It happens

[troosvelt]

We have bad days, this was one of them.

Can't have all of that good luck last forever

 

[Andriod_KiNg]

Im putting this loss behind me and i just want the Kings to play agian.. im sure they will take it on the Nets.... poor guys ..

 

[KP]

Do you realize the reserves had 5 assists in the closing minutes??? 3 assists in the 1st, 0 in the 2nd, 0 in the 3rd!! This may be the worst game passing wise I've ever seen the Kings play.

 

[VF21]

It is the worst game as far as assists go in the Sacramento era. The previous low was 9 - and it happened in 1988.

 

[ReinadelosReys]

My over-under was 8. I picked over...:/

 

[SacTownKid]

It is the worst game as far as assists go in the Sacramento era. The previous low was 9 - and it happened in 1988.

This is the saddest day in Sacramento Kings history.

 

[ReinadelosReys]

This is the saddest day in Sacramento Kings history.

Uh....I don't know about that. We have had some very unfortunate events in the Sac Kings history.

 

[Heuge]

This is the saddest day in Sacramento Kings history.

Right

 

[VF21]

The saddest day in Sacramento Kings history? Not by a long shot.

It was a horrible, abysmal game. But that's ALL it was. I can think of at least 5 much worse days that actually involve games and at least one that is so far above all the game sadness that I'm not even going to bring it up.

It was just a loss. A really yucky loss. But just a loss.

 

[VF21]

Just so you know, the saddest day in Sacramento Kings history was Aug. 14, 1989.

 

[Bballkingsrock]

Just so you know, the saddest day in Sacramento Kings history was Aug. 14, 1989.

What happended then?

 

[Heuge]

What happended then?

Is that Ricky Berry?

 

[VF21]

Yes.

 

[VF21]

Ricky Berry played one year with the Kings, his rookie year. He was a guard. He killed himself on Aug. 14, 1989.

 

[bojan_pecanac]

What happened with Rick Barry?

NVM

 

[Bballkingsrock]

Ricky Berry played one year with the Kings, his rookie year. He was a guard. He killed himself on Aug. 14, 1989.

oh........................

 

[VF21]

Ricky Berry - no relation to Rick Barry or his family.

 

[Heuge]

Ricky Berry played one year with the Kings, his rookie year. He was a guard. He killed himself on Aug. 14, 1989.

Without a question the saddest day in franchise history


As a note on Ricky Berry, he was going to be a very solid basketball player.

 

[Bballkingsrock]

Why did Rick kill himself?

 

[SacTownKid]

As far as games are concerned this is bad, but I wasn't really serious when I said it was the saddest day (game wise), who can forget that damn Horry 3. Sorry I shouldn't have brought that up.

 

[VF21]

Why did Rick kill himself?

I don't think there's an answer to that question.

 

[Bibby_Is_Clutch]

Hey... at least it was the spurs we lost too, the best team in the league.

 

[vj9999]

I'm waiting for CruzDude's "Now I'm really worried" thread to pop up

Bad game by a good team. Like piksi said "It happens". Bring on the Nets.

 

[SacTownKid]

Forget the Nets bring on the Spurs!!!

Yeah I know one game at a time.

 

[Gargamel]

Ricky Berry - no relation to Rick Barry or his family.

I didn't think so.

 

[VF21]

A couple of our newer members did.

 

[Gargamel]

I don't think there's an answer to that question.

It's probably safe to assume that he had emotional and/or mental disturbances. Some suicides are triggered by things that most people would consider minor stressors.

Sports Illustrated, Craig Neff, 8/28/89
It's quite possible that if Sacramento Kings guard Ricky Berry hadn't owned a handgun, he might not have committed suicide on Aug. 14. Berry, 24, shot himself with 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol (which he used for target shooting) about two hours after his wife, Valerie, with whom he had been arguing, left their new $370,000 house in Carmichael, Calif., to spend the evening with a friend. Valerie apparently was upset that her husband had invited friends over for pizza and video games without asking her.

No one knows what went through Berry's mind after she left. He wrote a suicide note that, according to one source, said Valerie didn't love him and was taking advantage of him. But none of Berry's friends had noticed any changes in his behavior. He seemed as happy as ever. He was a rising NBA star in the second year of a three-year, $1 million contract. And he was eagerly preparing for training camp, lifting weights to build up his wispy physique.

Berry once described himself as "impulsive." His suicide -- so baffling to those who knew him -- may have been the impulsive act of a suddenly distraught young man with a handgun at his disposal. "Anybody who is a high achiever and wants to become the best at something might blow things out of perspective," says Julie Perlman, executive officer of the American Association of Suicidology in Denver. Clearly, something had happened to Berry that, in Perlman's words, "put him beyond the limits of feeling that he could handle his life anymore."

In the days before his death, Berry put on a basketball camp for underprivileged kids and was honored at the state capitol for his work in the community. "Ricky did more than just teach the kids how to play basketball," says Derrell Roberts, director of the Sacramento Urban League. "He would talk to the kids -- really talk to them -- not just as a basketball player but as a young person who could relate to what they were going through."

 

[Lamar_Odom]

Without a question the saddest day in franchise history


As a note on Ricky Berry, he was going to be a very solid basketball player.

What was his line during his rookie season?

 

[slugking50]

Of course, it's very possible that the Spurs are just superior.

Yes they are but not by that much.

 

[slugking50]

What was his line during his rookie season?

http://www.basketballreference.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=BerryRi01