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The Sacramento Kings owners have put in for an extension for more time to work on moving the team to the Honda Center in Anaheim, Ca. They don’t have much of a choice after screwing the remaining season ticket holders all year with discounted seats that undercut the price long time season ticket holders pay.

It would appear to be a calculated move by the Magoofs. They’ve been bitching about not having a suitable arena after trashing the team the last few years and leaving the fans with the lowest payroll in the league and one of the worst records. They couldn’t fill a new arena if they wanted to with the crap they’ve given the fans after the heydays with Chris Webber and Vlade Divac.

Good luck to Anaheim with the greedy bastards who care only about the money and nothing about the fans. Things started to unravel shortly after the run for the NBA Finals around 2003 with the team cutting payroll, making bad decisions and jacking up the fans for more money year after year.

They priced most of the fans out of the arena before they even got to be one of the worst teams in the NBA and now fans are furious with the news of moving to Anaheim. The Magoofs screwed up big time by taking one of the best small market cities for the NBA with the loudest fans and turned it into a tomb.

And now they thank the fans in the midst of an economic downturn by blaming it all on them for not building an arena for them in Sacramento when they are the ones that screwed up. 

The Sacramento Kings have to move somewhere at this point. Most of the remaining season ticket holders will dump their seats after this fiasco by the Vegas brothers. Too bad they still own the just renamed Arco Arena and Sacramento will have to live with them until a new arena can be built.

The Sacramento Kings announced a sellout for last night’s Kings vs Lakers game at Arco Arena. But the truth was obvious if you checked Ticketmaster just hours before the game. Up to one thousand seats were still showing on the Ticketmaster web site before the game and nobody can convince me the walk up crowd bought up the remaining overpriced tickets.

The Sacramento Kings were trying out the new variable ticket pricing for last nights game and it appeared to be a failure. In the last few days more and more tickets kept appearing for sale at prices ranging from $89.50 to $369 per seat. The $369 seat is just a $165 face value ticket jacked up over $200 per ticket for the Lakers game. But the Kings tickets did not sell well at all on Ticketmaster the day of the game at the same time ticket brokers were selling out by undercutting the prices Ticketmaster was charging.

This is part of the new fan friendly pricing strategy going on in the NBA to increase revenue and give fans a better price on the poor games while gauging fans on the big games. And to be fair the Kings have lowered the price of that $165 ticket for the bad teams such as the Detroit Pistons. The problem is you can save only $18 by paying only $147 for the usual $165 ticket for the Pistons, while the game you want to see is jacked up over $200 per ticket.

In this day and age you cannot go out in public like the NBA and the Sacramento Kings have done to say they are doing the fans a favor when anyone with an internet connection can see the opposite is true. If you check with a ticket broker and compare NBA ticket prices you may find the same situation as with the Miami Heat and Sacramento Kings where you can get the best price for NBA tickets from ticket brokers.

The NBA is in trouble in a lot of markets and it’s not the fans fault, it’s the greed of the owners and players that is keeping fans away. David Stern can blame Sacramento for not supporting a new arena but when you run off your fans by overcharging them,you get what you deserve. They’ll watch it on tv or buy tickets from the ticket brokers you’ve been marketing to all summer.

Concert fans trying to buy tickets for  a show often wonder what happens to the good seats for concerts because they have no luck on their own. The Sacramento Bee is reporting today that the British oil giant BP has been giving away tickets to lawmakers, staff and relatives of staff for years.

Sacramento Kings tickets were given out in large numbers and concerts at the Arco Arena were also very popular free tickets. Since BP currently has the naming rights to Arco Arena they were given a suite and extra tickets for events that they then gave to state officials who do not think they were high enough $$ amounts to influence decision making.

There were several sections next to the stage that were set aside for just this purpose so the next time you go to buy a ticket at Arco Arena and you cannot sit near the stage, look over and see if you recognize any politicians. Then go over and ask them if they can help you get free tickets in the best seats as well.