Chris Mannix

Sacramento is worse than the Wizards and the Nets?

The Wizards have hope.

The Wizards have Anthony Davis, Trey Young, the number two overall draft pick.

They've got hope in Washington.

Or number one overall draft pick, sorry.

There's hope in Washington.

There's no hope right now in Sacramento.

Like, I'm sorry, there's nothing.

None of the guys, the star is there.

Like, does Zach Levine want to be there?

Does DeMar DeRozan really want to be there?

They've got a couple of good young pieces.

But like Doug Christie, if we're being honest, Doug Christie's basically there just so they don't have to hire another coach that will lose this year.

Like, this year is about losing for Sacramento, which is ironic because the NBA...

with this new draft lottery reform, has punished teams that are bad.

So the Sacramento Kings, theoretically, could finish, probably will finish, with a bottom three record in the NBA, desperately in need of a star player infusion, and they'll get relegated.

They'll get tossed right back to the back of the first round after that.

So Sacramento, to me, a level below the New York Knicks.

It made me think, though, talking about Brunson, to bring it back there for a moment.

elevated to maybe the number one spot in New York lore if they win a championship.