Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California.
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38 Facts About Kansas City Kings
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The Kansas City Kings compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Western Conference Pacific Division.
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The Kansas City Kings are the oldest team in the NBA, and the first and only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento.
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Since 2006, the Kansas City Kings have had sixteen consecutive losing seasons, the most in NBA history.
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Kansas City Kings shook off the effects of the fall, even as he had briefly been unconscious.
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Kansas City Kings suffered a seizure and was permanently hospitalized, a tragedy that greatly shook the team.
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Kansas City Kings finally achieved some success in their new home when they hired Cotton Fitzsimmons as coach.
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The Kansas City Kings later played several home games in St Louis during the early 1980s to large crowds.
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Kansas City Kings was not fired for good until he rehired coach Phil Johnson, whom he had fired in mid-season in Kansas City ten years before.
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Also, Kansas City had a much stronger following for the Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers college basketball teams than they did the NBA's Kings.
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The Kansas City Kings drafted Vinny Del Negro and acquired Rodney McCray from the Houston Rockets.
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Kansas City Kings would go on to play his entire career with the Kings and had 5,833 career points.
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Kansas City Kings was traded along with Otis Thorpe to the Washington Wizards for Chris Webber in May 1998.
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Stojakovic moved into the starting small forward role, where he and Webber proved to complement each other extremely well, and as the Kansas City Kings continued to improve, their popularity steadily rose, culminating in a February 2001 Sports Illustrated cover story entitled "The Greatest Show on Court" with Williams, Christie, Stojakovic, Webber, and Divac gracing the cover.
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The Kansas City Kings lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Seattle SuperSonics.
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The Kansas City Kings were seeded 8th in the Western Conference playoffs and were matched up in the first round against the San Antonio Spurs.
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The Kansas City Kings relieved Artest of basketball duties, pending investigation, then later reinstated him.
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The Kansas City Kings missed the 2007 NBA playoffs, the first time in eight seasons.
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The Kansas City Kings' future appeared to rest on the shoulders of Kevin Martin, who was a lead candidate for 2007 NBA Most-Improved Player of the Year.
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The Kansas City Kings selected Spencer Hawes with the 10th overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft.
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The Kansas City Kings lost key players over the off-season, with backup Ronnie Price leaving for the Utah Jazz, and Corliss Williamson retiring.
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On June 24,2010, the Kansas City Kings selected DeMarcus Cousins with the 5th pick of the 2010 NBA draft.
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On May 31,2013, the Kansas City Kings closed escrow, finalizing the sale to the Ranadive group at a record valuation of $534 million, beginning a new era for the franchise.
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Cousins' selection marked the first time a Kansas City Kings player earned All-Star honors since Brad Miller and Peja Stojakovic represented Sacramento in 2004.
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On March 3,2015, the Kansas City Kings announced former Sacramento center Vlade Divac as the new vice president of basketball operations.
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On May 9,2016, the Kansas City Kings hired former Memphis Grizzlies coach Dave Joerger as head coach.
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Later in the evening, the Kansas City Kings traded Marco Belinelli to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for the 22nd pick in the draft.
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The Kansas City Kings selected four players in the 2016 NBA draft – Greek center Georgios Papagiannis with the 13th pick, Syracuse shooting guard Malachi Richardson with the 22nd pick, Kentucky forward Skal Labissiere with the 28th pick, and Oklahoma guard Isaiah Cousins with the 59th pick.
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In free agency, the Kansas City Kings signed Anthony Tolliver, Garrett Temple, Arron Afflalo, Matt Barnes, and Ty Lawson.
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On February 20,2017, the Kansas City Kings traded DeMarcus Cousins, alongside Omri Casspi to the New Orleans Pelicans for Tyreke Evans, Buddy Hield, Langston Galloway and two future draft picks.
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In 1994, the Kansas City Kings radically changed their look, adopting a new color scheme of purple, silver, black and white.
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In doing this, the Kings became unique; most professional franchises place the team nickname on the home jerseys and the city name on the road jerseys.
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The Kansas City Kings unveiled their new uniforms on June 15,2016, featuring four designs.
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The so-called 'Kansas City Kings' uniforms are similar to the away uniforms, except that the abbreviation "SAC" in gray appears in front.
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The Kings kept their uniforms mostly intact, but the erstwhile primary purple uniforms were retired in favor of the 'City' alternate purple uniforms.
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Kansas City Kings hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.
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All of the Kansas City Kings retired numbers are hanging in the rafters of the Golden 1 Center.
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