Anthony Davis was overwhelmingly the winner of StR's 2012 first pick to absolutely nobody's surprise. To the few that didn't vote for Anthony Davis, I have this awesome bridge for sale. E-mail me.

When a choice comes up, pick who you'd want the Kings to pick given all the players remaining. Note: THIS IS NOT A MOCK DRAFT. This is draft board, a list with the order of prospects you'd like to see the Kings pick. In other words, if we were the Kings front office, when our pick came up, we'd take the top name left on our board. So pick your choice, not who you think Geoff Petrie or anyone else would choose in a slot.

Explain your choice in the comments, and lobby for who should be added to the next pick's choices.

This poll ends at 5 AM tomorrow. The next one will be begin shortly thereafter. We will go roughly 20 picks deep.

In Sacramento, the city could not get the local NBA owners to commit to a 30-year lease on an arena primarily funded by the public. The public would have contributed $255 million of the $400 million needed. The city found a willing partner in arena operator AEG, who would put up $70 million. The city worked with the NBA itself to come up with financing for the owners. The city got elected officials' approval and buy-in from the most powerful member of the state Legislature. But the owners would not commit.

In the Bay Area, the local NBA owners will announce Tuesday that they plan to build a new NBA arena and entertainment complex on the Embarcadero near Pier 32. It will be privately financed, though there will surely be cooperation from the public sector. The new Golden State Warriors' ownership group paid a record $450 million for the team, and will now build an arena that will in all likelihood push the $500 million level.

San Francisco is a much, much stronger market than Sacramento in every way: population, corporate sponsorship, TV audience, wealthy people who like to be seen count. But the poles are so disparate, so incredible in their contrast that it cannot be ignored.

One set of owners has enough money to invest in their club and their market. Ninety minutes away, the other can't even afford to spend someone else's money. It's as simple as that.

Welcome to the 2012 Sactown Royalty Community Draft Board. This is the readership's opportunity to create a democratic draft board which represents the order in which we as a collective would like the Kings' draft board to look like. It does not represent the desires of individual writers or fans (trust me ...), but some semblance of the community's collective thinking.

Since I've now analyzed this year's draft class over the past three days, I thought I'd follow it up with my annual draft board. What follows is my Top 15 picks, in order (as well as a few people I'd look at with the 34th/35th picks), with comparisons, analysis, and video that you may or may not take seriously. Feel free to agree or disagree with me. I do not claim to be a genius, or even smart, and for every good suggestion I make (Isaiah Thomas), I've also made terrible suggestions (like in 2010 when I put Evan Turner over John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins and Al-Farouq Aminu and Ekpe Udoh ahead of Greg Monroe).

Hit the jump for the draft board. I apologize in advance for some of the terrible music selection of some of the highlight videos.

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There is plenty of time for shifting and wavering, but as of right now, DraftExpress has Bradley Beal at the No. 5 pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, and as of right now, the Kings are slated to pick No. 5. Ergo, Beal to the Kings.

If the Kings do end up with the No. 5 or 6 pick, chances are we'll be having that ol' "best player available even if we have a glut there?" debate for the next month. Beal is a really lovely prospect, but he's a true shooting guard, where the Kings have at least Tyreke Evans and Marcus Thornton and possibly Jimmer Fredette. Do you take the player with the best chance of becoming a star ... or do you reach to fill a need at small forward or in the frontcourt? Choices, choices.

Ahead of Beal, DX has Anthony Davis, Andre Drummond, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Thomas Robinson. The most likely to slip of those would be Drummond, who a) has that nasty ol' "problem child" tag and b) got smoked by Davis and Kentucky in the tournament.*

Stay tuned for lots more draft talk today. And vote in the poll!

* Welp, that didn't happen! Drummond and UConn got smoked by Royce White in the first round.