Seven years ago this weekend, in this same Staples Center interview room, then-NBA Commissioner David Stern confirmed that the Maloofs were engaged in serious negotiations to relocate the Kings franchise to Anaheim.
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So this is progress. No one is threatening to flee, Golden 1 Center is thriving, the urban transformation is ongoing, and understandably, the Kings and the city are becoming a little greedy. They are tag-teaming on a bid to land a future All-Star Game that the league routinely dangles as a reward for communities that bend, borrow and whatever, to finance a modern facility.