2008-09 Schedule Released

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The season starts earlier this year!

YAY!

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 9:44 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

seems to me we always start on the road and that we are the opponent in numerous home openers each year… tough way to start a season, especially with our local weed merchant on the bench for the first five…

by longtimelistenerfirsttimecaller on Aug 6, 2008 9:55 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

True

Didn’t we get three or four opponent’s home openers last year?

Kevin Pritchard has Chuck Norris tied up in the trunk of his car.

by otis29 on Aug 6, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks UNIX NBA Scheduling Robot

Yay! 4 Road games to open up. A lottery team’s wet dream. I was hoping for a full 41 to get them out of the way.

by LiquidPolio on Aug 6, 2008 10:10 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

No Oklahoma City

The Kings do not travel to Oklahoma City to play the Unsonics this year. I can hear the anguished howls from the players now. In other news, Sacramento is no longer the biggest cowtown in the NBA.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 10:57 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

That has to be wrong. Every team visits every other team once.

by Ziller on Aug 6, 2008 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Could be wrong, but

A quick count shows 41 road games for the Kings, and none against OKC.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's a typo on the schedule

There is a trip to Seattle that has to mean Oklahoma City.

BOOK IT!

by kingme18 on Aug 6, 2008 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm...maybe if we keep quiet, and show up to Key Arena, we can force a forfeit.

by LiquidPolio on Aug 6, 2008 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Orlando

The Kings play Orlando without Brad Miller, which means we’ve got Dwight Howard versus Spencer Hawes. Hawes should wear a helmet for that one so the dunks bouncing off his head don’t give him a concussion. :-)

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 10:59 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

LOL!

Spencer can probably score 20+ on Howard…but I fear he might give up double that – especially if he can’t keep him more than couple feet from the basket. I’m not certain Brad would do a ton better on the defensive end.

Trial by fire, baby!

by Kusian on Aug 6, 2008 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good point

Howard against the Kings last season: 27.5 points, 12.5 rebounds and he shot 81%. No, that’s not a misprint. Eighty one percent. I guess it can’t get much worse than that.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't Brad

go double double animal style on Howard? I know that he had two last year, one against Okafor.

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by section214 on Aug 6, 2008 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not sure what that is

But Brad had a total of 10 rebounds in 71 minutes against Orlando. Howard had 25 rebounds in 72 minutes, so Hawes probably isn’t going to do any worse.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's 20+

points and rebounds, and it turns out that he did it against Charlotte and Chicago.

SACTOWN ROYALTY - Try our thick creamy shakes!

by section214 on Aug 6, 2008 8:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

December 16-22 Road trip

Tue 16 @ Portland
Fri 19 @ Houston
Sat 20 @ New Orleans
Mon 22 @ San Antonio

OUCH.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 11:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Followed by three home games and four more road games

So the Kings play that murderers row, then come home for three games (one against Boston) and play four more on the road. That’s eight of eleven on the road from mid December to early January. Ugly.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ouch is right.

I have to watch the Kings play the Spurs for the last game of their road trip on my birthday.

Double Ouch.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

LOVE starting out on the road every year!!

at least this time we have some winnable games.

by GOKINGS on Aug 6, 2008 11:29 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We never win in Miami, Orlando and Philly are going to be good. Minnesota is the only conceivable win but w/o Brad, its gonna be tough

BOOK IT!

by kingme18 on Aug 6, 2008 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

TZ

Does Sactown Royalty ever put up a thing so that the posters here can make a projection on the season wins/losses before the season starts?

by Bluejohn on Aug 6, 2008 1:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Fanpost

You probably ought to wait until the preseason, but you could certainly writeup a Fanpost doing just that.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

They need to re-do the brackets

Oklahoma City is not in the North West.

by CloudyEyes on Aug 6, 2008 3:24 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They should swap

Pho and Por. Arizona isn’t a Pacific state, but Oregon is. Then change the name Northwest to Mid-West(Utah, Denver, OKC, Min, Phoenix).

No wait Phoenix should be in the Southwest. So take Memphis out of the Southwest(WTF is Memphis doing in the west anyway). Swap them to the Southeast. Take Washington out of the Southeast(why are they there?). Put Washington in the Atlantic and move Toronto to the Central and move Milwaukee to the newly named Mid-West. That should work.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Huh?

by eduardo_m7 on Aug 6, 2008 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe you should draw a map, Kfan.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was kind of a joke

Once you start moving things it becomes all crazy. But if I was going to reorganize the divisions they’d look something like this(changes in Bold):

Atlantic: Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York.
Central: Detroit, Cleveland, Indiana, Chicago, Toronto
Southeast: Orlando, Atlanta, Charlotte, Miami, Memphis

Midwest: Utah, Denver, Minnesota, Milwaukee, OKC
Pacific: Kings, Lakers, Clippers, GS, Portland
Southwest: New Orleans, Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Every division changes

That’s fair.

Again, though, it makes too much sense for it to ever actually happen.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think the NBA

is really trying to develop a sense of “division rivalry” that is so strong in the NFL and MLB – if your enemy teams are all one state over, it increases the loyalty. Why do you think Giants and Jets fans love themselves and hate each other so much?
Why that ties into this: though the move makes sense, it’s hard to create division rivalries if teams keep swapping divisions.

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by iashwash on Aug 7, 2008 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs