The Sacramento Kings will enter the 2025-26 season looking to snap their playoff drought as they have missed the postseason in each of the last two seasons and they have made the playoffs just once since the start of the 2006-07 season.
Training Camp is underway for the Sacramento Kings, and the excitement around the team is palpable. After a disastrous 2024-25 season, the players seem ready to prove everyone wrong, as they've already been written off by many in the tough Western Conference.
The Sacramento Kings are entering their first training camp and preseason with Doug Christie as the head coach. Christie had his interim tag removed at the end of the 2024-25 season, following his takeover after the Kings fired Mike Brown in late December.
As the Sacramento Kings get underway with training camp, all attention has been on their plan to run and use defense to get out in transition. Doug Christie has a clear vision for this team to be pesky and wreak havoc on the defensive end, and use that to get easy buckets on offense.
The Sacramento Kings had a disastrous season in 2024-25 which saw them go through a lot of changes. The Sacramento Kings fired their head coach Mike Brown and brought in Doug Christie to replace him.
Basketball originated as a distinctly American game. It had international roots, though, as the game's inventor, James Naismith, was Canadian. In the years since, the NBA has been flooded with league-defining international talent.
Now that Jonathan Kuminga has officially re-signed for the Golden State Warriors, the Sacramento Kings can start focusing on the players actually on their roster (right?).
SACRAMENTO — The Kings find themselves in a precarious place. Once riding high on the “light the beam” wave, they have slipped back into mediocrity. In 2022-23, they surged to the third seed in the Western Conference with a 48-34 record.
The Sacramento Kings went into the 2025 offseason with hefty expectations to make changes, and one of the names that consistently got brought up was Jonathan Kuminga.
One thing was clear on the first day of Sacramento Kings training camp: this team is going to run. We've heard this before in Sacramento, most notably in De'Aaron Fox's second season in 2018-19 when Dave Joerger led an upstart Kings team to 39-43.
One of the biggest talking points for the Sacramento Kings this offseason has been around their glut of guards. Between newly signed Dennis Schröder, Zach LaVine, Keon Ellis, and Malik Monk, the Kings have four players who could start for teams around the league.
Sacramento Kings guard Zach LaVine is entering his 12th NBA season , and his first full season with the Kings after arriving in February as part of the three-team trade that sent De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs.
The Sacramento Kings wrapped up their media day yesterday, with quotes coming out from everyone around the team. Doug Christie talked about his approach heading into the year, DeMar DeRozan discussed the chaos that was the 2024-25 season, and Malik Monk looked happy as ever, even with his name being included in trade rumors all offseason.
DeMar DeRozan did not mince words when he looked back on his first year with the Sacramento Kings. The veteran star admitted the Kings’ season was filled with turmoil from start to finish.
The Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors have held discussions surrounding a potential sign-and-trade involving Jonathan Kuminga. It’s clear that the former team is very much interested in Golden State’s former lottery selection.
The Golden State Warriors became a modern dynasty 10 years ago. However, former Sacramento Kings Guard Rashad McCants thinks a shift is coming in the Northern California basketball scene — and that Warriors Power Forward Jonathan Kuminga, who’s currently a restricted free agent, can help tilt the scales by landing with the Kings.
The Sacramento Kings are one of those teams that’s seemingly stuck in ‘no-man’s land.’ That is, a team that is not bad enough to get a high draft pick and accelerate a rebuild, but not good enough to be a threat in the playoffs.
The start of the 2025-26 NBA season is less than a month away and teams are trying to finalize deals ahead of the start of the preseason. One of these team is the Sacramento Kings who have had a busy offseason as they have made multiple moves to bolster their roster to chase a playoff spot in the Western Conference this season.
Look, we’ve all seen dysfunctional NBA franchises before. Hell, we’ve covered plenty of them. But what’s unfolding in Sacramento right now? This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill organizational chaos – this is a master class in how not to run a professional sports team, courtesy of Vivek Ranadivé and his daughter Anjali.
The Sacramento Kings have rarely been a premium destination for NBA players. Now, it seems like playing for the Kings is driving players out of the country.