The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team which is based in Sacramento, California. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The franchise that would become the Sacramento Kings initially played in Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League. Success was almost immediate: founded in 1945, the team won the NBL championship in 1946. In 1948, the Royals moved to the Basketball Association of America, which absorbed the NBL the following year to become the National Basketball Association. The Royals won the NBA title in 1951, which remains the only championship in the team’s history. Top players in this era included Arnie Risen and Bob Davies, both Hall of Famers.
In 1957, the Royals moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. The team landed two top stars in Maurice Stokes and Jack Twymann. Stokes’ promising career ended tragically due to a brain injury that resulted from a fall during a game. Twyman was the first Royal to average 30 points per game for a season. Both are Hall of Famers. The team’s star players throughout the 1960s were Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas. Robertson met with individual...
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