Another season of Kings basketball is upon us and if you take the ownership / arena issues out of the equation, this looks to be one of the more promising starts to a season we've had in a few years. The front office finally decided to crawl their asses off the salary floor and we have the most depth we've seen on the bench since possibly the Bench Mob. I'm excited to witness DeMarcus'progression into Beast-Hood, to witness Tyreke find his place on the court and finally dominate it, for IT to continue his phenomenal transition from relative unknown to repeated ESPN highlight reel lobs to T-Rob / Throb / Thor / Mini-Beast / Blake who?

Anyway, in the interest of Zen, I offer my (semi) annual Kings Haiku(s)-

Defense addressed, Smart.

Cousins, 'Reke and Co. excel

Bewildered, teams fall.

and...

Sacramento love

Combine with road wins. Kings surge

towards number 8 seed

and finally (I tried, just couldn't resist...)

Kings fans don't waver

New owners or bust, Maloofs

Don't talk. Please just leave.

Looking forward to contributions below, most rec'd gets a Ziller buck and one week of Wally Wages, which you can apparently trade in for a pair of replacement ref bifocals and snuffaluffagus fur socks at The Foot Locker. Happy Halloween, NBA season, and of course - GO KINGS...!!!