When a franchise is consistently in the basement of the league due to their own bad decisions, it can be hard to talk about anything else. That's certainly true for the Sacramento Kings. The conversation about past mistakes won't stop until this organization changes the narrative through success.
Agreed
— Carmichael Dave (@CarmichaelDave) May 26, 2026
We have to get good https://t.co/zQUo0ZzW2o
This season was brutal on the Kings. Years of mismanagement and poor roster construction left them as one of the worst teams in the league. On top of that, the endless number of injuries made it impossible to find steady ground to build off of. There weren't a lot of positive talking points.
Postseason conversation has somewhat revolved around the draft, free agency, and bad contracts. During the playoffs in particular, the discussion has been about past mistakes and how they are benefiting current teams fighting their way to the NBA Finals. The Kings are all over it.
Cleveland, which is home to former Kings Keon Ellis and Dennis Schroder, was just eliminated by the Knicks, who are coached by Mike Brown and was fired by Sacramento. In the West, former Kings' point guard De'Aaron Fox is on the Spurs and battling the Thunder and the refs to make the Finals.
The conversation won't change until the Kings do
Yes, fans need to stop having pity parties when former Kings do well on other teams. That won't happen until Sacramento gives them something more positive to talk about on a consistent basis. That means big, long-lasting changes that turn this dog of a franchise into something great.
Great might be a stretch, or at least a long way off. Maybe the Kings should start with "not embarrassing" and go from there. For fans who just watched another sub-500 season go down, it's hard not to fixate on unforced errors that likely pushed the Kings a few steps back.
This is the team that used to have two great point guards in Fox and Tyrese Haliburton, fumbled them both, and is still trying to figure out how to fix the situation. It's not just that these mistakes were made, so much as it is the Kings are continuing to pay for them over and over.
For fans, having to watch their former head coach and former point guard succeed in the postseason is a bitter pill to swallow. Sacramento needs to change the conversation, and that can only be done by building a new legacy of smart decisions and success over one of continual errors and failure.
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