Updated: January 25, 2013, 7:03 am ET

Can Billionaire Save Sacramento Kings?

By HOOPSWORLD
Basketball News & NBA Rumors

Sacramento Kings minority owner Bob Cook told The Sacramento Bee today that he has asked a Bay Area sports attorney to broker a meeting between Larry Ellison, the third-richest man in America, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in hopes of helping Johnson’s effort to find a buyer willing to keep the Sacramento Kings in town.

Ellison, if interested, would be the biggest whale yet. Forbes magazine places his net worth at an estimated $41 billion. He recently purchased the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which had been up for sale for a reported $500 million to $600 million.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/24/5139356/kings-minority-owner-says-oracles.html#storylink=cpy

via Tony Bizjak, Dale Kasler and Ryan Lillis of The Sacramento Bee

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