{"id":11197,"date":"2013-01-21T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11197"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:30:19","slug":"kings-move-to-seattle-progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11197","title":{"rendered":"Kings Move To Seattle Progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7811\" title=\"basketball\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/basketball.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Two people familiar with the decision says the Maloof family has agreed to sell the Sacramento Kings to a Seattle group led by investor Chris Hansen.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The people spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Sunday night because the deal is still pending approval from the NBA Board of Governors.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One person said the Maloofs are selling all 65 percent of their share for $525 million to Hansen, who will move the team to Seattle and restore the SuperSonics name.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Maloofs will still be allowed to look at other bids until the league approves the sale.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said last week he had received permission from NBA Commissioner David Stern to present a counteroffer to league owners from buyers who would keep the Kings in Sacramento.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The deadline for teams to apply for a move for the next season is March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Two people familiar with the decision says the Maloof family has agreed to sell the Sacramento Kings to a Seattle group led by investor Chris Hansen. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The people spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Sunday night because the deal is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11197\/revisions\/11198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}