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Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson fights to keep Kings from moving to Seattle

Kevin Johnson vows to keep the Kings in his hometown, but deadlines loom and Seattle has its sights on his team.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kevin Johnson knows what it was like in Seattle.

The former NBA point guard remembers the stream of sellout crowds and electric days and nights at the Seattle Center Coliseum and KeyArena.

Last week, when he was in Seattle for meetings at the Gates Foundation on Education, Johnson forgot for a moment that the Sonics no longer exist.

"I honestly was looking through the newspaper trying to figure out if I was going to go to a Seattle SuperSonics game and it just hit me that they don't have a team anymore," said Johnson, wh