Kings' Move to Anaheim Could Screw Up Lakers' $3 Billion TV Deal
For all those not so attuned to the world of professional basketball, one of the biggest stories floating around the NBA right now is that the billionaire Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacramento Kings, want to close up shop in Sacramento and take their team to Anaheim. The potential move has left plenty of people wondering why the Southland needs a third NBA franchise. Well, as ESPNLos Angeles’ Arash Markazi reports, it’s all about timing:
Last month the Lakers agreed to an unprecedented 20-year television agreement with Time Warner Cable to distribute Lakers games and original programming across two regional sports networks in HD that will include the nation’s first Spanish-language regional sports network.
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