So at the start of the NBA season, I defended my hometown team, the Sacramento Kings, saying they were being unfairly pegged to flounder (ESPN.com predicted a 23-59 record, for one.) I wrote that the Kings had some talent and weren't too far off on being a playoff team once more.
Looks like I missed on this one.
Sacramento is 15-55, has the worst record in the NBA and I'm starting to wonder if sports is really my thing any more. I stand by my assertion that the Kings have a lot of good young talent, between Kevin Martin, Spencer Hawes, Jason Thompson, Donte Greene, Andres Nocioni and Francisco Garcia. Still, I must admit the prototypical veteran core needed for success simply isn't there. I remember thinking Sacramento could easily withstand letting go of Mike Bibby, Ron Artest, Brad Miller, and John Salmons, but the team is starting to look like a stripped down Cadillac on cinder blocks in the middle of the ghetto. It ain't pretty to watch this team even from afar.
Thankfully, the season is drawing to a merciful close, the Kings have multiple picks in the first round of the June draft and they may well have the best chance of any lottery team to score the top pick. Plug a power forward and a decent point guard into this roster along with a veteran or two for the bench and a solid coach (Flip Saunders, perhaps?) and I don't think Sacramento is all that bad.
Then again, maybe I shouldn't make predictions for awhile.
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