Episode 243: Kings Post Season Memories

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Sacramento Kings are on their way to the NBA Playoffs for the first time since 2006. On today's episode I reflect back to 1996, the first ever game playoff game at Arco Arena. I share stories from that era and talk about how much easier life was without social media. I also reflect back on game 3 vs the Sonics in '96 and forecast what it will be like when the Kings play the first ever playoff game at Golden One Center. Here's what I do know, in '96 nobody had cell phones in their hands. In two weeks 18,000 people will have their cell phones out instead of clapping. I don't know about you, but I miss how much easier life was back in 1996. Bottom line, 2023 is a great one for Kings fans and no fan base in America deserves this more than Kings fans! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And now Grand Nation. And hi good everybody,
0:15.0	everybody, the Sacramento Kings are on the way to the playoffs.
0:21.0	I'm going to talk about yes to year on today's show but first I want to let you know
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0:59.0	So the Kings are going to the post-season for the first time since 2006 but it made me think of the first
1:06.6	playoff series in Sacramento in 1996 when the Kings played the Seattle
1:12.4	Supersonics.
1:13.0	I moved to Sacramento in July of 87.
1:16.0	I had never seen an NBA playoff game
1:20.0	and the first NBA playoff game that I ever attended I announced
1:24.8	game one up in Seattle's key arena with the Kings and the Sonics. You know a lot of
1:28.8	fans forget when the Kings moved to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985,
1:35.0	they made the playoffs that year, got swept by the Houston Rockets,
1:38.8	and then it would be a 10-year drought.
1:40.9	Again, from 1986 to 1996 and I was thinking about that series against
1:48.4	Seattle where the top seed Seattle Sonics won the series three games to one the Kings lost game one up in
1:56.9	Seattle the final score was 97 to 85 the score really did not indicate how much the Sonics dominated game
2:05.3	too though Mitch Richmond and the Kings 190 to 81 setting up the first ever
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