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Kings vs. Thunder Preview: The Kings’ time at Sleep Train draws to a close

By | 0 Comments | Mar 6, 2019

Saturday's game starts at 7:30pm PST, can be seen at Sleep Train Arena, or on CSN-CA and can be heard on KHTK 1140. Let's talk about the final game at Sleep Train.

Only One Reason to Watch:

In the coming months, word will begin to get out about the Golden 1 Center. Chris Granger and the powers that be will slowly open the floodgates for those who want to tour the arena they've seen grow in the middle of downtown Sacramento, and when that time comes, no one will be able to shut up about it. Like every other summer, there will be player and personnel turnover and regardless of the opinions that the fanbase may have on said maneuvering, the schedule will be released, training camp will come and go and the season will start. At the Golden 1 Center. In downtown Sacramento. There are no more lawsuits to worry about, no environmental impact reports, or possible relocation scenarios. There are no ownership changes to sweat, no maloofery to be had. This fall, all that will be left to worry about is the product on the court and why the arena's wifi is only seventeen thousand times faster than your internet at home, and not nineteen thousand times faster.

But that, that is this fall.

This was the home to a fanbase, unparalleled.

In victory and in defeat, en route to the Finals or to Anaheim, Seattle and the like, Arco Arena, Power Balance Pavillion, Sleep Train Arena was the gathering place for a city of men, women and children unwilling to let go of the first thing that brought them together. The old barn out in Natomas has been home to a family clad in purple and ready to protest, ready to mobilize, ready to claw to the bitter end for a chance to prove the NBA was worthy of us, and now at the closing of a season and at the of an era, the city that was never ready to say good-bye, can celebrate knowing that for as far as the future can be seen, it won't ever have to be good-bye, only "See you next season!".

Good-bye, Sleep Train Arena. Thanks for the memories.

Prediction: A game will played, a team will win and none of it will really be the focus of what people remembered about the night. But, for the sake of continuity; Kings win 115-111.

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