{"id":292945,"date":"2026-04-30T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:16:21","slug":"california-classic-returns-to-sacramento-and-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/292945\/","title":{"rendered":"California Classic returns to Sacramento and San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors on Wednesday announced plans to co-host the eighth annual California Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The summer showcase will be held July 4-6 at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento and July 3, 5 and 6 at Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event will feature an expanded field. The Kings, Warriors, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks will play in Sacramento. The Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs will play in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the schedule for games in Sacramento:<\/p>\n<p>July 4: Warriors vs. Bucks, noon; Kings vs. Nets, 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>July 5: Bucks vs. Nets, noon; Kings vs. Warriors, 2 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>July 6: Nets vs. Warriors, 5 p.m.; Kings vs. Bucks, 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Kings, Sacramento River Cats and Stockton Kings season ticket holders currently have exclusive early access to multiday passes for games at Golden 1 Center. Beginning Thursday, the general public can purchase passes for all three days at Golden 1 Center by visiting<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/caclassic\"> Kings.com\/CAClassic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further details, including team rosters and broadcast information, will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The California Classic will serve as a warmup for the Las Vegas Summer League, which will be held July 9-19 at UNLV\u2019s Thomas &amp; Mack Center. Summer league teams feature rookies, second-year players and other young prospects vying for spots on NBA and G League rosters.<\/p>\n<p>Summer league games feature 10-minute quarters. A highlight of the California Classic will be the Battle of NorCal showdown when the Kings and Warriors play for the Mitch Richmond Trophy on Day 2 in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings hosted the first California Classic in 2018. In 2024, the Kings and Warriors co-hosted the first dual site California Classic. In 2025, the Warriors hosted the event after the Kings chose not to participate.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/221350135\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SAC_Jason_Anderson_Author_Mug.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Jason Anderson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/221350135\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Jason Anderson is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Kings beat writer. He is a Sacramento native and a graduate of Fresno State, where he studied journalism and college basketball under the late Jerry Tarkanian.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors on Wednesday announced plans to co-host the eighth annual California Classic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-292945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}