Sacramento Kings: 2018-19 NBA season preview
By Luke Swiatek
Predictions
As previously stated, the Sacramento Kings aren’t making the playoffs this year. Good thing they have their first round pick, right???
This season should be considered a penance for the sins of front offices past. it will be ugly (not depths-of-The-Process ugly), but the team won’t win a lot of games. The Kings should be decently fun if Joerger embraces the youth movement fully, but they still won’t be good.
According to Basketball-Reference, the Sacramento Kings’ stats suggested that they should have won 23 games last year instead of 27, and that they just got a bit lucky on occasion. Considering the talent they added, I can’t condone putting them lower than last year’s expectation.
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Yet in a conference where every other team improved while the Kings’ best player might be a rookie, I can’t really condone putting them any higher than last year’s actual record either. Let’s split the difference with a prediction of 25-57 when all is said and done.