Jared Weiss

So- Is that true?

Yeah, tanking is in my blood, Andrew.

Dang.

For the Kings, this is pretty incredible considering going into the season, we were not thinking of them as an obvious tank team.

Like they put together a roster that most of us hated, but there were still so many names we recognized, it was hard to view their roster construction as a deliberate tank.

But now that we've seen how it's played out, did Scott Perry Jedi mind trick us into putting together the greatest secret tank in NBA history?

This ultimately, though, is great news for the Kings because they currently have the third worst record.

They're already two and a half games up on the Wizards in the reverse standings.

Everyone knows that the Kings didn't make the playoffs for 16 straight seasons.

Andrew, how many times during that 16-year stretch did they finish with a bottom three record?

Oh, man.

What would you guess?

Twice?

That's right, Andrew.

Oh, is that right?

Yeah.

2009 and 2010.

Now, the bad news is they actually dropped in the lottery both of those years, dropping to four in 2009 when they took Tyreek Evans.

That was when they had the best overall odds, a 25% chance of the number one pick, and they dropped all the way to four.

And then they dropped to five in 2010 when they took Boogie.