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2001/02: In what was widely considered the real NBA Finals the Kings and Lakers met in one of the best playoff series in NBA history. After splitting the first 2 games at ARCO Arena the Kings seized control of the series with a 103-90 win in Game 3. With a chance to go up 3 games to 1 the Kings led the Lakers by 2 points in thee final seconds of Game 4 as Kobe Bryant missed a shot with time winding down. However the rebound would bounce to Robert Horry who nailed a 3-point shot as the time expired to even the series at 2 for the Lakers. In Game 5 the Kings would give the Lakers a taste of their own medicine as Mike Bibby gave the Kings a 92-91 win with 8.2 seconds left. Looking to close out the Lakers in Game 6 the Kings would be pushed to a 7th game in controversial foul filled game in which the Lakers had 40 free throws, winning 106-102. In Game 7 back in Sacramento the game would go back and forth much like the series itself with 16 ties and 19 lead changes, going into overtime tied at 100. However the Kings would run out of gas in overtimes as the Lakers scored the final 9 points to pull out a 112-106 win.
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| Tue, December 2, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Sat, December 6, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Tue, December 9, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Fri, December 12, 2008, 7:30 pm | | |
| Sat, December 13, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Mon, December 15, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Tue, December 16, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Fri, December 19, 2008, 7:30 pm | | |
| Sat, December 20, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Mon, December 22, 2008, 7:30 pm | | |
| Fri, December 26, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Sun, December 28, 2008, 6:00 pm | | |
| Tue, December 30, 2008, 7:00 pm | | |
| Fri, January 2, 2009, 8:00 pm | | |
| Sat, January 3, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Mon, January 5, 2009, 7:30 pm | | |
| Tue, January 6, 2009, 7:30 pm | | |
| Fri, January 9, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Sun, January 11, 2009, 6:00 pm | | |
| Tue, January 13, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Wed, January 14, 2009, 7:30 pm | | |
| Fri, January 16, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Tue, January 20, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Wed, January 21, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Sat, January 24, 2009, 7:30 pm | | |
| Sun, January 25, 2009, 6:00 pm | | |
| Tue, January 27, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Wed, January 28, 2009, 7:30 pm | | |
| Fri, January 30, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
| Sun, February 1, 2009, 6:00 pm | | |
| Mon, February 2, 2009, 7:00 pm | | |
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Did You Know
The '''Sacramento Kings''' are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings are members of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Franchise history
Rochester
The franchise that would become the Sacramento Kings initially started in the city of Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League.
At the conclusion of World War II, the United States lacked a major professional basketball league. The National Basketball League decided to fill that void by stepping up from a regional semi-pro league into the nation's premier professional basketball loop. One of the top professional teams in the country was the Rochester Pros, an independent barnstorming team run by Lester Harrison. They were invited to join the NBL for the 1945-46 season. The team, which had long been known as the Seagrams before briefly adopting the nickname "Pros", held a name-the-team contest and selected the nickname "Royals".
Success for the Royals was almost immediate. Founded in 1945 by owner/coach/general manager Les Harrison (Hall of Famer) and his brother and co-owner/business manager Jack Harrison, the team won the NBL championship in 1945-46. The team was led by Bob Davies, Al Cervi, George Glamack, and Otto Graham, a future NFL Hall of Famer, who, in his only season in professional basketball, won a league championship before moving on to football and leading the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games, winning seven.
The following season, NBL Governors voted that the regular season "Pennant Winner" would be declared as the official NBL Champion, and the post-season would consist of a separate, non-championship tournament. The Royals finished 31-13 (.705), capturing their second NBL Championship in as many years, but lost in the post-season tournament finals to the Chicago American Gears.
The following season the NBL scrapped their one-year "pennant" experiment, and from that point forward the post-season playoffs would determine the NBL Champion. The Royals again finished with the league's best overall record at 44-16, but lost to George Mikan's Minneapolis Lakers 3 games to 1 in the NBL Finals.
In 1948, the Royals moved to the Basketball Association of America along with the Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers, and Indianapolis (Kautskys) Jets. A year later, the BAA merged with the NBL to become the National Basketball Association.
The Royals won the NBA title in 1951 by defeating the New York Knickerbockers 4 games to 3. It is the only NBA championship in the franchise's history to date.
The Royals' twelve-year stay in Rochester featured the services of nine future members of the Basketball Hall of Fame, one member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a Hollywood Walk of Famer: Al Cervi, Bob Davies, Alex Hannum, Les Harrison, Red Holzman, Arnie Risen, Maurice Stokes, Jack Twyman, Bobby Wanzer, Otto Graham, and Chuck Connors.
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