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From today’s Free Press and last night’s sports talk shows.

Kings say they're sorry for slamming Detroit's image

November 10, 2005

BY KRISTA LATHAM
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER

Although the Sacramento Kings apologized Wednesday for displaying negative images of Detroit during pregame introductions, the NBA began an investigation into the incident that could result in fines.
Before the Pistons beat the Kings, 102-88, Tuesday night at Arco Arena in Sacramento, fans were shown a montage of negative images of Detroit on the scoreboard above center court. They included abandoned buildings, boarded-up houses, burned cars and piles of construction rubble.
This story goes on to say how sorry the higher-ups in the Kings organization are. They even ran full-page ads in the Detroit dailies expressing their remorse. And even later in the article, it mentions how hard the team’s director of event presentation, Leland Patton is, “distraught today, like we all are, but he's in bad shape. He feels horrible emotionally."

Leland Patton can fuck himself with a fire hydrant. He knew what he was doing. Somewhere in a control room, on an editing machine at Arco Arena, someone was splicing that thing together going “Oh man, this is beautiful.” And he signed off on it. And if he didn’t sign off on it, he’s a dumb fuck for not keeping an eye on his minions.

Motherfuck the Sacramento Kings and anyone else who wants to talk shit. You’re not from here, don’t nobody know you or love you here, and you’re pulling a move perfect for a bitch-made little fuck, dogging our city from the comfort of some 2,000-plus miles away.

And above else, this was inspired by and displayed during a professional basketball contest. The Kings, last time I checked, were a group of classic underachievers. One thing they forgot to put up on that screen were Detroit’s 3 national championships. Fucking fags.