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[DC News Now] BREAKING: DC’s attorney general told Monumental Sports on Monday they can’t move the Washington Capitals and Wizards from DC until 2047, citing a 2007 bond/lease agreement.


Context: Wizards owner Ted Leonsis was trying to move the Wizards to Virginia unless he got $600 million in public funding from Washington D.C in order to upgrade Capital One arena, which Washington has held firm in standing their ground.

by DeadlyPirate

35 Comments

  1. lopea182

    Maybe they will have another 50-win season by then

  3. SquimJim

    #BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. poeope

    He finished the press conference off with Tatums kiss of death

  6. MyNameIsAMeme

    I pray for the day the government uses Eminent Domain for good and doesn’t let these teams hold cities and states hostage.

  7. ForneauCosmique

    >[DC News Now] BREAKING: DC’s attorney general told Monumental Sports on Monday

    I saw this and thought there was a betting scandal

  9. Wedundidit00

    Just in time for Jordan Poole’s signature 2048 season

  11. whobjohn

    Nice to see the pan-NBA support here! Get fucked Ted!

  12. Next-Firefighter-753

    I saw the Wizards/Kings game last night only had like 14K people at it which is crazy low for an NBA game in a populated city. Ted crying himself to sleep with the wads of $100 bills he uses as pillows tonight. 

  13. shannon_g

    Grateful that the District negotiated sensibly back in 2007 to get a fair commitment in return for the large sum raised through the bonds.

    I regularly get calls from their sales team but the location in Chinatown and the visiting team are the two best reasons to see a Wizards game.

  14. jt21295

    Good for DC. Leonsis’s plan was stupid enough on its own, but to spend so much on planning the move before making sure that the move is even legally possible in the first place is so brain-dead that I wonder how he’s able to remember to breathe.

    I still doubt he’s stupid enough to go to court over this though. Sports team owners REALLY don’t like pushing their luck in federal court because if you get an unfavorable ruling, you’ve just set precedent and eliminated a lot of grey area to maneuver in.

  15. StellarStar1

    is the current owner the same one who signed the lease all those years ago? NVM He wasn’t but he was a minorty one so he should have known about this.

  17. InefficientEngine

    They are going to tank to be 0-82 and pull an Oakland A’s in protest of the lease

  23. KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ

    Nice.

    Get fucked ted

    Deliver on an actual nba product before moving

  24. AdmiralUpboat

    Hahaha fuck you Ted! You thought you were gonna hold the city ransom or you were gonna move your garbage team? lmao. Get fucked you greedy piece of shit.

  26. CupOfHotTeaa

    Ownership seems to forget DC is technically a big market they just don’t do anything to make the team/franchise better

  29. TheNerdgasm

    I’m very staunchly pro-city and the citizens so I love this. But how stupid is Ted Leonsis? Of all the cities to try to play bully ball with, you pick DC? The center of all our power brokers in this nation? You really thought you’d out piss the heart and soul of the most massive bureaucracy the world has ever seen?

  31. Jethro_Cull

    I thought the DC arena was pretty new and nice. Ridiculous to try to move the team.

  32. alluring_amelia

    Wizards to Virginia? Not over DC’s dead budget!

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