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Kings Fans Confused Since Deal's Collapse

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On a brilliantly sunny Sunday afternoon in Sacramento, the weather inside Power Balance Pavilion settled in cloudy with a 100 percent chance of continued uncertainty – leaving the basketball public with no clear picture on the future of the local professional team.

With the people in charge of working out a deal on the Kings' arena tangled up in chaos, how were the people who pay the bills and fill the seats supposed to react? How were they supposed to feel?

They didn't have a clue.

"Strange," is the way Kings fan and Here We Stay activist Kevin Fippin described his mood, the day the Kings put a seven-game losing streak to rest with a second-half comeback that beat the Portland Trail Blazers, 104-103.

"I honestly don't know how to feel at the...

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