Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings play in the Pacific Division of the NBA's Western Conference. In the history of the franchise, they have won three championships, two as members of the National Basketball League and the most recent, in 1951 with the NBA.

The franchise was originally founded in 1945, as the Rochester Royals, part of the National Basketball League (NBL). They played one season in the Basketball Association of America, before joining the NBA in 1949. They won their first and only NBA Championship in 1951, while still playing as the Rochester Royals. The team was then moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1957, where they remained for 15 years. They moved to Kansas City, in 1972, where they were renamed the Kansas City-Omaha Kings so as not to be confused with the Kansas City Royals MLB team. The team divided its games from 1972 until 1975 between the two cities. In 1975 the Kansas City-Omaha Kings became the Kansas City Kings. The franchise made their most recent move in 1985, settling in Sacramento, California.http://www.tickets-nba-basketball.com/kings/history.htm

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Tyreke 2009

In retrospect, based on the outcome of the 2009-2010 NBA season, the Sacramento Kings signing of Tyreke Evans was the Kings biggest story of 2009. Born September 19, 1989, in Chester,Pennsylvania, 6'6" University of Memphis point guard Tyreke Evans was Sacramento’s first round pick in the 2009 draft and he was the fourth pick overall in the draft.http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=3983 Evans was nicknamed "Hugo" having been born in 1989 during Hurricane Hugo. Despite an early injury Evans had a great first year in the NBA. Based on Evans stats and records in his last 7 games played through November 25, 2009, he scored 20 points or more, as well as acquiring 4.6 rebounds and 4.8 assists in each of those games. Evans was able to get more time early in the season due in part to the injury of Kevin Martin.http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/arash_markazi/11/25/rookie.rankings/index.html

Sacramento Kings Jersey Numbers Retired

Nate Archibald # 1
Mitch Richmond # 2
Chris Webber # 4
Sixth Man (Sacramento Fans) # 6
Bob Davies # 11
Maurice Stokes # 12
Oscar Robertson # 14
Vlade Divac # 21
Jack Twyman # 27
Sam Lacey # 44

Sacramento Kings 2002 WCF Controversy

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Tim Donaghy was a NBA ref for 13 seasons between 1994 and 2007 before an investigation by the FBI that involved Donaghy placing bets on NBA games. After the FBI investigation Donaghy agreed to cooperate with the FBI giving them more information about game fixing and personal bias’ that certain refs had against certain team and particular players. Donaghy contended that some of these bias’ were so strong and so blatant that based on who was the ref he was able to determine the outcome of the game with 70% accuracy. Donaghy alleged that beyond these regular season intentional bad calls that the 2002 WCF game 6 had literally been fixed to insure a game 7. He also contended that there was similar activity in the 2005 post season series.http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3436401

The FBI after their investigation of Donaghy’s allegation has written what is referred to as a 5(K) letter…which means that based on their investigation that Donaghy was being truthful about the allegations he had made about game fixing in the NBA. The letter did not directly apply to the controversial 2002 WCF game 6 between the Kings and the Lakers but only because the statute of limitations had run out ...