Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011 | 2:25 p.m.
Sacramento Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof were the fun-loving bachelors who brought Las Vegas sizzle to a state government town and its disconnected suburbs.
And now? The Maloofs, pondering a franchise move to Anaheim, are silent. The Kings are losing. Embattled and frustrated over failed attempts to build a new Sacramento arena, the Maloofs have found themselves depicted as princes of petulance, team owners who are anything but team players.
"I think they, like all team owners and fabulously wealthy people, long to be loved," communications consultant Doug Elmets, who worked with the Maloofs in a 2006 campaign to publicly finance a downtown arena, said in a Sacramento Bee report. "And they despise being scorned. Unfortunately, in this community, they have experienced both."
Read the full Sacramento Bee story.
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