Eight years ago today, the NBA Board of Governors voted 22 to 8 to strike down the sale of the Sacramento Kings to the Hansen-Ballmer group in Seattle.
The Kings haven’t gotten much better since then, but we’ve seen our downtown revitalized with an amazing new and state-of-the-art arena and more importantly, the team is still here and will be for years to come.
To mark this special occasion, we’ve got a couple of new merch items, the Here We Stayed and Sacramento Forever shirts.
Here We Stayed comes in both Black font and Purple font and features an outline of the Golden 1 Center. The Sacramento Forever shirt speaks for itself, listing the cities the Kings came close to moving to but in the end, we know there’s only one town for this team. If you’re a Patreon subscriber, make sure to use your 10% off code when purchasing.
Let us know your favorite moment from the relocation fight in the comments below. I’m partial to the time George Maloof got chased into a closet by a gang of reporters.
Happy Here We Stayed Day!
Hard to top the Maloof in a closet moment.
But for me it was in general how we all banded together in our hope and efforts to keep the Kings in Sacramento. The unity. No camp Donte vs camp Omri. No NAPG against YAPG, no DMC haters vs DMC apologists. It was a tense but exhilarating time.
By the way, would there be a market for a ALL HAIL THE DISMISSIVE LITTLE CHAP shirt? With a nice shaka sign logo?
If not here maybe like on Etsy.com
In another year or so, we’ll have to band together and run the dismissive little chap out of town. The sooner, the better.
I’m ready now ðð¼
I’m down. Whatever it takes to take back the team we fought to keep.
This is why I really dislike Vivek. After all the effort we put in he just shits on us all.
Bap Bap Bap
Vek Vek Vek
I wish “Long Live the Kings!” stuck around for the long term.
This would be such a cool chant at the end of games with a win in hand. I suppose you gotta start winning consistently to use it though.
Kind of like celebrating Ponzi.
Tell me again the story of the thousands of jobs the arena will bring downtown.
Tell me again how downtown Sacramento will be revitalized.
Tell me again how the Kings make Sacramento a “world-class” city.
Tell me again how the arena would pay for itself.
Ponzi would be jealous.
nope, nope, of course you are confused, taxes go into paying off bonds and the tax rate in Sacramento today is higher than it was in 2016; and I don’t pay attention to internet warriors you do give me a chuckle that you are so easily triggered.
Heather Fargo’s burner account.
Ugh, typical Vivek meddling.
You forgot the letter A.
Atypical. Atypical. Or as it is pronounced in Canada, Stauskas.
“In the lottery” is the new “in bed.”
Here we stayed…in the lottery.
Sacramento forever…in the lottery.
It’s magic!
And if you make a shirt with the G1C overlay that says “Nice Arena, Though,” I’m down.
I’d love to have TKH shirts with some of our most well known memes (and maybe some graphics to go along with them)…
“Greg Ruined My Marriage”
“No One Expects the Yeti”
Just to name a couple…
A coke machine can get a rebound some nights
Raise the hot hand
“I can play small forward!”
“Fire <insert coach, GM or owner name here>!”
So many choices.
Picture of person wearing Paperbag with caption Kings 3.0
Webber makes it!
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