With a 120-80 win Wednesday, the Sacramento Kings officially punched their ticket for the 2023 NBA playoffs. That's right: After 16 long years, the longest playoff drought the NBA has ever seen is now officially over. Light the friggin' beam.
in the 2018 NBA Draft — the next three players off the board: Luka Dončić, Jaren Jackson Jr., Trae Young — amid year after year of losing.one mammoth change the Kings made at the 2022 trade deadline
— sending ascendant young point guard Tyrese Haliburton and 3-point sharpshooter Buddy Hield to the Indiana Pacers in exchange for gifted offensive center Domantas Sabonis — and another they made in the offseason, hiring Mike Brown off the champion Warriors' bench to be their new head coach. "What Mike [...] said before the season started, it instilled confidence in us," All-Star point guard De'Aaron Fox recently."Hell, he might make you believe you're better than you are. Every night, we go out there and we expect to win. You know you're not going to win every game. But you go out there and expect to win."
As much as Brown — who cut his teeth with Gregg Popovich's Spurs, presided over elite defenses during his time in Cleveland and served as Steve Kerr's lead defensive lieutenant in Golden State — might prefer those expected wins come via consistent strings of stops, these Kings, like their C-Webb-era forerunners, win with their offense. Sacramento, scoring 176 points in a double-overtime thriller to beat the Clippers.
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