If there are still any Sacramento Kings' fans hoping for a playoff run this season, your blind, unwavering support should be saluted. Given how 2025-2026 is going so far, the Kings need a more sensible goal, like reaching .500, which might even be laughably unattainable at this point.
The problems holding the Kings back this season have been around for years and have been thoroughly documented. For a brief moment during the Beam Team season, it seemed like a turnaround was possible. In reality, that season was the exception, not the rule.
All of the issues that need to be corrected run through pretty much every aspect of the franchise, starting at the top. Co-owner Vivek Ranadive is well-known after the last few years for being deeply involved in every part of the operation, unfortunately to the detriment of the team on the court.
The Kings get by on the love and passion of the Sacramento fan base, who seem willing to forgive basically any transgression the front office commits. If their fans weren't so loyal and didn't keep showing up to support the team no matter how bad they are, the Kings would have moved years ago.
The Kings breaking even would be a miracle
Any sort of post-season run seems like a fever induced hallucination considering how the regular season has started. The Kings are three and 11, and are on the verge of being dead last in the Western Conference. If it wasn't for the even worse New Orleans Pelicans, they would be.
The only remotely achievable goal for the Kings is trying to finish the season at .500. Even that would take some sort of miracle, like the top three teams in the conference all tripping and flying into the Sun at the same time. That still seems more likely than the Kings making the playoffs.
It's always worth noting that the Kings are in a stacked conference with a brutal schedule through the first two months of the season. That doesn't excuse the fact that the Kings' front office has put together a roster that is almost inconceivably imbalanced.
Even getting to .500 seems monumental at this point, in part because that might actually get the Kings into the Play-In Tournament. And that doesn't seem probable. Hopefully, the front office takes the rebuild seriously because even Sacramento fans will stay patient for only so long.