As it is every year around this time and especially around this team, fans begin to assess their place in the NBA pecking order; just how far down the list do we have to go before we find the Sacramento Kings? We sift through a hundred different lists from a hundred different prognosticators with hot takes and cold hard “facts” about who’s headed to the playoffs, who sits in the lottery and who’s fans should start sacrificing their $10 LowBrau Bratwursts to the lottery gods, or the lopsided trade gods or the Texas-sized asteroid heading for the Pacific, and save for the brave few over the last decade, we’ve always seemed to find the Kings at the bottom of most predicted standings, at the top of most projected draft boards.
30Q: What If Vlade’s Right?
