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Graswich on Kings rumor mill

Posted October 9, 2006 at 11:16 AM by CoolDMZ in Downtown (No comments)

If you missed R.E. Graswich today he leads with an awesome piece of Kings/arena gossip:

Bumped into Joe Benvenuti the other night. Joe, the developer who wrote the check to bring the Kings to Sacramento in 1985, had a scoop. He said he was thinking about selling his 31 percent ownership in the team. And there was something else. “It’s my understanding they have an agreement to move the team to Anaheim,” Joe said. “I expect to read about it in The Bee.”
“There is no such deal and there have been no discussions,” said Kings president John Thomas. “I’m sure Mr. Benvenuti was joking. I talked to him shortly after you did, and he was telling lots of jokes. I’m sure that was one of them.” Benvenuti, who financed Gregg Lukenbill’s dream to purchase the Kings for $10 million, said Sunday he was not joking. But his sources may be questionable. “The Anaheim deal was a rumor,” Joe said. “Everyone’s talking about it.” …



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