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Breton: Maloofs' future NBA success anything but a slam dunk

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:34pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- With momentum building to secure a downtown arena with the Kings as anchor tenants, Sacramento needs to know:

How can the current Kings owners retain control of the team and be successful?

Everyone knows that the Maloof brothers want to remain NBA owners more than anything.

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Breton: NBA model just doesn't work in Sacramento

Marcos Breton, Sacramento Bee

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 7:54pm

If the Kings leave Sacramento after 26 years, it's not because any one person is at fault or the community failed.

The NBA simply doesn't work in Sacramento, and it won't unless the league changes its financial structure so teams without big TV contracts can remain viable by sharing in revenue more equitably.

Even back in 1999, when the Maloof family took over the franchise, the Kings were deeply in debt. It wouldn't surprise me if the debts have swelled, if the Kings have borrowed $100 million from the NBA to go along with the $77 million they owe the city.

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Breton: McGwire takes hits, but it's our fault

Marcos Breton Sacramento Bee

Last updated Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 6:18pm

The sight of Mark McGwire in the late 1990s was an awesome spectacle. He had shoulders like tank engines, the chest of a hulk and biceps that weren't guns - they were cannons.

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New King's ascent to the NBA has had its challenges

Marcos Breton

Last updated Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 6:30pm

CHESTER, Pa. -- The newest hope of a sagging Sacramento Kings franchise is a teenage basketball prodigy from decayed urban streets where no one -- no matter how gifted -- truly escapes unscathed.
At 19, Tyreke Evans is a celebrated, 6-foot-5-inch point guard bound for Arco Arena with a personal narrative both harrowing and uplifting. The player Kings fans hope to see is an NBA version of the shy but powerful athlete who has dominated all previous opponents and soared to the rim at will.
"It hasn't really hit me yet," Evans said last week "The night of the NBA draft, I got 185 text messages. I don't know that many people."

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