Maloofs, City Officials Sling Words
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Just weeks ago, not soon after Valentine's Day, love permeated at Power Balanced Pavilion and the Maloofs were crying with joy.
In Florida, a warm embrace with city officials was a new beginning to a new arena and a glorious relationship with the kingdom.
Now, it's a different story.
"I am baffled to say the least on how we ended up here," said Mayor Kevin Johnson.
The warm, fuzzy kingdom feeling quickly crumbled when the Maloofs announced the deal was off and stinging shots fired across the bow.
In a statement released to CBS13 Saturday night, the Sacramento grassroots organization Think BIG committee said of the Maloofs:
"As their bizarre press conference laid bare for all to see, dealing with the Maloofs is like dealing with the north Koreans - except they are less competent."
In the same week that the deal feel apart, the North Koreans, defying world opinion, couldn't get their ballistic missile to work right. Just like the arena deal, it fell apart and plummeted into the yellow sea. Just like North Korea's bizarre communist world, the Think BIG committee continued with their comparisons.
"In Maloof-world, facts are fiction; truths are half-truths; and promises are broken promises. The city of Sacramento deserves better," the statement read.
There seems to be no love lost between the Maloofs and city officials.
"I don't think I'd want to negotiate with the mayor. Maybe there's someone else that I'd feel more comfortable with. We're disappointed in comments made by the mayor that we feel were shots to us that were unfair and not truthful," said George Maloof to USA Today.
