A preliminary maps for the new arena collapsed, leaving open the possibility of the team owner could try again to leave the capital city of California.
"Is it much dead? As we know, absolutely," Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson said Friday.
The Maloof family has reached the agreement last month, struggled, and although they want to stay in Sacramento say, Johnson is not so sure, after a meeting with them on Friday and listening to their list concerns he had said, so far unknown.
"It just feels like they were coming up with reasons why not do the trick," said Johnson.
So a year after Johnson came to New York to begin his fight to save the team loses his city at risk again.
Certainly, he was angry and questioning the Maloofs' reliability, praised the efforts of Johnson to his city, but said he did not know what will happen now.
"Now they say they do not want to get the business, which means they do not want to be in Sacramento, and this is done very, very disappointing," he said.
The Kings say something else.
"We want to have the Sacramento Kings are committed to the" The team said in a statement.
But she stressed - and the EU Commissioner David Stern - that the agreement was "not binding", and the Maloofs have always had the right to decide, they were no longer conditions.
"The negotiations that took place around, as Commissioner Stern has repeatedly stated during his press conference today, to non-binding framework," not even in a business that is good for the city and was good for the team, "said the king.
It was a disappointing result and surprisingly fast for officials from Sacramento, who thought they were on their way to holding the team a few weeks ago.
They had met officials of the league and Maloofs during the NBA All-Star weekend in Orlando in February to celebrate an agreement in principle to the estimated $ 391 million arena for the 2015-16 season in downtown Open Sacramento rail yards would be funded.
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