Sacramento Kings

The Sacramento Kings basketball team plays in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Known first as the Rochester Royals, the Sacramento Kings are one of the original seventeen teams to join the NBA at its birth. Prior to that, they won the National Basketball League (NBL) Championship during its second year in the league. After that, they moved over to the NBLs rival league, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) before the two leagues merged into the NBA.

The Sacramento Kings are also known as the Cincinnati Royals, the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, and the Kansas City Kings. In 1985 the franchise moved to Sacramento where they took on their latest name. They now play in the ARCO arena located in a once isolated area outside the expanding northern outskirts of Sacramento, California. The construction cost of forty million make it the cheapest and smallest site in the NBA.

Jack Twyman, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, and Happy Hairston all played for the Sacramento Kings. Players on the 2006-07 NBA Sacramento Kings roster include Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Mike Bibby, Ronnie Price and Kevin Martin. The Sacramento Kings head coach position once belonged to Rick Adelman. In 2006, Eric Musselman took over. After just one season he was fired, leaving the team without a head coach.

The Maloof family owns the Sacramento Kings basketball franchise, along with several other professional sports franchises and business properties. The Maloof family's newest campaign centers on building a six hundred million dollar facility in Sacramento. Taxpayers fund this arena. Visit the NBA website to learn more about the Sacramento Kings arena update.

The Sacramento Kings jersey colors are black, purple and silver. Jason Williams Sacramento Kings jersey displays his number, 55. The Sacramento Kings logo as of 2007 shows the teams name in purple, white and black on a silver crown with purple and silver jousting poles. The former logo shows the teams name over a red crown and blue basketball. Together they form a shield.

The NBA Sacramento Kings team store carries merchandise with the teams name and logo. Fans buy Sacramento Kings sweatshirts, foam fingers, hats, and more. Their website also carries Sacramento Kings wallpaper free to download.

Visit the National Basketball Associations website to find information on where to find Sacramento Kings tickets and view the Sacramento Kings schedule. The collector can find cheap Sacramento Kings tickets of past games on auction sites such as E-bay.