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Sacramento Kings

Sacramento Kings, founded and joined the NBA in 1948, is a professional basketball team belonging to Sacramento, California. It is a team in the Pacific Division of NBA Western League.

In the 1950-1951 season, he won the NBA championship as Rochester Royal team, and then the team failed to make any breakthrough. Until the 21st century, the kings, under the Princeton tactical system of coach Rick Adelman, with Chris Webber, Peja Stojakovic, Mike Bibby, Vlad Divac and other players as the core, combined with "bench gangsters" dominated by Bobbie Jackson and hido Turkoglu, have become the most ornamental strong team in NBA games.

But in 2008, with the transfer of Mike Bibby to the eagles, it marked the end of the golden age of the kings. In 2009, we began to rebuild the team with teric Evans as the core. In January 2013, the Seattle consortium announced a temporary agreement to acquire the kings, but the kings were eventually acquired by the sacheng consortium led by vivik ranatif.

On July 11, 2017, the king officially announced the signing of the following three veteran Generals: Carlos Carter, George Hill and Zach Randolph.

Team history

Team evolution

The kings changed their names the most in NBA. When they were founded, they were called "Rochester Royal team". In 1957, they were renamed "Cincinnati Royal team". In 1972, they were renamed "Kansas City - Ohama kings". It was not until 1985 that the team settled in Sacramento that they were renamed "Sacramento Kings".

Historical evolution

1948-50

Before the start of the 1948-1949 season, NBL's Rochester royals, Minneapolis Lakers, Fort Wayne pistons and Indiana jets merged into the American Basketball Association (BAA). After that, the American Basketball Association (BAA) changed its name to NBA, and the Royal team was divided into four teams in the Central District, including Minneapolis, Fort Wayne pistons, Chicago stags and St. Louis bombers. In the 1948-1949 season, the Royal team won 75% of the Games (45-15), 15 games in a row and 23 games at home. This year, the Royal team also played an amazing home win rate of 971% (33-1), which is the second highest home win rate in NBA history (the highest win rate was set by Celtic in 1985-1986 season, with a record of 40-1). In the 1949-1950 season, no player of the Royal team entered the top ten in the League scoring list, and Bob Davis, the team's scoring champion, averaged only 14.0 points per game. The Royal team won many games with strong defense, limiting their opponents' average score to 74.6 points per game. At the end of the season, the Royal team played a wave of 15 wins in a row, and finally tied the Lakers' 51-17 record. But in the division decided to win the playoffs in the playoffs, was swept out by the Fort Wayne pistons.

1950-1954

In the 1950-1951 season, the Royal team won the best result in history. Under the planning of boss, general manager and head coach Les Harrison, the Royal team has become a strong team with many veteran players. The lineup includes Bob Davis, Bob Wenzel, and Arnie reisson, who scored 16.3 points and 12 rebounds this season. The Royal team ended the 1950-1951 regular season 41-27, only three games less than the division champion Lakers. He swept the pistons easily in the first round of the playoffs, then sent the Minneapolis back to their hometown in four games to make it to the historic finals. With a total score of 4-3, he won the first and only NBA championship in the history of the team. In the 1951-1952 season, the Royal team, as the defending champion of NBA, ranked first in the league with a 41-25 regular season record. On February 24, 1952, the Royal team set a single game scoring record (124 points) against the Baltimore bullets. The season's playoffs, the Royal team easily beat the pistons in the first round, but then lost to the Lakers 1-3, stopped defending the pace. In the two seasons of 1952-1953 and 1953-1954, the Royal team played with almost the same lineup and entered the playoffs. However, in 1953, the Royal team lost to the pistons in the first round, while in 1954, the Royal team was lucky to reach the division finals and lose to the Lakers because of the change of the first round system of the playoffs.

1954-1957

with the establishment of the 24 second attack time system in 1954-55 season, the slow-paced Royal team was squeezed out of the competition in the West. Although the home court moved to a new stadium with 10000 seats, the Royal team was 29-43, the worst in history. The Royal team, which barely entered the playoffs, was eliminated by the Minneapolis Lakers in the first round. At the end of the season, boss Les Harrison gave up his job as head coach and gave it to player Bob Wenzel. The team's Arnie Leeson was sent to Boston Celtics, Bob Davis chose to retire. In the 1955-1956 season, the Royal team recruited seven rookies and put three into the starting line-up - forward Maurice Stokes, Jack tweeman and guard ed Fleming. Stokes, who averaged 16.8 points, 16.3 rebounds (ranked first in the League) and 4.9 assists, won the rookie of the year trophy and became a member of the All-Star team of the year. On January 14, 1956, Stokes set a team record of 38 rebounds in a single game. Although in 1955-56 season, the Royal team's record was two games higher than that in 1954-1955 season, it stopped in the regular season and missed the playoffs for the first time. In the 1956-1957 season, Stokes dominated the NBA with 1256 rebounds, averaging 4.6 assists per game, ranking third in the NBA and 13th in the scoring table (15.6 points per game). Stokes broke the NBA record with 1256 rebounds in a single season. However, the St. Louis bombers, the Minneapolis Lakers and the Fort Wayne pistons tied for the top of the Western Conference with a 34-38 record at the same time, and the Royal team with a 31-41 record withdrew from the playoffs again.

1957-1959

at the beginning of the 1957-1958 season, the Royal team moved to Cincinnati and moved their home stadium to the Cincinnati garden stadium, which can accommodate 14000 people. The Royal team has been strong this season. Aston averaged 18.1 rebounds from Minneapolis at the end of the season. The Royal team, 33-39 this season, was finally able to enter the two-year-old playoffs. But was swept out of the playoffs by the Detroit Pistons. Coach Bob Wenzel was replaced by Tom Marshall at the beginning of the 1958-1959 season after the Royal team delivered a 3-15 result due to the injury of Maurice Stokes. But the team ended the season with the worst 19-53 in the league. Then the 1959-1960 season. The Royal team won only 19 more games, including a wave of 14 in a row. But Jack teveman scored a career high 59 points in the 122-118 win over the Lakers on June 15, 1960.

1959-1963

Prior to the start of the 1959-1960 season, team coach Marshall was fired, and then Charles Woolf took over. At the 1960 NBA draft, the Royal team selected the star guard of the University of Cincinnati: Oscar Robertson. At the beginning of the season, the Royal team started the 1960-1961 season with a 140-123 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, and finally ended the regular season with a mediocre record of 33-46. Although 14 games ahead of the 1959-1960 season, he still failed to get a playoff ticket by one game. Oscar Robertson became the rookie of the year, scoring 30.5 points per game, ranking third in the league, rebounding as high as 10.1. At the same time, he also led the league with 9.7 assists per game, and set a new league record with 690 assists. 1961-1962 is the most successful season since 1953-54. The Royal team only scored less than 100 points in two games in the current season, with an average of 123.1 points in a single season and 70.8 rebounds per game. Each starter has double-digit scoring performance, scoring King Robertson averaged 30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists. Before the 1962-1963 season, the NBA re divided the division, and the Royal team was assigned to the east side, which included Boston Celtic, Syracuse national team, New York Knicks and other strong teams. The Royal team retained the start of the 1961-1962 season this season and achieved a similar record in the regular season, with all the starts averaging more than 10 points per game

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