40 wins and 26 losses! Breaking the 17-year curse of team history, the West's sleepiest lion wakes up, and the Sun Warriors watch out
When Warriors chief assistant Mike Brown announced his appointment as head coach of the Sacmento Kings last offseason, he said his first big thing in the presidency was to lead the team to the playoffs. Although it was tough, he is confident that he and his team will do it and never disappoint the Sacmento fans! Because the luxury team that swept the league with Princeton's style of play in the past has not made the playoffs for 17 years, and the bad Kings were once Western giants, it's time for their sleeping lions to wake up!
In the first half of the new season, the Kings did not have an impressive record and even hovered in the play-off qualification zone. This is also in line with everyone's existing cognition of them, because this super fish-belly team is like that, it is normal that they cannot make the playoffs, and it is not normal if they do! Think about it, there are no league superstars in the Kings' team, and the biggest names on the team are Fox and Sabonis Jr., who are not the league's first-line superstars. In this way, it is inevitable that Sacmento will be looked down upon! After all, the Wild West is so strong that who cares about the King of Sacmento led by Mike Brown!
But everyone seems to have forgotten Mike Brown's poisonous oath when he took over the King's whip to lead the team to break the curse of not making the playoffs for 17 years. Soon, this team with a few warrior shadows began to burst out with amazing energy! A seven-game winning streak last November gradually got the league to pay attention to them, followed by another six-game winning streak in January and a five-game winning streak in late February and early March. Winning wave after wave of Kings has finally made league teams start to realize how terrifying their skyrocketing growth is! Unknowingly, the King also went from the play-off qualifying zone to the top four in the West, on par with the Memphis Grizzlies and Phoenix Suns in the West!
And after beating the Suns 128-119 away today to win three straight games, the Kings of the Day have once again refreshed their perception. After this campaign, the Kings became the seventh team in the league to win 40 this season, bringing the record to 40-26, which further cemented their second place in the West. Statistically, this is the first time in Kings history that they have reached 40+ single-season wins since 2005-06. They advanced to the playoffs in 2005-06 with a 44-38 finish eighth in the West, and the Kings haven't tasted the playoffs since. This means that in the past 17 years, the Kings have completely fallen into the curse of missing the playoffs, and no matter how hard they struggle, they have never been able to break the curse and get out of the predicament!
There's no doubt that the Kings, currently second-best in the West, are sure to make the playoffs this year, and what they want now is probably more than just the first round of the playoffs. They may not have the strength to rush to the championship, but it will definitely be a huge stumbling block for the Suns, Warriors, Grizzlies, Nuggets and other teams to break out of the West. The lion, which has been sleeping for 17 years, finally woke up like a dream, and it is sure that the western team will look good! Warrior Suns, beware!