Hello, and welcome to the Kings Herald, the newest site dedicated to all things Sacramento Kings. You may know many of us from our former digs at Sactown Royalty where we spent most of the last decade covering everything from Kenny Natt, 20-5-5, Here We Stay, and so much more. We hope that here at the Kings Herald we can continue to provide the same great coverage for many years to come.
It's definitely a crazy time to be launching a sports blog, especially given the fact that there are no sports or much of anything else going on right now as the world faces a once-in-a-generation type of crisis. However, one of the great things about our former site that we want to continue here was the sense of community and we want to get a head start on rebuilding that same feeling. It's also why our first initiative will be to help raise money for the Sacramento Food Bank and also to help provide some support for local business through free advertising. Find out more about our Covid-19 initiative here.
Another thing I want to make clear: The Kings Herald will never be behind a paywall. While we don't have the backing of a billion dollar company and we are launching a Patreon for those of you who wish to support us financially, you will not need to send us any money in order to access our content. We want this to be a place where any Kings fan can come in and talk about their favorite team or check out the latest news.
As for the site itself, please feel free to send feedback to [email protected] if you run into any bugs or just have some suggestions. We might not be able to do certain things that were available on the old site, but we worked hard to make sure certain areas like the comment section are robust and functional and hope to bring additional features and upgrades in the coming months.
Without the passion of the Sacramento Kings fanbase, this site wouldn't be possible.
From all of us here at the Kings Herald, Thank you, and Welcome!
Congratulations on the new site. It looks great and I couldn’t be happier to support you.
How in the world did you manage to comment 15 hours before this site went live??
The great mystery of our age. We truly do not have any idea.
I signed up for the RSS feed, you should see some of the test comments that were up…
Wheres this RSS feed sign up you speak of time traveler?
So here it the short story of how I ended up getting on before the official opening. A week or so ago I was using the Feedly app for reading news on my phone. There was just tons of backlogged STR articles that I have been actively avoiding so I decided to delete STR from my account and thought I’ll just add TKH while I am at it so I can know when the first articles are available. When I checked the TKH feed it was just a bunch of lorem ipsem articles with various test comments from all the familiar names. After a few more days real articles started to post, and I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can sign up for an account to comment?” So I followed links until I figured out how to sign up for an account, all the time thinking, “No way they are going to allow me to sign up before it opens.” But it worked, so I pushed my luck more and tried to comment on a few articles. Thinking, “Well this is gonna either be really funny to comment before the site is live or really funny to be banned before the site is live.” So that is how I snuck around the site before most people were able to get passed the front page.
Coronavirus-shmonavirus.
I’ll be telling my grand kids about that time Jasonrp managed to quietly sneak into Kings Herald before it officially launched.
hax0rz
JASON RP REVEAL YOURSELF
Looks nice in here! Congrats on the new site
Yes! So stoked about this, not just for us, but for all the writers that have put so much time and effort into building something to get it ripped from them. Congrats!
WOOHOO! So glad this is happening! Thank you to all of the contributors from bringing back our fan run community!
Congrats all on the new site and the new look!
Now let’s all watch as TKH’s servers go melty-melty down.
That took… no time at all to do.
Because I’m a total geek, I would love to see a post on how the site was put together. What host was chosen, servers, SW, etc.. Going to take a little while to get used to a non-SB nation message format.
AWS 4 vCPUs 8gb RAM with CloudFlare CDN and you guys are still melting the server!
What is this? A “AWS 4 vCPUs 8gb RAM with CloudFlare CDN” for ants?!
AWS = Amazon Web Services
4 vCPUs 8gb RAM = 4 virtual computers
CloudFlare CDN = the content delivery network
…and then Terminix for the ants
Nobody likes a know it all, man.
Yay! Welcome back, everyone. 🙂
Way to go guys, congrats to you all!!
Sacramento radio legend Big Jim Hall? Or just another Jim Hall? 🙁
Yesssssssssssss!
Cheers to the new launch. Excited to continue this tumultuous journey of being a Kings fan with familiar faces in tow.
Congrats on the new site fellas! Good luck to everyone involved. Lets hope we have bit more success to talk about this go around.
Awesome! Welcome back!
LET’S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Helloooooooooooo and welcome back everyone!!!
I hope you all are staying safe and getting through this time of quarantine. I’m just so happy to be able to talk to you guys again everyday, especially during this shelter-in-place.
Thank you Akis, Greg, and the rest of the old STR crew for all your work getting this website up. I look forward to reading articles and interacting with you all again.
Also, fuck Vox!
I try to post comments but fail every time! Wait, it worked! I am in!
The Kings Heralda new beginning
And with joy, my head is now spinning.
For Kings fans a new site,
A great place for respite
From our team’s bad habitnot winning!
I just come here to say that the new STR site is so much better now, you guys suck !
It’s forbidden to downvote the first sarcastic post.
I don’t do sarcasm font, figure it out, like said a wise man.
Bienvenue!
I don’t know who that wise guy was, but I bet he was being sarcastic.
Believe me or not, he had the same nickname than yours!
This is awesome!
Man am I glad they got rid of that Greg dude too! Oh … wait … 😉
Missed you guys too
Greg ruined my quarantine!
Is that a bad thing?
And 1. As a side note is there a way to tell which replies are new an which ones have already been read? Or is that feature still TBD?
You must not follow him on Twitter….
Yay finally!!!!
Right on!!!! Can’t wait to take a deeper dive into the draft board.
I appreciate you!
Is this the dance thread?
Great job, guys and gals – thanks for putting this together! Logged out of SBNation completely, don’t plan on checking back.
I logged out a few days after March 20 and never logged back in!
I still have other blogs that are on SB Nation so I’ll check back in every once in a while.
The Sharks site is a site I still use regularly, but I don’t see much of a reason to check out StR anymore.
Yeah, that place is dead.
Congrats all! Looks great!
Congrats on the new site! Looks great. I am very happy to join. I have been following you guys and reading daily Kings news from Sactown Royalty for the past 5 years or so. Enjoy all your guys content and all the input in the comments section. Have been a loyal Kings fan for about 25 years now. Looking forward to the future of this site. Thanks again.
Awwww yeaaaaaaa. KH > STR.
What’s up everyone?!? Congrats to the team that made this possible … Go Kings!
Love the new site! Speaking of no sports going on, COVID is just a global hoax…
to allow the KH team more time to get the site up and running without missing Kings action!
Woohoo! Congratulations. And welcome back ladies and gents. Happy for a new site for Kings fans!
Fun fact: due to a bug Akis is currently getting an email for every one of your comments on this post. I sure hope nobody abuses that ‘feature’
I’m just posting so when a bunch of Yahoo accounts are allowed to join I can say the site has gone downhill since the good ol’ days when I was posting
Congrats!
On small step for Kings fans, one giant leap for Kings fans learning server maintenance.
Hi guys,
This is Edu from Barcelona (Catalonia). I have been following the kings since 2002 and seen all games since NBA game pass launched internationally.
I did follow STR since James Ham years (never written before because I was afraid my english would keep away people from reading) however today I have decided to register and write only to say the following:
When STR went down (when they put all those lakers fans) I felt I had lost an important community and I have been looking forward to kingsherald since then. Now that I have felt what this community means I will try to be more collaborative.
Long life to the kings, long life to Kings Herald!
Forever Purple!
Welcome back to Basketball Hell!
Your English is fine. No worries. Welcome aboard!
Your english is perfectly fine. Welcome!
Welcome to TKH! Your English is fine.
Glad to meet you Edu!
It’s amazing to hear about fans from Barcelona, excited to hear your insights and especially about any players from the Euro League whom you may watch that will potentially get drafted.
I am joining you too, as I’m also creating an account for the first time.
I live down in San Diego
Tired of hearing lakers talk from all of my friends -__- lol
Welcome aboard!
I wish I could double rec this
Looking forward to it!
LMAO, only 30 minutes in to this site going live and we already had to make TKH upgrade their servers because of the traffic.
I love you guys.
The site looks great! Are all the writers from SR here?
We’re all back!
Guess my change.org petition to remove Brad from the staff didn’t hold up
Site looks great! Good to see it up.
I noticed you can de-rec now. Interesting addition …
😡 which one of you fuckers thought it would be “funny” to steal the username “RORDOG” from me?
The real Mike Bratz?
lol hmm…..??
LOL!
So it’s RORDOG and the two sets of numbers that most make teenage boys giggle?
If you think for a moment that I’d ever steal the username of a guy famous for talking about which hotdogs out of which asscrack tastes the best at some god forsaken hour and why this is a viable college major, you are badly mistaken.
Nate, you had me at hot dog.
Everyone will be happy to know that I decided to start making “QUARDOGs”. I got one of those big ol tin cans of nacho cheese, a jar of peños, and enough dried beans to make gallons of chili. Not as good as the AMPM version, but but have to play the hand we’re dealt.
You make Spilly look like an amateur, my goodness….
YES! Congratulations on the new site.
Hi Deuce! Hope to hear more podcasts in the future! I enjoyed your recent “Ask Us Anything” episode.
Appreciate you!
Yes!!! Went with a new u/n here – was previously #12Pick…who? at StR, but given that Jason Thompson has been gone for half a decade, I figured an upgrade was needed.
Lookin forward to the excellent content you all provide!!
Congratulations! Looking forward to disagreeing with everyone, having writers ruin my marriage, being told how to fan, memes about players wearing hats, and much much more all in a pants optional environment. I MISSED YOU ALL, EVEN THOSE OF YOU I HATE!
I feel personally attacked. 😉
Very excited! Longtime SacTown Royalty lurker, never commented. Figure today is as good of a day as any to join the threads. The new site looks great — can’t wait till we have some actual basketball to go along with it.
Welcome to TKH!
I am very excited for the team behind this, even Brad. With this much talent, and such an established community, I can’t imagine this won’t be very successful.
Congratulations Herald staff, and it will be nice to see the commenters and community again. I hope everyone is happy and healthy.
Only 53 comments. Must have been a win.
Seriously, congrats on the new site everone
This is the most notable thing that has happened for about a month for me. I’m so happy it is back. Great to see all the names back as well. I hope everyone is doing well.
Awe geez, I’m already getting looney about the draft…
Longtime lurker on STR, excited to welcome the crew/community back! Especially proud to see the Sac Food Bank support. It’s all a new normal whether it be SIP guidelines or a sports blog without sports! So happy the crew did this.
Great to have you back. Nice to have something fun to read . I will read every time I awake from my 5 daily naps.
Excited to explore the new site, perfect quarantine activity!
Tremendous, just tremendous. It’s the grand opening and the shelves are full. Nice work.
This site looks cool. I am really hoping to read about the Kings. I like the Kings. The Kings are my favorite basketball team.
Well do we have some good news for you John…
Wait, so this is not the new site for the Sacramento Chapter of the Renaissance fair?
You must be one of the new writers for StR!
Happy to change my username. I used to have Greg in the title (no, not that Greg. At the site not to be named, I went by gregsactly). The other Greg ruined my SN, like he did for so many other things, so here I am, reborn (again, like so many other things.)
Today, I am grateful for this community.
Woohoo!
Great job, TKH!
Hi everyone, I hope you are all healthy and doing okay, under the circumstances.
I missed you all. I missed this.
Rik!
So – Even with all your Euro stuff, NFL draft is still the only sports thing happening this week. Who are the Browns taking? I have many friends from high school who are still Browns fans to torment…
Hi there, BD! How are you?
The main idea is that the Browns take one of the LT prospects (Wirfs, Thomas, Wills, Becton), or, if he happens to fall to them, Isaiah Simmons.
What will the Bills do, you think?
I missed you so much it hurt sometimes.
L-train, it is truly a pleasure to see you and many others again! STR was my main social distancing outlet, and I was robbed from it just when social distancing became THE thing.
What’s up?