There was a time in Sacramento when Kings were kings and a bunch of backups were loved and celebrated in ways that lionized bench players such as Jon Barry, Bobby Jackson, Hedo Turkoglu and Scot Pollard.
They called them the Bench Mob and they were an integral part of Kings teams that challenged for Western Conference supremacy under former coach Rick Adelman around the turn of the century. Now, there’s a new crew in Sacramento — affectionately known as Yogi, Bogi, JJ, Bagley and Giles — a new-age band of brothers who bring character, charisma and life to Golden 1 Center the way the Bench Mob electrified Arco Arena a generation ago.