History of the Kings

The Sacramento Kings is a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The franchise began as the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League (NBL) before joining the NBA in 1948. Since then, they have won two conference titles and one division title while making 21 playoff appearances over their history. They have also had some of the most iconic players to ever play for them such as Oscar Robertson, Chris Webber, and Vlade Divac.

The team has been through many changes since its inception including moving from Rochester to Cincinnati in 1957 where it was known as the Cincinnati Royals until 1972 when it moved again this time to Kansas City-Omaha where it became known simply as The Kings after being unable to acquire an arena lease agreement with either city individually. In 1985 they finally made their way back west and settled into Arco Arena (now Golden 1 Center) which would be home for 30 years until 2016 when they moved downtown into what is now called Golden 1 Center becoming only one of three teams at that time who shared ownership between a municipality or state government entity along with Staples Center housing both Lakers & Clippers plus Barclays center hosting both Nets & Knicks.

During this period there were several highs but mostly lows including never having more than 50 wins during any season except once under Rick Adelman’s tenure when his squad went 55-27 good enough for a first-place finish out West but ultimately lost 4–2 against eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers on Western Conference Finals 2002/03 season. It wasn't until 2013 that things started turning around under a new ownership group led by Vivek Ranadive hiring Mike Malone who led them all way up till playoffs 2015/16 season before he was fired midseason due to lackluster performance despite having solid roster pieces like Cousins, and Gay, Collison, etc..and replaced by George Karl whose stint lasted less than year leading us current era Dave Joerger's reign who managed to take young core featuring guys like Cauley Stein, Buddy Hield, etc. up few notches higher winning 39 games last year followed closely 38 victories so far during 2018/2019 campaign missing out post-season yet again due tough competition within Pacific Division standings.

Overall, although not always successful on the court throughout its long history dating back 70+ years ago; the kings still remain an important part NBA landscape providing entertainment to fans across the world whilst giving platforms for many great players to showcase talents and helping shape the game we know today!