This is as much about Sacramento getting tired of supporting a losing team as it is about taxes.
When I arrived in Sacramento in 1987, Rush Limbaugh was a local talk show host, headed for national prominence. The, Kings; not so much.
It was not uncommon for teachers to post no homework assignments on game nights. Season tickets among school age families were common.
Fans dreamed of a season with more than 30 (out of 82) wins, but they still showed up.
In 2002 with Chris Weber and Vlade Divacs the team had their big shot and barely missed beating the Lakers. Then they declined back to winning less than 30 games per season year after year.
The season ticket holding families declined and the demographic shifted to young single men as the fan base. In fact many fan families moved away from California.
The new owners do not have a winning vision as say Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks. These owners are barely solvent.
Sacramento, the 19th largest market in the US; will no longer have a major sports franchise. That’s what happens when the only game in town is government.
The year we went to the the first round of the playoffs with Weber and Divacs against the Lakers was when they lost their heart and soul. (That was when Shaq was allowed to consistently step over the free throw line with no foul called among other offenses.) they were never the same after that last, lost game.
What's Mark Cuban's "Vision", other than blowing up a championship team, and failing to sign free agents?