Sacramento Kings: The Team – synonymous with lost seasons

For several years, the Sacramento Kings have been in a state of mediocrity that they can’t get out of. Both due to the errors of the Front Office (culminating in the favoring of Marvin Bagley III over Luka Doncic in the 2018 NBA Draft) as well as because some key players in programming didn’t turn out the way everyone expected.

The exchange that sent Domandas Samponis to the Golden 1 Center (Tyres Halliburton and Buddy Hild took the opposite route to Indiana) was a move that showed the body wanted to shuffle the deck to create something special. With background of course next season since (and) this year seems to be lost.

4.5 wins separates the “Kings” from 10th place in the West and the play-in tournament, but most of the time they can’t seem to cope with the counterattack that puts them over the San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers and New Orleans Pelicans will.

But beyond that, the loss to the Dallas Mavericks in the early hours of Sunday, March 6, marked something even more important for the Sacramento Kings. The reason why the organization ends the regular season of the NBA with a negative sign for the 16th time in a row (!). As of 2005–06, Sacramento is exclusively…minus in terms of win/loss sign, making it the team with the longest streak in the NBA.

Analytically the wins/losses in the last sixteen seasons (in brackets the success rate)

1. 2021/22: 24-42 (36.4%)
2. 2020/21: 31-41 (43.1%)
3. 2019/20: 31-41 (43.1%)
4. 2018/19: 39-43 (47.6%)
5. 2017/18: 27-55 (32.9%)
6. 2016/17: 32-50 (39%)
7. 2015/16: 33-49 (40.2%)
8. 2014/15: 29-53 (35.4%)
9. 2013/14: 28-54 (34.1%)
10. 2012/13: 28-54 (34.1%)
11. 2011/12: 22-44 (33.3%)
12. 2010/11: 24-58 (29.3%)
13. 2009/10: 25-57 (30.5%)
14. 2008/09: 17-65 (20.7%)
15. 2007/08: 38-44 (46.3%)
16. 2006/07: 33-49 (40.2%)

Incidentally, at the age of 37, the franchise switched from Kansas City to Sacramento, in just eight cases there was a positive sign in the regular season finale. All with Rick Edelman on the bench.

As a reminder, in 2005-06 (last season with a positive sign, 44-38), the Sacramento Kings roster consisted of:

• meta world peace
• Mike Bibi
• Brad Miller
• Petza Stojakovic
• Bonzi Wells
• Kenny Thomas
• Sharif Abdur Rahim
• Kevin Martin
• Francisco Garcia
• Jason Hart
• Brian Skinner
• Corlis Williamson
• Ronnie price
• Vitaly Potapenko
• Jamal Samson
• Sergei Moni