Episode 49: Greg Lukenbill and his history with the Sacramento Kings.

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Grant Napear

Football, Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is a little slice of history today that takes us back to the genesis of the Sacramento Kings. Without the gentleman I'm interviewing, there never would have been a team in town. There would be no arena and there would never have been the oh so close, Sacramento Raiders. That's right. To hear how that almost came to be and how the Kings made it here, join me in the conversation with Greg Lukenbill. A 28 year old real estate developer that made it all happen. You'll also get his perspective on the possibility of soccer becoming even greater than the success of the Kings. Bring it on, MLS! It's college basketball finals. Madness, just like that mess you've got going on down there. You know what I'm talkin' about. Get a little team discipline going and clean it up like a player after a tough game. Here's what you need to do to keep that raging bush under control and ready for action. Check out your personal grooming products from Manscaped. You're going to love their stuff. You'll also love the deal when you type in NAPES in the discount code and get free shipping plus a 20% discount! Men's grooming by the best in the biz. Baseballs aren't the only balls getting fired up about Spring. Be sure you're ready too. www.Manscaped.com. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	David saw that when I was when we had 23 teams in the NBA he saw the Sacramento was a city
0:06.7	that someday was going to be one of the most dynamic cities in the United States. And now, Grand Napier! My guest today, his name is anonymous with Sacramento.
0:33.6	When you hear the name Lucanville, you think Sacramento.
0:36.7	When you hear the name Lucanville, you realize why there's
0:39.6	NBA basketball and professional sports in Sacramento the man that brought the
0:44.9	NBA to Sacramento back in the mid-80s Greg Lucanbill joins me right here on the
0:51.2	podcast how are you sir I am probably one of the luckiest people
0:55.4	who ever walked on the planet and you live in the dream brother. You are living the
0:59.4	dream. You know I'm wondering had you not brought the NBA to Sacramento?
1:04.2	Had you not brought professional sports to Sacramento?
1:08.1	What do you think Sacramento would be like today?
1:11.2	It hasn't changed that much even with professional sports.
1:13.6	I mean, it's better, a little bit better, but it's not what it could be by any spread
1:16.4	to the imagination.
1:18.0	But you know, what Sacramento was from the time I grew up here where you could drive in the city of Sacramento basically condemned itself to this destiny and they're not that far out of it at the moment but they're trying really hard and that is you could drive from it'll literally drive from
1:33.3	Rio Linda to Meadowview through slums that would have qualified as
1:38.9	disadvantaged housing non-stop for probably 20 miles and all in the city and that's the
1:46.4	Sacramento I grew up in and so Sacramento had this philosophy that they adopted
1:51.7	brought to you by the 1970s of what I would call the permanent
1:58.0	perpetuation of mediocrity and that's what I grew up in.
2:01.6	Yeah I'm wondering. And that's what I grew up in. Hmm.
2:03.0	I'm wondering, when you bought the Kings to Sacramento in 1985,
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