I will say the documentary reminded me how much i cant stand george maloof
Watched it again. Made me think about people who say, man you guys act like you won the nba finals. Man, you will never understand what basketball here means to us
Truth.
We actually won the NBA Finals when we kept our team. Everything else is gravy. That said, actually winning a title on the court would be just as sweet as the one won off it 10 years ago.
The crazy thing is it was released before Golden One even opened. So it was like this weird moment where everything felt good but somehow it just kept getting worse. I know there were more than a few folks who over the next few years felt like why did it even matter. You can't really tell the full story without revelations about KJ giving way to basketball hell and disillusionment about Vivek. Even The Scores being dismantled for no good reason followed by the Puke Walton era.
The Beam Team can really be the start of the bookend to a period of absolutely misery that the doc only starts to touch. I really love this team top to bottom and there's so many stories with all the guys from Fox & Monk and Fox & Recee and their connections to MB and Luke Loucs and Domas w his family and the connection to the Lakers killer Arvydas Sabonis who fell to the Lakers just before we did.
I hope this team's trajectory leads somewhere great and all the footage used and unused from DITV can be recut into something that tells an even greater story that's still unfolding
There were so many amazing moments that I wish would have made the cut. Incidentally, 10 years ago today was what many of us thought would be the last game in Sacramento. I was in the car with the mayor heading to the game. He kept rolling down the window saying "See you next year" to any Kings staff member in sight. View attachment 11811
What time in the video is that?Marcos Breton using air quotes to describe George Maloof as "the smart one" is easily the best moment in the documentary (aside from seeing all my footage, obviously).View attachment 11809
Wow. Time. Why do you fly so fast?10 years ago today the NBA relocation committee voted to keep the Kings in Sac.