Boogie & Lou on Can’t SUGARCOAT Sacramento Kings Rebuild! WORST Sports Franchise?? – PANIC BUTTON

Boogie & Lou on Can’t SUGARCOAT Sacramento Kings Rebuild! WORST Sports Franchise?? – PANIC BUTTON

All right, we’re sticking with the panic, but it’s kind of crazy how time flies, right? We’re just talking about Jaw two, three years ago, face of the league potentially. Sacramento Kings, we’re lighting the beam. Felt like 20 minutes ago, and now here we are. It’s three and eight start. You got the light switch. Lighting the beam. You steal the beam. Uh bottom five defense in the league. Chant fans are chanting we want Keon Ellis due to his lack of playing time. We got Russell Westbrook out there, which is always fun. He’s got triple doubles as a starter. Move to the bench. Like, it’s kind of chaotic. Um, are we smashing the panic button on the Kings? I think they’ve done it theirelves. I mean, obviously they’re now reporting that they’re looking to, you know, trade key pieces or, you know, the main guys on the team right now. So, I think they hit the panic button before us. So, so we don’t we just Okay, we’ll reiterate it. Yeah. By the way, we’re talking Zack Lavine, Devarna Rosen trading again. Like, this is not cool. But I’m also cool with it for them to get out. Yeah. them my personal partners and and at this stage in their careers, I want them to be happy and I want them to have a real opportunity to compete at a high level being in the third and fourth quarters of their careers and and so if the Sacramento Kings are looking to trade them, that tells me they’ve panicked. Why shouldn’t I panic? Fair enough. You dig? I mean, what about Sabonis? Like I feel like you could have done that last year. Like this this could have been a trade that has already I mean when you got rid of Fox, I feel like you know that was a time to start the rebuild. at least get something back for both of them. But, you know, they tried to keep it afloat. They thought they had a good team, could, you know, add a couple more pieces and keep, you know, moving forward. But, it’s just not the case. Um, I don’t even like speaking on the Kings cuz some reason whatever I say is taken as if I’m bitter or whatever. I Hey, I’mma just keep the facts. The facts. It’s It’s bad. It’s been bad. It’s probably going to continue to be bad unless some things change at the top. DC, that’s See, that’s your prop. See, that’s I mean, I don’t know what else to say. I I can’t I can’t sugarcoat it. Hey, it’s The Kings have a great fan base. I like that. Yes, that’s a plus. That’s a plus. I think that’s important for you to make that distinction. Oh, I love the I love the Kings fan base because the fan that’s a real fan base to me. Whenever you team, the fans think you talking about them. No, never. Great fans. They stick with you through thick and thin. Obviously, they’re good fans. It’s been 20 years of losing and they’re still filling the building up. So, it shows you how much support these fans are have for this team. All they’re looking for is a winning product. And, you know, I still follow a lot of, you know, Kings pages and things like that. And it’s a lot of outrage and and deservingly so. But, like I said, I can’t say too much because I’m the bitter ex, but the facts are the facts. Facts are facts. Whether you like them or not, 18 years it’s been since they’ve won a playoff series. They’ve had these guys go through those doors. Darren Fox, Tyresese Hallebert, and DaVon Mitchell, and they’re all quite well. They’re doing well in this league, uh, as of now, which doesn’t make things look better. Um, and looking across the sports world, like as far as poorly run organizations, I I look, I hate to do a top five, that seems really macob, but they’re up there. I mean, that is that is a long run without a playoff win. And, as you said, a fan base that continues to stick by them. I don’t know what changes that you allude to other than I don’t know. Obviously, the changes are at the top. I mean, every good organization, it starts at the top. It It doesn’t ownership or Yes. It doesn’t start with play. No matter how much y’all want to try to push that nerve, it starts at the top. And the top don’t have it together, so the bottom’s not going to be together. Simple as that. There was that run. We were lighting a beam, you guys. We lit a beam. What happened? We lit a few. We did. We lit a few. And I like I like what Doug Christie was was doing when he when he initially got that job. He tried to bring some morale, tried to bring some new and excitement, some new energy, and tried to build community by by creating, you know, light the beam thing and got the guys on the roof of the building and all of that. You’re trying to build culture. I I respect that, but we hadn’t heard a lot about lighting beams lately. And so, at that point, to Boogie to Boogie’s point, you got to start looking at the top because the talent’s been there. I just feel like when they had their opportunity to to turn, they made the playoffs that year, like the beam. That next season or going into that next season, nothing was done to improve the team. Everybody in the West improved except the Kings. They they stayed the same and then things started to go backwards. So, I’m not sure. I I I don’t know what the the vision is. I I I don’t think they should have ever fired Mike Brown. Should have never got rid of De’Aran Fox. It’s just some things you got to tweak. it was a team that was that wasn’t performing like they were the year before. So, you tweak it, you add better pieces, you do things of that nature to to continue to improve. They went the opposite direction. They got rid of Fox, they got rid of the coach, and these are the results. It’s so frustrating as a fan when you can like, oh, it’s we’re getting somewhere and then all of a sudden it’s just yanked away. It’s almost like they they settled. It was like, all right, we you know, we’re we’re happy just making the play. Yeah. Nobody’s happy. And then it was nothing else after that. That’s that’s not how it works. You continue to build. All right, taking a quick break. Wrapping things up on the other side. I almost did it too early. That was

On November 12, 2025 episode of ‘Run It Back’ on FanDuel TV, co-hosts Michelle Beadle, Chandler Parsons, Boogie Cousins, and Lou Williams react to Golden State Warriors vs Oklahoma City Thunder, Denver Nuggets vs Sacramento Kings! They also wonder if the Dallas Mavericks should blow up their team after firing Nico Harrison & if Ja Morant should be traded by Memphis Grizzlies after slow start and new coaching.

FULL EPISODE HERE: https://youtube.com/live/p3Q9VM45eS0

CHAPTERS
0:00 PANIC BUTTON
0:15 SACRAMENTO KINGS
2:58 KINGS WORST SPORTS FRANCHISE?

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