Tag: Kings

CoolDMZ vs. the Laker Nation

My dad treated me to a viewing of Tuesday night’s Sacramento NBA Kings contest versus another basketball team from Los Angeles. In case you missed my Twitter tweets from the Arco stands, the most notable topic was the fact that the Laker Nation was out in force. I suppose this should not be surprising, but that didn’t stop it from being strange and demoralizing. If anything it made for a schizophenic crowd: loud boos for Kobe when he lines up for a free throw, then equally loud cheers when he sinks it (on those rare occasions when he was able to make one). The Kings played great for most of the game, they were in it until the end. Rare defensive lapses–though the Lakers create serious matchup problems for almost everybody–but also some amazing D from the Kings.

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Reactions to the Kevin Martin trade

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“Kevin Martin, Sacramento Kings, Michael Jordan, Jordan Brand” by ballerblogger

It looks like Kevin Martin will be traded to Houston today for two Rockets: Carl Landry and Joey Dorsey. Both are 6-8 “power forwards” and the Kings will also be giving up 3 other players. It seems like Tracy McGrady will probably end up with the Knicks, although there is an outside chance he’ll be coming here. I suppose if T-Mac ends up here it might be with another player from New York, but even Knicks fans don’t want Knicks on their team.

At some point this morning I am hoping I’ll wake up and this will all have been a terrible, terrible dream. As usual I have no idea what I’m talking about, and this Carl Landry fellow seems like he could end up being a great player, although he is the same age as Martin and Martin is already a star. But things must be pretty bad that the Kings couldn’t give K-Mart/#RekeROY even 30 games together. What do you all think (besides you, TS)?

UPDATE: McGrady is definitely heading to New York, Kenny Thomas is staying put, and we get Larry Hughes. Over at Fanhouse, ex-Ragger Tom Ziller analyzes the deal. I am trying to see the silver lining here and I guess Landry and some expiring contracts are that silver lining.

Free Kings Tickets for Your Birthday!

Happy birthday, Aquarians! The Sacramento Kings want to help you celebrate with FREE tickets. According to their website, anyone with a January birthday “can select an upper bowl seat ($25.50 value) or a lower bowl seat ($79.50 value), your choice.”

Being the water girl that I am, I attempted to obtain my free ticket online. One for me, plus one for my January birthday pal. In fact, I probably have a dozen friends with January birthdays. Sadly, the online system won’t allow you to select more than one free ticket at a time. So, you’ll have to link up via cell to ensure you’re all booking seats in the same row. An added burden, but hey, they’re FREE.

Hurry! Tickets are only available for two more games: January 26 against the Warriors and January 30 against the Bobcats.

Kings game to be nationally televised

A Kings-sized mixed message
A Kings-sized mixed message

Tonight’s Kings game versus the Washington Wizards will be nationally televised on ESPN starting at 7:30 p.m.

Much has been made about the dollar beer promotion, but times are tough and folks gotta do what folks gotta do, right?

“Our fans’ response to our dollar beverage promotion including beer, water and soda has been phenomenal,” said Kings co-owner Gavin Maloof. “Sacramento and ARCO Arena will look awesome on national TV tomorrow night.”

Hmm, dollar beer night or dollar beverage night? Come on, guys, own it.

NOTE: Fans will be able to purchase 12-ounce domestic draft brews for $1 through halftime and can purchase two at a time. No word on whether this applies to water and soda, too.

The Monarchs are dead, long live the Monarchs

Sad news for women’s pro sports today as Maloof Sports & Entertainment folds the Sacramento Monarchs:

“Our focus is to turn the Kings around, and to do that, we have to put all our efforts and good salespeople on the Kings.”

The recently-turned-around, .500-for-the-first-time-since-forever Kings could not be reached for comment.

Maybe the Monarchs will end up in S.F.?

Kings game to promote Glee

Whether you enjoy the popular Fox show “Glee” or not, this special package for November 17th’s game against the Bulls is hard to beat.

The “Glee” ticket package includes:
1) A ticket to the Kings vs. Bulls game
2) Entry to the exclusive pregame Q&A session with Morrison
3) A Glee Locker Mirror
4) A Kings Value Meal (arena dog, regular soda and regular popcorn)

The value meal alone has to be pushing $15 these days, right?

As part of the Kings tribute to “Glee,” fans will be treated to live musical acts and “Glee” video segments throughout the game, along with a special live Kings halftime musical in the spirit of the show.

This has awkward mashup written all over it.

(via @sacramentokings)

Around the Web today

Our old pal Tom Ziller has his official Kings 2009-2010 preview up at Sactown Royalty. Though since we’ve already played a game I guess that makes it just his view now. “Last Year’s Record: No Comment.” Heh.

And a little blog called the New York Times has “36 Hours in Sacramento.” The discuss Ella, Tower Cafe, Old Sac, the CA budget crisis, and Faces. They also slyly call our “more trees per capita” status into question. It’s not like we say “prettiest trees in the world,” right? It’s a statistical fact that should be easy to confirm. Big city jerks.

Bold new arena finance plan: Charge people for seats

Arco Arena
Creative Commons License photo credit: Bo Knows California

The city’s groundbreaking new idea for financing a replacement for Arco Arena is to charge fans for their attendance, as this Sac Bee article explains. I’m kidding, though I’m not quite sure how $40,000 over 40 years, paid as $1000 per year ($24 per game) is different than a $24 season ticket (and $24 at the current Arco location basically gets you a parking space). If it had to be paid upfront I could understand.

Also, I’m not sure why anybody would pay for a seat at an arena over 40 or 50 years; after all, Arco has been marked for replacement for almost a decade. There must be something to this seat mortgage idea that I just don’t understand. It would be the first time I have ever, ever blogged about something without complete understanding of the issue, so you know I’m being truthful. 🙂

Kings on Twitter

Via twitter-athletes.com, here is a listing of Sacramento Kings on Twitter.

It looks like Jon Brockman leads the way with over 30,000 followers (blog about that, JT!).

Former River Cat, Nick Swisher, cracks the overall top 10 list with 936,016 followers.

What does this all mean? I have no idea. Twitter is still lost on me, but apparently the kids love it so who am I to judge?

Newest member of Sactosphere: Jason Thompson

jason-thompsonThe Sacramento Press puts out approximately 18 kazillion articles in a day, so one or five or 10 are going to slip past unnoticed. So in case you missed it: “What’s up Kings fans?” by the Sac Press’s latest blogger, Kings second year big man Jason Thompson. He invites us fans out to “Paint the Town” purple this weekend and has lots of nice things to say about our town:

Now that I’ve lived here a year, I just like how clean the city of Sacramento is. It’s one of those cities where there aren’t too many distractions. I think Mayor Kevin Johnson does a good job with security, and everywhere I go people treat me with respect. People of Sacramento really know how to treat people right and it keeps everyone out of trouble.

Welcome to the Sactosphere, JT!! Maybe you can get a Squirty Tip of your own.