Last week voters in Seattle and in Sacramento voted against public funding for basketball teams.

Seattle approved a measure that bans all civic subsidies for professional sports unless certain conditions are met: it applies to the city, not to the state, which means that the Storm and the Sonics could still end up in Bellevue, Wash. The county and the state might try to help.

Voters in Sacto canned a measure that would have funded a new downtown arena: some say the Las Vegas-based team owners wanted the measure to lose. Sacto State policy prof Robert Waste: "If they were trying to sabotage [the arena plan] from Day 1, I don’t think they’d have done anything differently.”

SI's Ian Thomsen ponders where the Kings and the Monarchs could move.