Sacramento Kings season thread | 32-48 | 4/13 @ HOU 5pm

Wcs at the mix last night lol my homegirl had the thirst. She told me he was the third overall pick [emoji]128529[/emoji]
 
Yup pretty sure I saw WCS from a distance while I was at Firestone last night :lol:

The worst is JT....son STAYS begging for people to buy him drinks at Social :smh:
 
Why didn't any of yall tell me there was jack crap at the Vacaville outlets before I got here :smh:
 
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rck3sactown said:
Why didn't any of yall tell me there was jack crap at the Vacaville outlets before I got here :smh:
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Are there pegusas 31s there :nerd: saw some a few weeks ago but didn't pick them up

Need running shoes for longer distances [emoji]128557[/emoji][emoji]128557[/emoji][emoji]128557[/emoji]
 
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They had FSR I think? I don't remember tbh

I was too flustered with their selection to really pay attention to anything.

It was a black camo dri fit running tee, their dri fit running stuff is 50% off
 
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@rck let me know next time you plan to make that trip. I can let you know if the nike trip is worth while. Traffic on 80 on Sunday's is not the business
 
i vote to have RCK banned from this and all future Sacramento Kings threads......
rck3sactown said:
I can definitely vouch for @Chester McFloppy  and myself in say, this was easily the greatest decision of our lives

look at us winning 

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Ailene Voisin ‎@ailene_voisin

George Karl in Denver for daughter's swim meet (only 2 of 8 he can attend) and annual birthday party for his two grandkids. Absence noted.
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Family reasons. Medical reasons. Same thing. Anything to get a resignation.
 
/r/nba post that we can all agree and empathize with:


I've made posts about this before but I'm bored so let's do it again.

Title is correct: Kings are the unluckiest franchise in the NBA.

Let's start out with the lottery.

The Kings' 1st season in Sacramento was 1985-86. The first draft pick we ever made was in the 1985 Draft, same year that the lottery was introduced, so we've been tied with lottery since our inception as the Sacramento Kings.

We just completed our 30th season in Sacramento. We have made the playoffs 10 times, including an 8 year run from 1998-99 through 2005-06. We have never made the NBA Finals, although WE SHOULD HAVE IN 2002 BUT GOT ROBBED AND THE TITLE WAS INSTEAD HANDED TO OUR ARCH NEMESIS LOS ANGELES LAKERS. After Webber went down with a horrific injury the following season, our window had officially closed. 2002 has been our lone Conference Championship appearance in 30 years, and we have missed the playoffs for 9 years in a row and counting.

On the other side of that coin, we have been in the lottery for 20 out of our 30 seasons in Sacramento. Out of those 20 lotteries we finished with the worst record once (2009, we ended up with the 4th pick) and finished in the bottom-3 two other times. Out of those 3 seasons, we ended up with one Top-3 pick. That was 1991. NINETEEN NINETY ONE! WE HAVEN'T PICKED IN THE TOP 3 SINCE 199FREAKING1! whooo okay ok.

1991!!! THAT WAS 14 GODDAM LOTTERIES AGO!!!!!!

Ok

We were lucky enough to win the lottery once! Back in 1989. I bet you can't tell me who we picked though! Most Kings fans sure as hell can't. Pervis Ellison. Never-Nervous Pervis! In our defense he was the consensus #1 pick that year. Not much of an NBA career for ol' Pervis, though. Not entirely his fault, he was injured a lot. But, many people said his head just wasn't entirely in the game. What a shame. Passed on Shawn Kemp, Tim Hardaway, and a bunch of other really solid guys for Pervis.

Unfortunately for Kings fans, 1989 was the only year we ever "moved up" in the lottery. One time in 20 tries. We're pretty good at "moving down" though. We've done that 10 times, more times than we kept our own pick.

As if that wasn't bad enough, we've done an absolutely horrible job of drafting with the picks we got. The Kings have drafted 1 All-Star in those 20 lotteries. Just The BoogieMan holdin' it down in SacTown. In fact, the only other All-Star the Kings have ever drafted was Peja Stojakovic. 30 years of Draft picks has netted us 2 All-Stars. Pathetic.

Now, that's not to say that we haven't had All-Stars available to us. Quite the contrary! We have passed up over a dozen guys that ended up being Hall of Fame players. Even some of our better Draft picks ended up coming at the cost of more talented players. In 1998 we took Jason Williams 7th overall out of Florida. He was one of the most entertaining players ever to step on the court. However, I would have been a lot more happy with Dirk Nowitzki (9th) or Paul Pierce (10th). Hell, even Peja was drafted one pick before Steve Nash! Tyreke won Rookie of the Year in 2009, but Steph Curry was taken 3 picks later. AND THOSE ARE THE 3 OF THE BEST PICKS WE HAVE EVER MADE BESIDES DEMARCUS COUSINS!!!

Then you have the rip-your-hair-out WHAT THE **** WERE YOU THINKING picks we've made over the years. In 2012 the Kings absolutely LOVED Damian Lillard. He absolutely blew them away in workouts but they didn't think he would fall to 5th. But Thomas Robinson, who didn't even work out for us (and whom former King Scot Pollard warned then-GM Geoff Petrie against due to being Kansas' play-by-play man and being a non-believer in his NBA potential), fell to 5th and we took him instead. He was so bad they traded him 3/4ths of the way through his rookie year while Lillard won ROY. In 2011 we were absolutely desperate for a SF. The running joke over on SacTown Royalty at the time was "well can he play 3?" literally any time a basketball player was mentioned. It was horrible. We had the 7th pick in that draft. Our pick came up, and Kawhi Leonard (who was high on most boards) and Klay Thompson were both available. What did we do? We traded our pick to Charlotte along with Beno Udrih for JOHN GODDAM SALMONS and the #10 pick, and then used that pick on Jimmer ************* Fredette. We've all seen how that turned out.

This isn't even nitpicking I could keep going all day. I'll spare you the trouble and just show you some of the guys that we passed on in our very first draft in Sacramento, back in 1985, which set the stage for the next 30 years:

Karl Malone Chris Mullin Joe Dumars Terry Porter Detlef Schrempf Charles Oakley

Who did we take in that draft? http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kleinjo01.html

The Kings are the unluckiest, and probably the stupidest team, in the NBA.

Nothing else needs to be said.

But I'm going to do it anyway.

This doesn't even include all of the front office and ownership ******** we have gone through over the years. The Maloofs were probably the worst owners in the history of the NBA. They tanked 3 different arena deals. They infamously told the people of Sacramento that they couldn't afford to contribute to a new arena, so we would have to pay for the whole thing on our own while they owned it outright and kept all of the revenue. This was right around the time they made a Carl's Jr commercial bragging about drinking a $6,000 bottle of wine with a $6 burger, filmed inside of the billion dollar flop of a casino they built off-strip (morons) in Vegas. They stripped the team down to bare bones salary wise, even going below the salary floor just to save money. They sold picks off for cash. Then after all of that, they decided to move the team away. They tried for 3 years publicly, and allegedly 4 more years privately, to move the team. First it was Anaheim, then Virginia, then Vegas, and then Seattle. They made a shady deal with Seattle investors to sell the team away without even offering it to anyone in Sacramento first. It was a horrible time to be a Kings fan.

Then we got saved by Vivek Ranadive. He swooped in and overpaid for the team. He threw down a buttload of money to help build a new arena, giving the city a pretty fair deal in the process. He and his ownership group are going to invest around $1 Billion in the heart of our city's formerly-dilapidated downtown when it's all said and done. Wow! That sounds just amazing typing that all out.

Of course there's another side to that. Like the part where he hired his first coach before bothering to hire a GM. Then he hired Denver's former assistant GM, and it turns out that guy and the coach didn't really get along. Fortunately the coach got along really well with the
team's mercurial superstar so everything was ok. Until one day shortly into the coach's sophomore season they decided to wake up one morning and FIRED HIS *** out of nowhere. Then they dubbed Tyrone Corbin as his replacement. Then they fired his *** too and replaced him with George Karl. Then they brought in Vlade to run the show even though they already had Chris Mullin (heh) doing that job, so Mullin bounced. Then the GM bounced to Denver to join up with the coach they fired that set the whole chain-reaction off in the first goddam place. Now we have Vlade running the show with Karl coaching the team, but Vlade didn't hire Karl so they don't see eye-to-eyeon everything. Then it comes out in the media that Karl doesn't particularly like Boogie the Mercurial Superstar and wants to trade him…to the GODDAM LAKERS ARE YOU ******* KIDDING ME GEORGE GOD DAMMIT I SWEAR TO GOD

whew

ok. We're all right. Calm down.

Basically what I'm trying to say is, it ain't easy to be a Kings fan.
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