Yo! It's that time of year again.Why didn't i do this yesterday? It was my birthday, and people wanted to give me free beer. Simple enough. Anyway, new year, new building, new coach...new drama? Hopefully no drama. It'll be interesting to see how things shake out this season - national media seems pretty down on us, but that's the way I like it. On to the rankings!
NBA.com
#24
Six of the Kings' first eight games are on the road, three of them are the second night of a back-to-back, and all eight will be played without the suspended Darren Collison. That leaves Garrett Temple and Ty Lawson to run the point. Coach Dave Joerger's defense ranked 17th in the preseason, but was much better with rotation guys than with non-rotation guys on the floor. Maybe that streak of 10 straight seasons as a below-average defense (and a below-average offense) will come to an end this year.
ESPN.com
#25
Knowing that there's a vintage Tower Records sign hanging in the Kings' new Golden 1 Center is reason enough for the Committee to start plotting out its next trip to Sacramento. The basketball likewise promises to be more cohesive under Dave Joerger, who proved his resourcefulness last season with the Grizzlies. But this group has a lot of proving to do before we're ready to co-sign on the Kings' hopes of returning to 40-win territory for the first time in (gulp) 11 seasons.
Sports Illustrated
#26
The Kings proved this off-season that they are the best team in the NBA when it comes to being the Kings. Free Boogie.
NBC Sports
#23
With the Cubs back in the World Series, the Kings take over the dubious banner of “team who hasn’t been to its sport’s Finals for the longest time” in American major sports. The last time the Kings were in the Finals was 1951. Forget the Finals, the Kings just want to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade. Beautiful new building, but the Kings have no Darren Collison for the first eight games (suspension for a domestic violence plea bargain), and they face a tough road-heavy schedule without him to start the season.
CBS Sports
#27
I always have a bad feeling about the Kings because they're the Kings, but I have a really bad feeling this year. The roster is imbalanced, Cousins seems to be tiring of keeping up optimism and the Rudy Gay trade needs to be handled well. This could get bad.
Mean Ranking: 25
"All right people, we got 10 minutes 'till game time, let's all gather 'round. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I'm for wasting sportswriters' time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give 'em all a nice big crapburger to eat!"
NBA.com
#24
Six of the Kings' first eight games are on the road, three of them are the second night of a back-to-back, and all eight will be played without the suspended Darren Collison. That leaves Garrett Temple and Ty Lawson to run the point. Coach Dave Joerger's defense ranked 17th in the preseason, but was much better with rotation guys than with non-rotation guys on the floor. Maybe that streak of 10 straight seasons as a below-average defense (and a below-average offense) will come to an end this year.
ESPN.com
#25
Knowing that there's a vintage Tower Records sign hanging in the Kings' new Golden 1 Center is reason enough for the Committee to start plotting out its next trip to Sacramento. The basketball likewise promises to be more cohesive under Dave Joerger, who proved his resourcefulness last season with the Grizzlies. But this group has a lot of proving to do before we're ready to co-sign on the Kings' hopes of returning to 40-win territory for the first time in (gulp) 11 seasons.
Sports Illustrated
#26
The Kings proved this off-season that they are the best team in the NBA when it comes to being the Kings. Free Boogie.
NBC Sports
#23
With the Cubs back in the World Series, the Kings take over the dubious banner of “team who hasn’t been to its sport’s Finals for the longest time” in American major sports. The last time the Kings were in the Finals was 1951. Forget the Finals, the Kings just want to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade. Beautiful new building, but the Kings have no Darren Collison for the first eight games (suspension for a domestic violence plea bargain), and they face a tough road-heavy schedule without him to start the season.
CBS Sports
#27
I always have a bad feeling about the Kings because they're the Kings, but I have a really bad feeling this year. The roster is imbalanced, Cousins seems to be tiring of keeping up optimism and the Rudy Gay trade needs to be handled well. This could get bad.
Mean Ranking: 25
"All right people, we got 10 minutes 'till game time, let's all gather 'round. I'm not much for giving inspirational addresses, but I'd just like to point out that every newspaper in the country has picked us to finish last. The local press seems to think that we'd save everyone the time and trouble if we just went out and shot ourselves. Me, I'm for wasting sportswriters' time. So I figured we ought to hang around for a while and see if we can give 'em all a nice big crapburger to eat!"