30 Teams, 30 Days: Sacramento Draft Preview
The Kings had the worst record in the NBA, but will draft 4th on June 25th. If they don't trade up, they will have to weigh selecting for need versus the value of the slot.
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How Did Sactown's 2008 Offseason Pan Out?
The Kings drafted Jason Thompson and re-signed Beno Udrih last offseason, moves that will shape the way the team begins rebuilding this summer.
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An Interview With Jason Hamm
We caught up with Kings assistant coach Jason Hamm recently to discuss the state of the team, their future in Sacramento and who he thinks will battle in both the NBA Finals and the Final Four.
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It’s Time To Slow Down The Coaching Carousel
NBA executives need to take their fingers off the “red button” and thoroughly analyze the ramifications of a coaching change. They should take a look at the timeframe of college football head coaches – four years, on average.
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Hawes And Thompson Bring Hope To Kings
The Kings may not win very many games this season, but Spencer Hawes and Jason Thompson could help bring hope to Sacramento.
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Royal Flush: 2008-09 Sacramento Kings Season Preview
In seemingly under the radar moves, Geoff Petrie has filled his roster with a strong youth movement supplemented by veterans to show them the ropes.
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The NBA Is Fixed?
Fixed? Not in the sense that the title may imply. At least through the eyes of David Stern, "fixed" represents the marketing prowess that the NBA believes that it enjoys worldwide.
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Lottery Summit: Sacramento Kings
Having traded Mike Bibby to the surging Hawks, the Kings are in dire need of a top-flight point guard as they try to turn things around next season.
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Salmons Becoming Quite The Catch
Whenever a player excels in the NBA after an unseen career with another team, the question has to be asked: What river spawned him?
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Begin A Youth Movement?
Should the Kings trade their star veterans that are always injured to try and acquire young talent and aim for the future? Or should they keep this team together with Bibby and Artest and make another push for the playoffs?
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Summer League Analysis: Game 1, Vs. Chinese National Team
The Kings played an aggressive style of basketball and the starting unit looked like they had been the practice squad for the actual Sacramento starting team. They shared the ball and the frontcourt worked their tails off.
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30 Teams, 30 Days: Sacramento Draft Preview
Ideally the Kings would be able to add a lengthy big man who could step back and hit mid-range jumpers as well as rebound, but that type of player is hard to come by these days.
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Always A Spot For Artest?
Ron Artest is such an enigma because he’s NOT just the embodiment of everything wrong with the modern professional athlete, but also of everything the modern professional athlete should be.
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The John Salmons Saga is Finally Over: Analyzing the Signing
After spurning his original agreement with the Toronto Raptors, Salmons sought greener pastures in Sacramento and ends up in a situation where he will be able to contribute right away.
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Musselman Fitted For Throne At Arco
Throughout the press conference, Eric Musselman was witty and showed his vast knowledge of coaching at many different levels of basketball. At one point of the press conference, he even joked that with all of the reports of what a great interviewer he was, he hoped that Joe and Gavin Maloof thought he could coach too.
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Kings Take Step Back With Coaching Move
With the announcement that they won’t renew the contract of head coach Rick Adelman today, Geoff Petrie and the Kings have taken a step back in their quest to return the Kings to the elite level of the NBA. Adelman was the man who put the Kings on the basketball map with an exciting brand of basketball that regularly put the Kings into the discussion of title contenders. Here is who could be the next leader of the Kings.
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Kings Rely On Muscle From Perimeter
With the Kings returning to Arco Arena on Friday night, the Sacramento faithful saw their team in a 0-2 hole and looking like a team that was dead in the water. However, with the help of some buzzer-beating heroics from second-year guard Kevin Martin, the Kings are now back in the series and now have seemed to find a way to stay competitive with the defending champion Spurs.
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The End Of An Era
The winds of change may be blowing through Sacramento. If we were talking about any other GM in the NBA, I would tell you that Rick Adelman has coached his last game for the Kings. In fact, if the coach were still at the helm by the time you read this article, it would be a minor miracle.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
For a city like Sacramento, a taste of success was both blessing and curse. Before, no one knew any better. Just having an NBA team, and seeing the city name on SportsCenter was good enough. Now there are expectations to fulfill. Unfortunately, where the sounds of over 17,000 screaming faithful used to be, there is a bitterly cold wind blowing through. The team is drowning in a sea of uncertainty.
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Good Outweighs Bad In Wells Trade
Bonzi Wells brings the city of Sacramento enormous talent and a shaky history, but overall, his addition will do more good than bad for the Kings.
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Calm Interrupted By A Storm
The off-season had been cancelled due to a lack of interest -- at least where the Kings were concerned. We were all ready to jump it up at center court, for real. No need to waste any more time. Or so we thought.
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Off The Rails Off-Season
The Kings have gone from one of the deepest teams in the league to having only three players they can truly count on: Brad Miller, Peja Stoyakovic, and Mike Bibby. Can rookie Francisco Garcia make an impact?
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Luck Of The Single-Card Draw
When Louisville Cardinals sharpshooter Francisco García was still available at number 23, Geoff Petrie decided it was a stroke of luck – a bolt of destiny. After all, the Kings could have grabbed impact player Wayne Simien, the big bruising forward from Kansas, to contribute some muscle inside.
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The Winds Of Change Are Blowing
A recent interview with King’s mastermind Geoff Petrie was more revealing than usual. The sly guy normally doesn’t give away any part of his hand, but under the circumstances (that being last season’s disappointing effort), he can ill afford to seem complacent.
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Unpredictable Ride Comes To Predictable End
The 2004-2005 campaign dutifully comes to a merciful close, and let’s be honest – why prolong the agony? The Kings failed all year to capture that beloved look, the proud one that every winner wears.
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Who Left The Door Open?
Game 4 was going according to script, and there was the real sense this thing was going back to Seattle tied at two, with the Kings able to ride the momentum to a game five victory, and beyond. Even Peja Stoyakovic had regained his touch, a guaranteed sign of better days ahead.
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Kings Not Having Any Fun Yet
Letting Seattle win the first two games of this series to create interest probably wasn’t part of coach Rick Adelman’s pre-game spiel. But who knows, maybe that’s the way his troops heard it.
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"I Felt Like Superman!"
To the 17,317 delirious fans at Arco Arena, it must have looked like he had just squeezed out of a phone booth -- flexing his muscles and adjusting his cape. Bobby Jackson’s entry into the game in the first quarter was a thing of beauty. The long and painful wait was finally over.
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Kings Playing For More Than Rings
Monday night’s 92-82 loss to the Utah Jazz leaves the Kings one victory shy of the magic 50 for the season, a small indicator of a successful campaign.
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Time to Pick Your Player Scenario
Now that the Kings have officially grabbed their spot, it’s worth taking a birds-view peek at the major cogs in their machine.
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A Team In Search Of… “It”
If anyone knows where “it” is, please let the Kings know.
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The Return Of The Webber Man
Webber received his anticipated raucous ovation from the Sacramento fans, and he seemed genuinely touched – even somewhat embarrassed.
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Kings Enduring An Erratic Journey
With the departure of Vlade Divac, the major trades of Chris Webber and Doug Christie, and the long absence of Bobby Jackson, it figured to take time for the Kings to reassemble and reinvigorate.
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New Faces, Optimistic Schedule Bodes Well
“Get everybody healthy”. Once again, that familiar refrain rings out in Sacramento. Loudly.
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Fan Article: I Love The Kings
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No Blues For This Blueprint
As the dust begins to settle around the Chris Webber trade, the new order of the Kings appears to be taking form.
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Webber Trade Rocks This Town
With Chris Webber traded to Philadelphia, basketball in Sacramento may be in danger.
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The Kings BLOCK: Who Could Be On The Move
Two-time NBA Executive of the Year Geoff Petrie may be up to something. Then again, maybe he’s not.
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Kings Flounder Into All-Star Break
Like polluted, drunken sailors staggering silly out of a bar, the Kings now tumble mercifully into a severely needed vacation. It couldn’t come too soon.
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Frustration Gone Berserk
Brad Miller suspended a game for tossing his sweatbands; Chris Webber fined ten thousand simoleons for drop-kicking the ball a mile; Mike Bibby fined 15 G-notes for not leaving right away.
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Midway Through, Kings Seek Health And Consistency
Despite their current won-loss record of 32-15, fifth best in the NBA, the Kings schedule tabulation spits out gross efforts against pathetic New Orleans on the road, and putrid Golden State at home. In a long season, a few clunkers are to be expected - best get them out of the way early.
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Battered And Bruised, Sacramento Rolls On
Calling it a separation of men from boys may be a bit much, so how about winning through adversity? Yeah, that works - at least for now. What better example than the Kings 94-84 road victory against the Minnesota Timberwolves without stars Peja Stojakovic and Chris Webber.
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C-Webb Is Feeling The Fun
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Kings Continue To Pull At Fan’s Heartstrings
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Maurice Evans Making The Most Of His Chances
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Kings On An Unpredictable Rollercoaster Ride
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Kings Crumble Without Chris? No way
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The Hour Draws Near
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An Off-Season Fit For A King
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DARLINGS OF THE NBA THINKING TITLE.
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Eric Maynor is an increasingly rare four-year, small college rookie. He sat down with RealGM to discuss how his first few weeks of NBA life has gone and what he has learned from Deron Williams and Jerry Sloan.
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After a week that included wins against Denver and Boston, people around the league are starting to get the feeling that this Hawks team might be better than initially thought.
After losing their first three games of the season, Indiana has rattled off four consecutive victories with their defense being surprisingly as strong as their offense. 
The Warriors unloaded Stephen Jackson before he cratered his trade value and now Don Nelson gets to use a simplified rotation as they try to turnaround their season.
For a team that has every reason to question the direction of the franchise, the New Orleans Hornets are actually saying all the right things.
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The Washington Wizards are probably the toughest team to predict in the NBA this season, but we saw good indicators despite a rough night against Atlanta. 
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