sources tell Yahoo! Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) January 9, 2013
It is now clear that the deal is far from finalized. Prior to Thursday afternoon, it appeared that the deal sending the Kings to Seattle had little more than a handful of semantics to work through.
George Maloof evidently didn’t see it that way.
George Maloof tells News10 a deal to sell the Kings to Seattle group is not close.
— Bryan May (@BMayNews10) January 10, 2013
The storm of questions around the Kings sale/ not sale continues unhindered as of Thursday afternoon. The Seattle Times had also broken the story of the Kings’ sale, citing an unnamed NBA source.
In an update to the story, a source close to the Maloofs has told the Sacramento Bee that there was nothing imminent due to the fact that there was no price on the table. In fact, according to the Bee’s source, there had been no contact between the Maloofs and the Seattle financier to which the Kings were reportedly being sold.
There’s more to come from this, to be sure.
Mohamed Abdihakim is a journalism student at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Phoenix Suns fan, who is not prepared for the possibility of Nash winning a title in a Lakers jersey. Mohamed is also an editor at Hoops Nation and contributes to Les Snobs. Interests include International basketball, Mad Men, and blues music. Nearly all stats are credited to Hoopdata or Basketball-Reference.
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