The Sacramento Kings announced their 2022-23 schedule this afternoon. The full schedule, as well as a printable version, is available on the Kings website.
The Kings will kick off the season on Wednesday, October 19th as they host the Portland Trail Blazers at Golden 1 Center. Their road opener is three nights later as the Kings visit the Los Angeles Clippers on October 22nd.
Some other key facts the Kings provided:
The Kings longest homestand features six games: Monday, Dec. 19 through Friday, Dec. 30 hosting Charlotte (Dec. 19), L.A. Lakers (Dec. 21), Washington (Dec. 23), Denver (Dec. 27, Dec. 28) and Utah (Dec. 30).
The Kings longest road trip features seven games: Sat, Jan. 28 through Wednesday, Feb. 8 against Minnesota (Jan. 28, Jan. 30), San Antonio (Feb. 1), Indiana (Feb. 3), New Orleans (Feb. 5) and Houston (Feb. 6, Feb. 8).
Of the team’s 15 back-to-back sets, five are home-home, five are away-away, three are away-home and two are home-away.
It’s always hard to assess how hard the schedule will actually be, since we don’t yet know which teams will actually be good or bad, but the first month of the season is usually semi-reasonable to predict. With that caveat out of the way, the Kings will have a tough path early in the season. Portland, Clippers, Warriors, Grizzlies, Heat and Hornets is a strong slate before the Kings even get out of October. How the Kings perform early on could tell us a lot about their hopes to really make a playoff run this season.
So, they have to play the same teams as last year? At home and away?
There will be tougher stretches and easier stretches. When you’re a bad team the tougher stretches look more numerous. Just be a better team. And be ready from day one (yes, I mean you, Fox).
#nomoreexcuses
I agree with you on all of this.
Those first 5 are brutal. If they don’t win against Portland in game 1, I could easily see an 0-5 start to the season. Good thing they only have 5 games in 2 weeks to start the season. Those extra days off may help the team squeak out a few wins.
I’d honestly be fine if they started 2-3, but played hard over the first five games.
Facing the Warriors three times and the Heat twice in the first 12 games is also a tough draw.
Yeah the Warriors, Grizz and Clippers are 3 of my top 4 seeds in the West. And then a lot of Memphis and GS early is pretty tough. But hey it’s put up or shut-up or time so you’ve got to win some of those games if you actually want to compete for anything this year.
It is actually helpful to see Memphis before JJJ gets back to full health. They just lost 2 key rotations players (Melton and Anderson) which were also 2 of their best defensive playmakers. That fact and losing JJJ for half a season should make their defense mediocre, at least until JJJ gets back.
I don’t know what to make of the Clippers this year.
Oh man, the Kings host the GSW for the first time this season on my birthday, so I get to see them get walloped as a birthday gift. 🙁
And that seven game road trip in late January/early February sure looks like it’ll be “fun.”
That 7 game road trip looks someone was seeing how many miles they could squeeze in. North, south, north, south. Someone’s racking up air miles.
82 games and we don’t get to play the Kings even once? FIX!!!
But…..do the Kings get to play the Kangz this season?
Fine by me. The Kings are the team that has kept us out of the playoffs all these years!
It’s just not fair! But…..knowing the Kangz as we do they would probably win one game and lose one game making the point moot anyway.
Really have no idea at all how this is going to play out. I think the Kings have improved. The two areas where it will show out: If the Kings have truly improved they will win games against better teams they are expected to lose. Secondly they will not play down to the competition and will beat the teams they are supposed to beat. They won’t take games off, Fox won’t disappear for games on end. Lastly their defense will be observably better. Likely not great but not league worst either. Simple……not easy.
There it is.
As they stand currently, there are absolutely no teams that they are supposed to beat. They have to show some quality before that can be asserted. They have to improve at least to mediocre. Here’s hoping.
My preseason prediction right now after looking at the schedule: 43 wins and a possible 9-10 seed play-in shot.
13 more wins than last year would be the second largest win% increase in Sacramento history. It’s not unheard of, but also not frequent. I think they’d need some help from other teams and a bit of their own luck to achieve it.
I’m thinking something between 6-9 is more realistic.
FWIW, I think 40 wins (10 win improvement) gets you into the play-in tournament
Let’s go 40 wins!
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Last year they started off 5-4 against what was thought to be a strong schedule, beating the likes of PHX and Portland on the road. Hopes were flying high, then they proceeded to lose 8 of their next 9. I’m getting my hopes up before the firs tip off just in case they start the season on a terrible streak and I never get to have any high hopes.
Coming in I thought this has the makings of a 45 win team. Still do. Playing GSW 3 times early might be good as well as they are figuring themselves out early with their losses.
The way you should break down the schedule, IMO, is as follows:
Division : 4 teams (16 games)
Conference: 4 game (6 in total) opponents (24 games)
Conference: 3 game opponents (12 games)
Non Conference: 2 game opponents (30 games)
The reason for this is every year you know you play your division 16 times and there will be a number of b2b’s built in. The only NBA team this doesn’t apply to is Portland as they don’t have every team within an hour of their time zone on a b2b in their division. (The league knows this and acts accordingly.)
Of the 4 teams you play 3 times, you play Dallas twice at home, OKC twice on the road, New Orleans twice away, and you play Denver twice at home (and the road game is game 82). No big deal in this regard.
Overall, no complaints on the schedule. It has soft and stronger parts. And I don’t have any trouble seeing the Kings get off to a decent start.
As always we shall see. But I have no trouble seeing a 45 win team if the De’Aaron Fox the Kings have bet on shows up.
I think the Kings have the potential to win 45 games, but it is going to take some help from other teams either via injury or tanking.
I feel the Victor Wembanyama pursuit will be real by many teams in the West. The Spurs are already off to a hot start but will be playing catchup to OKC and Houston in their pursuit. I don’t see how those 3 team beat out the Kings in the standings. Jazz are the dark horse as well, if they move Donovan for future assets, they too will be below the Kings. 4 tanking teams in the West leaves the 10th spot to the Kings or Blazers, in my opinion.
It’s gonna come down to the end and the Kings and Blazers play each other twice in the last 7 games of the season. Will the Blazers still be competing or tanking like last season? The Spurs are also there at the end and then GSW, Denver, and or Dallas may be resting starters.
From all that, I could see the Kings winning quite a bit at the end and get an inflated win total of 45 wins if the half of the West plays along.
You also have the bad teams in the East as well.
To get to 45 wins, you have to beat the bad teams. You have 11 games against Houston, Oklahoma City and San Antonio. Gotta win 9 or 10 of those right? Add another 4 against Detroit and Orlando and I’d say you’d have to win at least 13 of those 15 games. So 13-2 for the bottom tier teams.
Split your games against Denver and Dallas (3 apiece). So 3-3. Win 2 of 3 against New Orleans. That would put you 5-4 against the teams you match up 3 times not named OKC.
Get 6 wins in your division. That’s a 6-10 record.
Don’t get crushed against Memphis and Minnesota. The Kings are capable of beating both those teams. Figure out a way to 3 or 4 of those 8 total matchups. But let’s say 3-5 for the sake of this discussion.
Get 15 wins against the East.
That’s 42 wins as I outlined before I get to Utah or Portland.
But I don’t think this team matches up that badly with that many teams and we really don’t know what a Fox and Sabonis led team is really capable of at this point. We all might learn a certain way on that point, but it comes down to what you think of each guy really.
I don’t think this season will come down to injuries or taking for Victor. It’ll come down to whether or not the Kings made the correct decision building around Fox and Sabonis.
Great points. During the off season I read a bunch of of draft stuff and am thrilled with Keegan, in fact I watched every LVSl game, which is a first for me.
I think I may have listened to almost every pod relating to the Kings. I think Mike Brown is going to be the best coach the Kings have had since Rick Adelman.
But nothing…..brothers and sisters has filled me with as much optimism as Kingsguru21 belief that this team is capable of 45 wins.
Amen!
Happy to provide you a source of optimism, but that’s mostly because I believe in Fox more than others around here. A lot of this has to do with the fact I think the Kings will perform better with Sabonis on the roster from training camp forward.
I think Mike Brown is a quality coach even if he isn’t the guy some think he should be. The fact that he is McNair’s head coach is something I think we should all look at with some sort of optimism. You want your HC and FO on the same page.
There’s upgraded talent. How much? Eh, that’s a matter of opinion. Those who don’t believe won’t believe until they see it. Those who do believe will say “I told you so.” And the truth, as it almost always does, lay somewhere in the middle.
They have spent the last four years building around Fox. Now they have Sabonis as well.
If they don’t choose to build around Fox and Sabonis who do they build around?
Any secrets on the roster?
Let me make a correction. I accidentally double booked Detroit and Orlando W’s into that 42 win calculation so that should be 39 wins. Still, it doesn’t change my point much really. There’s winnable games because this team is better. If the top end talent pairs well together (which is not so much a question mark to me but rather how often top Fox shows up IMO), you have the basis of a .500 team. I think Domas alone does that for you. If you do pair him with scorers that can really score, you might have a team like Indy in his first couple of seasons there that is a 45-50 win caliber of team.
Beyond that, though, you play 2 of the top 3 or 4 teams in the West this year in your division 4 times. You play Dallas and Denver 3 times apiece and 4 of those 6 matchup’s are at home.
This has all the makings of a top 10 offense (possibly top 5 if things go swimmingly well which I’m not predicting) because the Kings not only have 3 point shooting, they have an improved bench on top of that. One of the key elements after the Domas trade that was notable, I thought, was the lack of scoring punch without Fox on the trade when Domas was on the floor. I think the Kings went out and addressed that with Monk in particular as he’s almost perfect as a super sub 6th man scorer. And he’s going to play a lot of minutes either way. Huerter is a valuable jack of all trades master of none type that fits because of the way he plays. He does a lot of things well, and those are all things the Kings need.
The ceiling of this team as constructed, core wise, minus Barnes, is more or less likely to be determined how dynamic and ultimately how high a ceiling Keegan Murray is.
Do we know what Davion Mitchell’s ceiling is? Of all the players on the roster at the end of the season, he’s primed for a jump. There’s a lot to like about him even if he doesn’t fit perfectly into age models and the like.
I expect a starting lineup of Fox, Huerter, Barnes, Murray and Sabonis. A bench of Mitchell, Monk, Davis and Holmes. I’m not sure what happens to that other F spot. I do think the Kings have a lot of interesting options there that could work starting with Trey Lyles and Chimezie Metu.
Beyond that, Chima Moneke is the guy I personally find intriguing out of all the bench/minimum guys they’ve brought in. But, still, I see a 10th man type. But if you can get production out of a player at that type of contract and what not, you’re doing okay.
But when I look at the schedule, I don’t see the doom and gloom others inevitably will. It comes down to how effective Fox is consistently. Really, that’s what this keeps coming back to. Is he the player the Kings have bet on or not?
So one last thing and I’ll leave it at this regarding schedule. Just looking at times the Kings play division opponents on either end of a b2b:
SEGABABA @GSW Oct 23rd (3rd game of the season)
The Warriors have at least a day off for every matchup this season
@Clippers Dec 3rd (front end of a b2b with Chicago the next night)
@ Clippers Feb 24th (SEGABABA). The Clippers have a SEGABABA with the Kings on Mar 3rd after playing Golden State the night prior. This is also the last matchup the Kings have against them.
There are no b2b’s involved for the Kings against the Lakers, but the Lakers are on a SEGABABA for the Jan 7th matchup.
There is one front end of a b2b against the Suns, but that’s on a home b2b with the Suns on end and the Jazz on the other. The Suns, like the Kings, will also be on the front end of a b2b with the Sixers coming to Phoenix for the 2nd half of their b2b.
So there ya go. Winnable games for the Kings. Plenty of them. 45 wins baby, here we come!!!!
We share the same intrigue for Chima. His background story is extremely interesting. And he got better in every league he has been. Really hope he can turn into what GP2 was for the Warriors.
Mitchell has to make a jump. He just has to. He was really bad in transition, scoring 0.88 PPP, which was 13.6 percentile. He was also bad as a spot-up shooter, scoring 0.91 PPP (34.5 percentile).
If Mitchell can improve to score 1 PPP in both transition and spot-up, he is the X factor. Either that or Keegan producing similarly to Evan Mobley or Scottie Barnes last year.
Anyway, 100% agree with your post.
Yep, I’d agree with you on Davion. He was really bad on offense year 1…and frankly is that a huge suprise? Wasn’t to me. But like anything, experience helps. I think an experienced Davion will be better even if it didn’t show up in the last 3rd of the season on the stat sheet.
Davion improves his play off the ball, and on catch and shoot, he’s going to be a lot more valuable this year. And not as a backup to De’Aaron Fox. Davion has the ability, IMO, to pair with any of De’Aaron Fox, Kevin Huerter or Malik Monk (or Terence Davis but I see him as more a SF than SG). That’s valuable.
I’m just hoping he’s a good 10th man for the Kings. If you get GP2, that’s probably the very best outcome for Chima Moneke. I’m not rooting against this, lord knows the Kings could use that. I just will sort of believe that level of value when I see it.
I do like your optimism.
I think there are 3-4 keys. (I know that’s a lot)
I know this is a lot but it is all highly likely. I do share some of your confidence
Each one of these games has an actual third quarter that is a requirement to participate in.
Have the Kings hired someone that recognizes this?
I am perhaps mistaken in my reading of the schedule or the article here, however, it appears that Sacramento begins the season on Wednesday 19 October 2022 at Golden1 against Portland and then again at home against the LA Clippers on Saturday 22 October 2022. They play the next day at the Chase Center against Golden State on Sunday 23 October 2022.
The article may wish to be amended for accuracy.
Tell me which teams get bit by the injury bug this season, and I’ll tell you which teams make the post-season.
So not including NBATV we have all of one national televised games……awesome!
Thats par for the course for us until we start winning. The Lakers on the other hand….
One more than last year
The Kings are infinitely more popular to the (non NBATV watching) national market this year!
When is Haliburton coming back for his standing ovation…circle November 30th on the calendar.
I usually predict 30 wins so I’ll be surprised either way really.
45 Wins?! I have to believe that’s really dreaming. The Kings won’t have the luxury of other teams misfortunes. For example, last year.
if I remember correctly: The Pels, Clips, Blazers, Lakers and Denver all dealt with season long injuries to their star players.
For the entire duration of the season or a large part of it.
The Kings were very healthy. Take away Fox’s late season malady sit down for draft positioning . Oh, by the way, Fox has missed an average of 20 games per season over the last 3.
Kings will be improved. But, it may not show in the standings. 36-38 wins is real. A new coach, a new system, and a healthy Western Conference makes it so. 9-11 seed is where they will fall.
I don’t think Brown will turn Fox into Lebron, Kobe or Curry. So, 15 more wins is that 4th drink talking. I am not sold he’s more than an average coach. That has benefited by 3 of the Top 10 players in. nBA history.
Kings have made some nice additions. Murray looked great in the Summer League.
But, unless Fox and or Sabonis are able to turn the screws against the West elite. This current roster is no better than .500. At Best.
That is unless, Murray puts up Paul George numbers in Year 1.
LeBron, Kobe and whose the 3rd top 10 player Mike Brown has coached? Don’t tell me Steph Curry. He was never the head coach for the Warriors unless you know something I do not.
All of sudden you care about reality.
I don’t think I am going to be able to make it over to Charlotte for the game this year. March 18th in Washington is a possibility though!
I don’t know if the Kings can change the script in one season, after 16 years of futility. Until proven otherwise, I’m having my doubts if the Kings organization can suddenly produce a winning team and culture.
With any luck, maybe the Kings can sniff the play-in, but that’s a stretch, in my opinion. I hope I’m wrong.
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