Melody Gutierrez of the Sacramento Bee: "The Kings' average ticket prices are the league's seventh-highest, but there are still ways to attend a game on a piggy-bank budget. On March 7, I abandoned my media credential and courtside seat for a date in Arco's upper reaches, where people watching and fan interaction rivaled the entertainment provided by the game between the Kings and the Minnesota Timberwolves far below. What was discovered is that a person could attend -- and enjoy -- a Kings game while keeping the cost about the same as for a night at the movies or a casual dinner out."

Seth Kolloen writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "If the Sonics won the NBA championship, they'd probably draw a million people to the victory parade. But when Save Our Sonics organized a protest Monday against the Sonics moving, they barely drew a hundred. Points out something that's as much of a truism in sports as it is in politics -- it's a lot easier to get people psyched to support something than to oppose it. That's why people who oppose abortion call themselves pro-life, why those against oil drilling call themselves pro-conservation. The Save Our Sonics movement hasn't really caught on, because it's never been clear what saving the Sonics means: Does it mean we're for taxes to fund a new arena? For demanding that the team stay in the arena we built for them? Or what?"