The bad luck of the Sacramento Kings continues in the NBA design truck

The NBA design of the draft truck is filled with a collection of WAS-WIFs for the Sacramento Kings. Happiness in the lottery was rare.

The kings have been in the lottery every year since 2007 and have only risen twice from their position – in 2018 and 2022. Keegan Murray was the fourth election in 2022. He is not the star of the team and the fans hoped that he would be, but he is at least a rotational player in the NBA.

Do not even mention in Sacramento in 2018. The kings designed Marvin Bagley III. Second, ahead of Luka Dončić, who was selected by the Atlanta Hawk's third and then traded on the Dallas Mavericks. It was a movement that Sacramento kept while losing.

What happened on Monday was like a cruel prank played on the franchise.

The chances were against the kings who had a choice in the lottery this year. They had to be among the top 12 to keep their choice, or it would go from their summer 2022 to the Atlanta Hawks, who landed Kevin Huerter, who collapsed after a good first season and acted to Chicago Bulls last February.

Sacramento only had a chance of 3.8 percent to move to the top 4 and a chance of 0.8 percent, to select first on Monday. Neither passed.

Dallas, who took 10th place in the Western Conference and a game behind the kings in the overall ranking, won the lottery. Dallas, who blown out the kings in Sacramento in a game tournament game, had a chance of 1.8 percent to achieve number 1.

The Mavericks are now able to expand Cooper Flag to a team with Anthony Davis and to return from an ACL injury next season.

One of the few lottery selection that kings have done right in almost 20 years – De'aaron Fox – was traded in San Antonio in February. The Spurs that this year's Draft pick did not give up in the deal just saw how their team got better. FOX is already team -mate with the last two winners of the Rookie of the Year, Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle, and he will soon be accompanied by number 2 in the upcoming draft.

We all knew that the Sacramento Kings would probably not have a design when we woke up this morning.

This is probably the worst scenario for the kings. The team that they exchanged with De'aaron Fox has the 2nd choice, and the Dallas Mavericks receive the top election with 1 less profit.

– Matt George (@mattgeorgesac) May 12, 2025

This does not even include the lottery election of Sacramento, Tyrese Haliburton, and is about to reach the final of the Eastern Conference with the Indiana Pacers. Even Davion Mitchell, a Kings Lottery Pick from 2021, helped the Miami Heat to make the playoffs.

A little luck would have put a long way in Sacramento, which would not be in this position a few years ago. The kings were the favorites of the NBA in 2023, after ending a 16-year-old Playoff Dürre and taking third place in the Western Conference before losing the Golden State Warriors in seven games in the first round.

Monte McNair, NBA Executive of 2023, and Mike Brown, the coach in 2023 of the year, both disappeared. The new general manager Scott Perry and coach Doug Christie are in her place after Christie removed the intermardage after this season.

Kings fans are a resilient pile. You have passed on the team during several ways of moving and an impressive list of future Hall of Famers in the lottery.

It started in 2009 with Tyreke Evans via Stephen Curry. Evans won rookie of the year, but he never became a star. Sacramento passed on Klay Thompson and Kawhi Leonard for Jimmer Fredette in 2011. Damian Lillard passed the kings in favor of Thomas Robinson in 2012. They only designed Ben McLemore in 2013 to see how Giannis Antetokounmpo later selected eight picks.

Devin Booker would make sense in 2015, but the Kings set up a center, Willie Cauley-Stein, to go to her all-star-center demarcus cousins. And they couldn't build around cousins ​​and finally acted him in 2017 after making the fifth choice in 2010.

Haliburton became an all-star with the Pacers, but that seemed okay because the kings got an all-star in Domantas Sabonis in a trade in 2022. Sabonis is still with the kings, but Sacramento is back in the transition.

Christie is loved in Sacramento. He was part of the city's best basketball with coach Rick Adelman and led the program to several profit records as a player and within a game of the NBA final in 2002.

But it is more difficult to rely on nostalgia because the nights have stacked themselves for almost two decades. It was another evening full of bad luck, which has become the norm for Sacramento in the lottery.

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