{"id":30328,"date":"2025-10-30T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30328\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:46:10","slug":"are-the-sacramento-kings-already-on-the-path-to-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/30328\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Sacramento Kings already on the path to the lottery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been just over one week, but the 2025-26 Sacramento Kings appear to be on the fast track to a lackluster season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/author\/sam-amick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Athletic\u2018s Sam Amick<\/a> joined The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross on Thursday to share his thoughts on the Kings\u2019 1-4 start, highlight Zach LaVine\u2019s impressive play, lay out the tough road ahead for Sacramento, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the entire interview with Sam Amick on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SactownSports1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sactown Sports 1140 YouTube page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761839168_609_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Topics Discussed<\/p>\n<p>Sam\u2019s feelings on what the Sacramento Kings are currently trying to accomplish<br \/>\nAre the Kings trying to genuinely compete?<br \/>\nDo early implications tell us that Zach LaVine will pick up his option for 2026-27?<br \/>\n\u201cOn their list of issues at the moment, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s one at the moment.\u201d<br \/>\nIs there a growing chance that LaVine is upping his trade value?<br \/>\nHow glaring has the absence of Keegan Murray been?<br \/>\nAlthough the Kings have struggled, they have been in close games thus far.<br \/>\n\u201cYou can make the argument that they could be 5-0.\u201d<br \/>\nLaying out the road ahead for Sacramento<br \/>\nLooking around at the rest of the NBA<\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross\u00a0from 6 \u2013 10 a.m. PST, Monday through Friday, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sactown Sports 1140.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/the-drive-with-carmichael-dave\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for full episodes of\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show with\u00a0Jason Ross<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Sacramento Kings content from Sactown Sports<\/p>\n<p>Best-selling author Shea Serrano joined\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross\u00a0to discuss his new book, Expensive Basketball, which is hitting stores this week.<\/p>\n<p>Serrano explained why he felt it was necessary to add the 2001-02 Sacramento Kings to his book, laid out his process for writing a book, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the entire interview with Shea Serrano on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SactownSports1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sactown Sports 1140 YouTube page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/59628\/shea-serrano-kings-expensive-basketball-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shea Sherrano on including the \u201901-02 Kings in his new book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When is the next Sacramento Kings game?<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento will continue a brutal road trip on Saturday when it faces a red-hot Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Through four games this season, the two-time MVP is averaging 36.3 points, 14.0 rebounds, and 7.0 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to catch all of the Kings vs. Bucks action right here on Sactown Sports 1140 AM, with pregame coverage beginning at 12:30 PM PT on Game Night before a 2:00 pm PT tip-off from downtown Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Sacramento Kings schedule for the 2025-26 season<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 1st\u00a0\u2013 @ Milwaukee Bucks \u2013 2:00 PM PT<br \/>\nMonday, November 3rd\u00a0\u2013 @ Denver Nuggets \u2013 6:00 PM PT<br \/>\nWednesday, November 5th\u00a0\u2013 vs. Golden State Warriors \u2013 7:00 PM PT<br \/>\nFriday, November 7th\u00a0\u2013 vs. Oklahoma City Thunder \u2013 7:00 PM PT<br \/>\nSunday, November 9th \u2013 vs. Minnesota Timberwolves \u2013 6:00 PM PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thank you for reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SactownSports.com<\/a>. Follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sactown1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMGengsw2Ki2Aw?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google News<\/a>, and subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SactownSports1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0channel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCartoscelli3\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @FCartoscelli3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SactownSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SactownSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been just over one week, but the 2025-26 Sacramento Kings appear to be on the fast track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1073,121,123,122,3157,3156],"class_list":{"0":"post-30328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-home","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-sactownsports-com","13":"tag-sactownsports-com-sacramento-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328","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=30328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}