by RobHessing | Aug 8, 2026 | Articles, Just Wait ’til Next Year
(Welcome back to our summer series – Just Wait Til’ Next Year! We last left off in 1996. Catch up here.) 1997. After averaging 55 wins a season over the prior seven seasons, the San Antonio Spurs followed David Robinson’s injury into the tank, and they hired Gregg...
by RobHessing | Sep 28, 2025 | Articles, Just Wait ’til Next Year
(Welcome back to our off-season series, “Just Wait ‘til Next Year!” in which special guest Jerry Reynolds and I bring you our 147 combined years to bring you our recollections of past Kings years.) If you weren’t around and/or a Kings fan in 1996, you won’t believe me...
by RobHessing | Sep 22, 2025 | Articles
(Welcome back to our off-season series, “Just Wait ‘til Next Year!” in which special guest Jerry Reynolds and I bring you our 147 combined years to bring you our recollections of past Kings years.) The world population was over 5.6 billion people in 1995, none of whom...
by RobHessing | Sep 13, 2025 | Articles, Just Wait ’til Next Year
(Welcome back to our off-season series, “Just Wait ‘til Next Year!” in which special guest Jerry Reynolds and I bring you our 147 combined years to bring you our recollections of past Kings years.) On June 17, 1994, O.J. Simpson and Al Cowlings led the LAPD on a low...
by RobHessing | Aug 28, 2025 | Articles
In 1993, the Chicago Bulls won their third straight NBA championship. I moved to Chicago that April to find my fortune on the options market (spoiler alert – I’ve been back in Sacramento for 30 years), and I witnessed the glory that was playoff and championship NBA...
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