Maloofs are willing?

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Joe Copeland Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Maloofs are willing?</h1>
                <h2><p>Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says he expects the Maloof brothers are willing to sell to a Sacramento group that is bidding for the NBA Kings. Johnson made the remarks as he was preparing to board a plane for Dallas where he'll attend the NBA Board of Governors meeting.</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/joe-copeland-crosscut-com/">Joe Copeland</a></p> 
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            <p>Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says he expects the Maloof brothers are willing to sell to a Sacramento group that is bidding for the NBA Kings. Johnson <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/14/5419788/heading-to-dallas-mayor-johnson.html?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">made the remarks </a>as he was preparing to board a plane for Dallas where he'll attend the NBA Board of Governors meeting. The board is supposed to decide on Wednesday whether the team can move to Seattle. The Maloofs, of course, just negotiated a backup deal with the Chris Hansen-led investment group that would give the Seattle investor 20 percent ownership of the team, even if the league rejects his bid to bring the Kings to Seattle. Johnson apparently failed to cite a reason for his belief, so we'll take that to mean his statement about the Maloofs is as rational as everything else about the NBA. But we give Johnson this: There's every reason to think he's right to be optimistic about keeping the team in Sacramento.</p>
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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says he expects the Maloof brothers are willing to sell to a Sacramento group that is bidding for the NBA Kings. Johnson made the remarks as he was preparing to board a plane for Dallas where he'll attend the NBA Board of Governors meeting. The board is supposed to decide on Wednesday whether the team can move to Seattle. The Maloofs, of course, just negotiated a backup deal with the Chris Hansen-led investment group that would give the Seattle investor 20 percent ownership of the team, even if the league rejects his bid to bring the Kings to Seattle. Johnson apparently failed to cite a reason for his belief, so we'll take that to mean his statement about the Maloofs is as rational as everything else about the NBA. But we give Johnson this: There's every reason to think he's right to be optimistic about keeping the team in Sacramento.

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi