Things have been pretty ugly for the Sacramento Kings the last few years. Ever since Robert Horry knocked the life out of the Kings in the 2002 Western Conference Finals, the team has spiraled into irrelevance.
The team was very close to moving to Anaheim before the beginning of last season, and its owners, Joe and Gavin Maloof, have proven to be more aloof than profitable the last few years.
But that’s no excuse to allow your team’s website to go down for more than two months. That’s right. On June 15, kingsteamstore.com went dark, and fans that went to the “Shop” link on the Kings’ home page got a black page with a phone number.
“We had a company that was helping us with our website, and these are lean times in the economy,” Kings spokesman Chris Clark said. “They’re in business one day; the next day they’re gone.”
Blaming the economy. Really original.
It wasn’t until Wednesday, when CBS Sacramento reported the outage, that the team decided to send shoppers to the Kings section of the NBA.com store. The team promises that a new web store will be up within two weeks.