Sacramento Kings

The Kings and Offense-Only Playoff Teams

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As we approach the NBA playoff season, the Western Conference is rich with uncertainty.  I thought we could briefly focus on the particular case of the Sacramento Kings.  They are pretty locked into the three seed and have none of the historical baggage of many of the other teams in the conference.  Yet, there is an undercurrent that the Kings offense-only style is not a real threat.  Currently, the Kings are 47-31 (after a bad loss to the Spurs) but the team lacks … [Read more...] about The Kings and Offense-Only Playoff Teams

Playoff Droughts: A Review

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It’s odd to say in November but we are actually in the depths of the sorta off-season for the NBA.   In reviewing off-season priorities, I noticed that the Suns currently have a ten-year playoff drought.  That blew my mind because: (a) ten years is a long time for any team to miss the playoffs and (b) I can’t believe we are a decade removed from the Nash/Amare Suns.  In any event, this all got me wondering what each franchise’s worse playoff drought has been.  It seems that random chance would … [Read more...] about Playoff Droughts: A Review

The NBA Draft Lottery and Luck

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Like life itself the NBA Draft Lottery is random, painful and wonderful. It will remain as such unless they adopt that stupid wheel. This piece looks at what teams have been lucky and/or unlucky in the lottery during its 30 years of existence. What I’m looking at is which teams have had the ball bounce their way the most during the lottery era and which teams just can’t catch a break. What the list below shows is how much each team moved up or down in the draft order during the 30 years of … [Read more...] about The NBA Draft Lottery and Luck

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