Episode 276: Travel Down Kings Memory Lane

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode I compare this era of Kings basketball with what happened in the late 90's and the turn of the century. Last season very few people expected the Kings to be a playoff team and yet they finished 3rd in the West. In 1998-99 the Kings made the playoffs in an abbreviated 50 game season as a 7th seed. Not many thought the Kings would make the postseason that year, but it ended up being the start of a long run of success. I see many similarities between this Kings team and the ones from the "glory" years more than 20 seasons ago. The question is will this era of Kings basketball led by DeAaron Fox and Domantas Sabonis be able to go further than the teams with Bibby, Webber, Vlade, Peja and company? Only time will tell, but something special appears to be brewing in Sactown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	plumbing they've got a fix for you so the Sacramento Kings pre-season is in the rear
0:52.2	view mirror one up and four down, but I don't really care about the record.
0:56.0	I'll get in to this a little bit more, but I get to ask quite often about what this reminds me of and people always go,
1:04.6	Grant, does this remind you of what happened in the late 90s
1:08.4	and the early 2000s?
1:10.2	And I say, you know what, it really does.
1:13.0	If you look back to 9899, that was a 50-game season.
1:18.0	And what I remember the most about that is the Kings had gone from a season where they were coming off a
1:27.2	27 win season only 27 wins in 97 98 against 55 losses. They were terrible. Fans for the first
1:36.7	time had stopped going to Arco Arena to see the Kings play. This franchise was in a lot of trouble and then Jeff Petrie made a very bold move.
1:47.0	He traded the best player in Mitch Richmond and picked up from Washington, Chris Weber.
1:54.2	He also drafted Jason Williams out of Florida.
1:58.2	He signed Vlady Devots to a six-year deal.
2:02.6	And then all of a sudden, here comes John Berry
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