Disclaimer: I am writing this from an iPad so I expect minor errors.

There seems to be a lot of people who think that the Maloof brothers were simply refusing to sell the Kings until magically one day Chris Hansen offered an amount of money they couldn't refuse. They claim that negotiations could not even take place because the team was not for sale. However, for people like me who have followed this story every single day and turned it into almost an obsession we just know that cant be the case.

The Maloofs have been unhappy in Sacramento for quite some time. I don't really care why. All I know is that in July of 2010 their unhappiness lead George to Seattle to meet with a hero who most here believe to be a villain, Wally Walker. While the meeting was written off as George simply learning from Wally about how Seattle's team ended up leaving the die hard fans like myself hoped that George was actually trying to find out if its viable to relocate the team here.

Steve Kelley was completely clueless when he said the following:

"There was a brief cardio-flutter Monday when the story surfaced that former Sonics president Wally Walker met with Sacramento Kings owner George Maloof. If you were an NBA fan living in Seattle, maybe you got irrational for just a minute. Maybe you thought the Kings really were coming to town. Maybe, for just that minute, you closed your eyes and dreamed about a new team playing in a new Key. Was Walker interested in brokering a deal for the Maloofs to sell the team to the same Steve Ballmer-led group that made an 11th-hour bid two years ago to buy the Sonics and help finance the remodeling of KeyArena? Or was he trying to convince the Kings' owners that they should keep the team and move to Seattle? Or was this nothing? A false alarm? A flutter?"

http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/stevekelley/2012405695_kelley21.html

Little did Steve Kelley know he had broke a huge story almost 3 years early. He completely downplayed the idea that this could be possible though.

Chris Hansen mentioned today that he has been working on this for 833 days. That means he has been working on it since December 22, 2010. We did not hear about Chris Hansen approaching the city of Seattle until over a year after that. It was December 11, 2025 when the story broke about an unnamed investor approaching the city about building an arena in SODO.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2016980415_arena10m.html

Once more was learned about the arena proposalR it became clear that the investor was targeting a specific team. It didn't seem to be clear to people who were not paying close attention but to people good at putting 2 and 2 together it was obvious.

The Sacramento Bee ran a story on February 6th, 2012 about Seattle "Eyeing the Kings".

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/06/4241836/seattle-plans-for-a-new-basketball.html

Today though, it is so often said that no one in Sacramento knew the team was for sale. Chris Hansen sure knew.

I personally believe that it was included in one of the original articles about the city being approached that the Kings were first mentioned as the target. I cannot find an earlier article to support this but I know that it was mentioned very early.

Ok so I'm trying to provide evidence for everything I have to say but my Internet connection keeps acting funny on me and I want to get this over with so you will have to take my word for a few things.

Guess who introduced Chris Hansen to David Stern. Wally Walker

Guess who introduced Chris Hansen to the Nordstroms. Wally Walker.

There are articles to support this ^^^^

Are you getting the picture here?

Maloofs meet with Walker, Walker meets with Hansen, Hansen introduced to investment team, Hansen introduced to Stern, Hansen approaches the city, and you know what has happened since then. This happened in chronological order people. Everything has articles creating a paper trail of everything that had to take place for us to get in this position. It all makes sense.

Oh and about Virginia Beach and Anaheim, both were impossible diversions. Simply took the attention away from the real plan. Be real. No chance of intruding on the Lakers and Clippers and no chance of moving to freaking Virginia Beach.

Chris Hansen has a lot of time and money invested in this and the NBA knew damn well that the Kings were the team he was targeting from the very beginning and continued to encourage him rather than stopping him in his tracks. There is nooooooo way they have him go through all of this just to shut him down in the end. This team will be sold and relocated. Keep the faith. All signs point to it.