Believe it or not, the Sacramento Kings are off to a remarkable start to the 2022-23 season. With a record of 13-9, they are currently the fifth seed in the Western Conference. If things stay like this, the Kings can end their 16-year playoff drought, the longest playoff drought for any team in the NBA right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything is going right for this Sacramento team, and this is something that the franchise has been lacking for 16 long years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kings head coach Mike Brown has been the missing leader this organization needed; De\u2019Aaron Fox<\/a> is quietly making a case for himself as an All-Star this year, Domantas Sabonis<\/a> has settled in well into this Kings offense since arriving from the Indiana Pacers, Kevin Huerter<\/a> is shooting lights out, and the rookie Keegan Murray<\/a> is emerging as a promising young talent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Sunday, when Sacramento defeated the Chicago Bulls 110-101 to win their third consecutive game, seven players for the Kings impressively ended the game, scoring in double-digits. Malik Monk<\/a> led the way with 20 points. Following the victory, Monk told NBC Sports<\/a> that the Kings are legit this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We’re legit, man. We’re legit, because [Kings coach] Mike [Brown] is going to push us so hard that we can’t not be legit,” Monk told NBC Sports California’s Kyle Draper and Kenny Thomas on “Kings Postgame Live.” “There’s a lot of stuff that goes into it. We’re a young team and a lot of guys that need to get to the playoffs. A lot of us haven’t been there yet, and we all want the same goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sacramento will look to keep up their winning ways against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Believe it or not, the Sacramento Kings are off to a remarkable start to the 2022-23 season. With a record of 13-9, they are currently the fifth seed in the Western Conference. If things stay like this, the Kings can end their 16-year playoff drought, the longest playoff drought for any team in the NBA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":767558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[13005,10036,13380,64153,62608,10506,799,13007,120],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-767554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-keegan-murray","tag-kevin-huerter","tag-malik-monk","tag-mike-brown","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-sacramento-kings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767570,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767554\/revisions\/767570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767554"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=767554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}