Why The NBA Should Disband The Sacramento Kings

Why The NBA Should Disband The Sacramento Kings

The NBA has been hit with some ugly stuff over the past year. A massive trade scandal shook the league. Four current and former players were banned for illegal gambling. And the so-called best player in the world is getting away with so much that it genuinely feels like the league is playing favorites and manufacturing superstars. And then just trying to fling something up. No. No. Come on, man. He’s going to go to the line. But here’s the wild part. As a lifelong NBA fan, nothing, and I mean nothing, comes close to what the Sacramento Kings have done. Not just in the last year, but the last 5, 10, even 20 years. Their track record is so horribly bad in every way that it makes every other scandal in the league look almost normal. Our city cannot keep doing this. Why are we resigned to the whims of a clueless idiot who seems desperate to stomp on his own dick at every turn? If you’re wondering how this is even all possible or what I’m talking about, then ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a deep dive into not just the worst NBA team of the past two decades, but a team so dysfunctional that there’s a real argument that they’re the worst franchise in all of North American sports. A few years ago, my Warriors had a legit rivalry brewing with the Sacramento Kings. That’s when my sports hatred for them started. There’s nothing personal against the players or the city, but as a Warriors fan, every Kings loss brought a smile to my face. I mean, they were trying to copy the Warriors blueprint and went as far as poaching one of the key members of Golden State’s championship staff. KC3 has learned that the Sacramento Kings have hired Golden State Warriors assistant coach, Mike Brown, as their new head coach. Lame, I thought. lame. I also thought the whole light the beam thing was kind of annoying and I’m pretty sure Steph felt the same way. But anyway, to be fair, it was an incredible battle. In 2023, it took one of the most inspirational speeches in NBA history, followed by the then greatest game seven performance ever for the Warriors to finally take them down. Hurry with Murray on him. three-pointer puts it in. Oh, Steph Curry from way downtown. At the time, I despised Sacramento with a passion, but at least I respected them. They just ended a 16-year playoff drought. They pushed the Warriors to seven games, and it genuinely looked like they were on the verge of something special. I mean, the following year in 2024, they knocked the Warriors out of the playin tournament. [ __ ] I thought, “Son of a b.” I hated them, but dang. Like I said, at least I respected them. Go ahead, light the beam. You’ve earned it was what I was saying to myself. But little did I know, they were about to spiral completely out of control. We need to talk about the Sacramento Kings because I’m going be honest with you, I don’t know what the hell they doing out in sack town. The very next season, they fired the head coach they stole from the Warriors. Then, not long after, they traded away the franchise centerpiece who dragged them out of the darkness. Holy smokes, I thought, “What the [ __ ] is going on?” And before I could even process that, they went out and acquired two players who had been dragging down Chicago for half a decade. Two players who clearly never worked well together. Then before you could blink, they added Russell Westbrook to the mix. As of today, after a brief rise that made them look like a real threat in the West, the Kings had managed to slide right back toward the bottom of the league. Ladies and gentlemen, I started digging into this organization, and I’m not even exaggerating when I say this is just the tip of the iceberg of how bad the Sacramento Kings are. I used to hate them. Now I just pity them. Oxy, it would be nice to have a conversation with a fellow NBA fan from another town without them just taking pity on us. When a good player runs into a great player, everyone says the same thing. There are levels to this, but the same thing applies to bad teams. All I got to say is that the Sacramento Kings suck. Uh, flatout embarrassing. Across nearly 80 years of NBA history, no franchise has lost more in a 20-year span than the Sacramento Kings. I mean, after 16 straight seasons without a playoff appearance, the longest drought the league has ever had. They finally get into the playoffs, get bounced in the first round, then followed that by missing the next two seasons, and now they look like they’re gearing up for yet another rebuild. But it gets worse because the truth is they don’t even know how to rebuild. For example, in the last 20 years, they’ve had 14 head coaches. 14. That’s almost a new coach every one and a half seasons, which makes building culture or identity impossible. Just for context, the longest tenure coach in the NBA right now is Eric Spolstra in Miami. He’s been running the Heat since 2008, which is about 18 seasons. We joke about the process Sixers taking on purpose. We clown the Bobcats for the worst regular season ever. We laugh at the post LeBron Cavaliers collapsing the moment he left. But no franchise, none has been worse than the Kings. Uh very frustrating as a fan, as a uh a Sacramento Kings content creator, it’s just I don’t know. I can’t wrap my head around this man. Just a few games ago, a fan finally snapped after watching his team lose and refused to play defense. The players that’s on the court need to play like the fans deserve. That’s it. He passionately told them to play harder. And guess what? The players told him to go home. Then the arena staff ejected him from the arena. You can’t make this up. Hollywood couldn’t write a script this chaotic. And somehow this is still just the appetizer. Because when it comes to building around stars, the Kings have shown time and time again that they simply do not know what they are doing. Isaiah Thomas was a bench guard in Sacramento. Then the moment he landed in Boston, he exploded into an MVP candidate. Tyresese Hallebertton was drafted by the Kings and just a few years later, he had the Pacers one win away from the NBA Finals. And their biggest star of the past two decades, Demarcus Cousins, who gave the Kings eight years of his prime. Do you want to know what he said? My biggest regret is, “Why didn’t I leave when I had the chance?” It got so ugly that agents and player reps openly warned their clients, “Avoid Sacramento. If you go there, you will not develop. Your career will stall.” One anonymous agent went even further. “If you want your client to fail, send him to Sacramento.” Most teams tank on purpose to chase a lottery pick. The Kings tank by accident. But if you think this is the only thing that makes the Kings a disaster, you are in for a shock. If you really want to understand how deep the dysfunction goes, all you have to do is look at their draft history. Because this is the one area where a franchise is supposed to change its destiny. But the Kings managed to fumble it over and over again and actually turned it into a lifestyle. For example, in 2012, the Kings used the number five pick on Thomas Robinson. He lasted half a season in Sacramento. The very next pick, Damen Lillard. And if you’re wondering what the Kings got back when they traded Robinson, it was these three players. And yes, not a single one of them lasted more than a year in Sacramento. Then in 2013, the Kings were sitting at number seven in the draft, and they picked Ben McLemore. A few picks later, however, was Giannis, a two-time MVP and the face of a championship team. As of today, Ben McLemore has been sentenced to eight years in prison. And of course, the one that defines everything, the 2018 pick. The Kings had the number two pick. And Luca Donuch, the most decorated European teenager ever, a Euro League MVP at 19, a generational talent, was sitting right there. But they chose Marvin Bagley. But the draft wasn’t the only place where the Kings sabotaged themselves. Because if you zoom out just a little bit, you’ll see that they butchered trades, too. In 2015, they traded away assets just to clear cap space and then didn’t even sign anyone. They literally paid the Sixers to take on contracts and watched Philly laugh in their face. In 2017, they gave away Demarcus Cousins for a package that, in hindsight, looks like a clearance rack of role players. Cousins was an allNNBA caliber star at the time and the Kings got back Buddy Heield, Langston Galloway, and a first round pick that turned into a player they didn’t even keep long term. It was a franchise star traded for pennies on the dollar. But here’s where I have to get real. You could say the draft is never perfect in hindsight. You can blame the players attitudes. You can argue the coaches just weren’t good enough. But at the same point, you have to step back and realize something. All of this came from the top because for the past two decades, the Kings haven’t just had bad luck. They’ve had chaotic ownership and front offices that were basically running experiments instead of a basketball team. When VC Ranad bought the team, he arrived with ideas that were, let’s just say, unique. This is the same owner who once suggested the Kings should play four-on- five defense so one player could cherrypick for layups. Under VC, the Kings became the league’s ultimate revolving door. Coaches, GMs, presidents, advisers, everyone took a turn. Nobody stayed long enough to build a culture, a philosophy, or even a plan. And the people who did get the power often had no idea how to use it. Vlatty Devok, a Kings legend, became the GM with almost no front office experience. He made emotional decisions, trusted his instincts over scouts, and ignored analytics. Multiple reports said he passed on Luca because of personal relationships because he knew Luca’s father and didn’t like him. Imagine passing on a generational superstar because you didn’t vibe with his dad. That’s the Kings in a nutshell. Inside the building, it was even worse. Executives were constantly fighting for control. People were undermining each other, leaking stories, pushing their own agendas. Every 12 to 18 months, the franchise changed direction. Rebuild. No, wait. Win now. No, wait. Tank. Without ever committing to anything. Other teams had a vision. The Warriors built around shooting and spacing. The Spurs built around development and culture. The Heat built around toughness and conditioning. The Kings, they built around confusion. And when your owner is meddling, your GM is inexperienced, your scouts are ignored, your coaches get fired every year, and your locker room has no stability, it doesn’t matter who you draft. It doesn’t matter who you trade for. It doesn’t matter who your star is. The organization is broken from the top down. At some point, you look at everything the Kings have done, and you realize something uncomfortable. This isn’t just a bad team. This is a franchise that actively damages the league. They’re the one franchise where hope goes to die, where stars go backwards, and where every promising rebuild turns into another tear down. And the truth is, the Kings have become a drag on the league’s competitive ecosystem. Small market teams like the Spurs, Thunder, Bucks, and Grizzlies have all proven you don’t need a big city to win. The Kings, meanwhile, have turned Sacramento into a basketball black hole. At what point do you stop blaming the players and coaches and start questioning the franchise ownership itself, which leads to a brutal but honest question the league eventually has to ask? If a franchise can’t stay competitive, can’t keep stability, can’t develop stars, and can’t follow a coherent plan for two straight decades, then what exactly are they bringing to the NBA?

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