StR favorite Kurt from Forum Blue & Gold has his game preview up, and he has some nice things to say about our Kings:

Marty McNeal's column today makes me feel good about Planet Earth. Read it if you would also like to feel good about Planet Earth.

There has been a redesign.

Pyramid of Excess with the blog find of the season.

Hardwood Paroxysm has commandeered the 2008 Basketblog Awards. You can vote here.

While we're here... you'll be excited to know Sactown Royalty will be switching over to the SB Nation 2.0 platform (as seen on Athletics Nation and McCovey Chronicles) next week, just in time for the postsea-- oh, yeah. Just in time for ... um, next week.

I'm very excited about the move. So, um, get your desks tidy and all that. Don't want to forget anything, you know?

The Bee's Melody Gutierrez has a fun story about how to watch the Kings play live without forking out too much money. I buy the $10 tickets almost exclusively -- as Melody notes, they are literally no different than most $25 seats, and the sight lines are good all over the building. It's a different experience down at courtside, of course. But you get more from the game in Section 215, Row S than from the living room sofa.

We do things a bit differently than Gutierrez. I never park outside the ARCO lots. Ten bucks is steep, but I prefer to avoid playing Frogger with 1,000 drunk drivers to get back to my car. (This might not be so bad now that the barn's empty, of course.) Also, we avoid arena food for cheap eats at In 'n' Out Burger. I know, I know... the mile-long pre-game drive-thru line looks daunting. But they work fast; it speeds right by.

So really, we're giving the Maloofs $30 for two people to see a game, which isn't bad at all. The movies after 6 p.m. would $19. The typical dinner is somewhere between $25 and $60. If you plan a bit, a Kings game can be right within the affordable wheelhouse.

A sports columnist from the paper in Kevin Martin's tiny hometown has a bone to pick with Geoff Petrie:

Two quick March Madness items:

• Sign up for the Sactown Madness pool resourceful member coolcat set up. Winner receives: eternal glory, future considerations.
• My cartographic streak has again gotten the better of me, resulting in Mapping the NCAAs.

UPDATE: And we'd be remiss not to pass on the beauty of this Pyramid of Excess preview.

ESPN's David Thorpe slips Spencer Hawes into his rookie Top 10 for the first time, and offers the following analysis in his Rookie Watch column:

• Tremendous blog post by Sam Amick on Reggie Theus.
• Speaking of would-be Kings head coaches, TrueHoop interviews Terry Porter.
• The Rockets (17 straight) make Shoals think of the early Adelman Kings.