And now the low post podcast on a sunny Monday afternoon at Los Angeles, California.

And if we're in LA, we might as well start to suss out the Western Conference hierarchy.

The season is only about a month away.

And we're going to do that first with ESPN's Kevin Pelton by focusing on one team that

I haven't done a real in depth preview about a team that remade itself with a big controversial

out of nowhere trade at the deadline last year that drafted in the lottery yet again and

got a Somerliga MVP out of it.

And it's a big year for this franchise to be here.

There's even talk.

I don't want to get too excited.

I don't want to put the proverbial card before the horse.

There's even talk of 40 wins, almost 500 in Sacramento, California.

There's even talk of a play in birth.

Maybe we could sneak into the play.

And there's even talk of maybe we can end the longest playoff drought in the NBA, a

playoff drought that dates all the way to 2006 and Kevin Pelton.

If you and I were put in charge of a franchise for 15 years and we just made our draft selections

by throwing darts at a dart board of random names and our free agency selections by throwing

darts at a dart board of random free agents and random salary figures.

And we just combined all that into a team.

I bet we could make the playoffs once in 15 years.

Mr. Pelton, let's talk about the Sacramento Kings.

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