Another year, another city edition design from Nike. This year’s version is a recolor of the gray 2022-23 designs, but with a deep purple color and violet accents meant to evoke the Beam. The Kings announced the jerseys yesterday on 916 Day and have already made the jerseys available for presale.
My personal opinion is these jerseys are fine. Better than some we’ve had in the past but nothing truly special. The use of violet is something unique we haven’t had before but at least there’s nothing too obnoxious or offensive (like those red jerseys we had. Truly awful). But it’s hard to truly care about any of these jerseys when there’s simply a new one each year. I miss the days when a new jersey being announced actually felt special. Even when there are some truly great designs, they’re not around for long because Nike simply wants you to buy the next new thing. It also feels like very little thought went into designing this jersey given it’s simply a color palette swap of a preexisting design (with maybe a few different touches). That’s just my two cents though. What are your thoughts on the new jersey?
Look fine. Won’t be buying one, but they look fine to me.
I would buy one if there was anyone on the roster I was both excited about and confident they’d be around for more than a year or two.
And if the money didn’t go to Vivek. Sell the Team!
You could get a “Ranadive” jersey. We all know he will be around for a long time.
This. Looks like a fine jersey but I’m not spending a penny on this team until they start making better decisions.
New jersey, bad roster. I guess they will look good while getting beat in those jerseys.
They look great, however, I don’t think we will be seeing the beam very much at Golden None Center this year.
Also side discussion. Should the beam be put out to pasture? I feel that on a team that doesn’t win often it’s more of a mocking point now than something truly unique.
“We took your team to a farm upstate, where it can play and frolic!”
Can I get one with “Cash Considerations” on the back? Or maybe “Yep-Shooting Guard.” Or “Vivek, SELL!” Asking for a friend.
“Future 2nd Rd. Pick”
Tempted to buy a custom and put “RIP Roy Al”
I bought myself a Hali city edition a few years back, then he got traded.
I found a Fox city edition in a thrift store early last season and bought it on the cheap, then he got traded.
Part of me wonders if I should buy all five of this year’s city editions just to see if a I truly wield that curse.
Just don’t get one with your name on it. We don’t want you to get traded.
Just make sure to buy a guard…
Get with Vivek’s name on it. 😉
^This is the way^
You are giving me serious thought about making a Ranadive jersey with the number 86. It would likely get me James Dolan’d out of the arena, but damn that would be an awesome spectacle. I’d make a scene that would be news worthy.
Better yet…what if we got a contingent of TKH to do the same thing at the same game?
If shit goes sideways early, as many of us think may happen, this could be a great show of passive resistance that this fanbase needs.
I would join in this! I’ll even add a paper bag as a head covering.
have TKH geniuses design it – no $ goes to Ranadive and supports the site.
This team is a walking clusterfuck and all they can do is introduce yet another jersey. ????
This is the most “old man yells at cloud” article ever and I’m here for it.
OT.
In case any fans were feeling positive regarding the Perry era. Not off to a good start, but hopefully we can sign Westbrook lol:
“In February, the Sacramento Kings traded two second-round picks and a minimum-contract player, Sidy Cissoko, to the Wizards in exchange for Jonas Valančiūnas.
In July, with no notable change in Valančiūnas’ ability, the Kings traded him to the Denver Nuggets for the remains of Dario Šarić. Thus, in the course of two transaction cycles, the Kings turned two future second-round draft picks into the unwanted $5.4 million contract of a washed-up player. Congratulations, Kangz. You’ve outdone yourselves.
The motivation for the second Valančiūnas trade was to get the Kings below the luxury tax threshold to facilitate other moves, but it was not a necessary precondition either. The Kings would have been just $600,000 over the tax line if they had held onto Valančiūnas and made all the other same moves this offseason. That number will perhaps increase if their rumored Russell Westbrook acquisition ever comes to fruition, but if they kept Valančiūnas, the Kings presumably wouldn’t have needed to sign Drew Eubanks either.
Avoiding the tax by that small an amount isn’t some insurmountable hurdle. The Kings could have traded cash and a fungible end-of-roster player at the Jan. 5 guarantee date, as long as that player’s deal wasn’t fully guaranteed (basically, this would have worked with Isaac Jones or whatever they had done with Eubanks’ roster spot).
The other part of this that I’m not even dunking on is the “sign Dennis Schröder for the full midlevel exception” aspect, which was the other half of Sacramento’s cap logic. The Kings did need a point guard, but they didn’t need to go to the full non-taxpayer MLE for Schröder, which is the thing that put them in the position of trading Valančiūnas for Šarić. They could have signed Tyus Jones or D’Angelo Russell for half the money; both are three years younger and arguably better players.
However, more than anything, the process from February to July highlights how the Kings muddle along, moving in fits and starts from one plan to another and from one front office to another, burning assets along the way. The relative normalcy of the Mike Brown era was all too brief.”
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6626893/2025/09/18/nba-2025-offseaon-moves-mikal-bridges-jordan-poole/
What makes this story line worse, is I believe Hollinger’s numbers are off. The Kings are currently $5.4M below the tax line, and that number recently grew thanks to the Kings non-guaranteeing TD’s deal by cutting him. That means had the Kings never done the JV for Saric trade, they’d still be under that tax line by about $400K. JV makes $10.4M this year to Saric’s $5.4. That’s a $5M difference, while the Kings currently sit $5.4M below the tax. Of course, this also doesn’t take into consideration Eubanks. Remove Eubanks $2.3M contract, add that to the $400K they would have been under the tax and they’d be sitting $2.7M below the tax with 14 rostered players. That’s enough money to sign any free agent with 5 or less years of experience to a vet minimum deal.
This all makes me wonder if Perry is still lining up to sign Westbook to a deal. FWIW, a vet minimum deal for any player with over 10 years of experience (Westbrook) is $3.6M. Westbrook reportedly wouldn’t e-sign with Denver for the vet-minimum and now here sit the Kings with $5.4M. Now, the Kings can’t sign Westtbrook to any more then the vet minimum because they are over the cap. They only way they could give him more is if they have an exception to fit him in.
Folks, the Kings have yet to use their bi-annual exception that is valued at $5.1M. They are also typically 2 years of bi-annual deals. How Kangz would it be to give a soon to be 37 year old Westbrook the full bi-annual deal of $5.1M per year or 2 years? This is what I fear is about to happen.
Does adding vomit mayo to our shit sandwich make things better or worse? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A voshitmit sandwich sounds like something they eat in Australia.
Do you come from a land down under?
What I don’t understand about that trade is the Warriors at the time needed a center. Last I checked, JV is a center. Why not make JV part of the trade to GS for Kuminga? I’m not sold on Kuminga, but if you want him, why not trade a center to a team that needs a center?
I know GS is now set on Horford, and he can hit threes better than JV, but JV is arguably a better defensive force inside than Horford. I don’t get the impression the Kings ever offered JV in a deal for Kuminga. Instead, they made a, I would say, rash deal to jettison JV and later approached GS with nothing GS wanted.
I don’t understand. And I probably don’t want to.
Good point
I think it is evidence of Perry’s horrible miss-read of the offseason. He entered free agency with a singular vision of adding a PG. He immediate overpaid Schröder at the expense of JV. Then RFA re-balanced the market and Kuminga became available. Perry shifted his priorities and has been in a holding pattern ever since, waiting for the Kuminga shoe to drop.
My gut says once Kuminga signs his QO, Perry is going to shift once again and will overpay for Westbrook.
There is zero long term goal or objective here, just band-aids on bullet holes and names on the backs of jerseys to sell tickets.
It stinks of the Vlade salary dump trade with Philly so we could sign win now FAs and then ended up with what? Belly, Kosta and Rondo? But we did get 4 more wins that next season.
We’re f’d for the next few seasons, but at least we haven’t squandered our future draft capital. Yet.
I don’t want either of the two, Kuminga or Westbrook. Kuminga a long with LaVine and Derozan just aces out Keegan Murray. Why would you do that.Keegan is a far better player than Kuminga but I guess the Kings don’t think so. Westbrook is over the hill. If the goal of the Kings is to get better then and want to trade Monk use him to get younger players to rebuild. I saw a trade scenerio where Monk goes to the Magic for Anthony Black and Jett Howard. Makes more sense to me.
If you keep DDR then put him on the bench and then your starting lineup would be Schroder, Ellis ( he deserves to start), LaVine, Murray and Sabonis. This gives Keegan a better chance to shine where he deserves to be. With Ellis now you have two really good defenders one in the front court and one in the back court.
At this point, you probably shouldn’t be afraid of upcoming front office blunders anymore.
Next on Pablo Torre’s investigation: How signing into the Kings FO is actually a no-show contract. Owner is the only one managin the franchise.
Vivek is using these contracts to circumvent the playoffs, not the salary cap.
Lol. The playoffs hate this one simple trick!
I hope we get an article on here about the rumored relationship between Anjali Ranadive, while she was working in Stockton, and Chance Comanche (the accused murderer and ex-Stockton King). Hopefully some local media will Pablo Torre this story, but I doubt it.
Yay! Ask and I shall receive!
You wasted it! Should have asked for Vivek to sell the team!
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