Thank you for identifying for us so clearly why you don't get it. The national media will only pay attention to the Kings when the Kings do something worth noting. For a lot of the national media, they just go with the usual '10 years of incompetence from this lousy team' theme. The 'my team may be bad but at least they're better than the Kings' story is a very popular one in the sports world, and then of course there are those who are just looking for something to ridicule.
The fact is that anything that happened while the Maloofs owned the team is completely irrelevant. They ran out of money and tried to run the team on the cheap, and we all saw how well that didn't go. Then, it took the new owner a while to learn to stand back and let the basketball people run that part of the business. It looks to many of us like there's real cause for optimism now. They certainly have a lot to prove, but it looks they're beginning to get it right.
Most of the people in the public opinion you're citing base their knowledge of the Kings on the national story, so they don't know what's going on NOW. Thus, their opinion is uninformed and completely irrelevant. The majority of the people at draft night booed when the Kings chose Peja. Do you remember who they wanted the Kings to draft instead? Believe it or not, the Kings staff knew more than the general public. At one time most people thought the earth was flat -- did that make them right?
So the fact that a majority wanted the Kings to take Doncic is completely irrelevant. I've said before that if it were up to me, I would have chosen Doncic. The difference is that I'm willing to admit that the Kings staff might know more than I do, and wait and see how things develop. Anyone who thinks the 'who's better, Doncic or Bagley' question has already been decided doesn't know enough about basketball to contribute anything useful to this forum.
So we're left with the fact that you keep making the same argument over and over again, and you're claiming a whole horde of people supporting your position. Maybe on realgm but not here. And if you think people on realgm know more about the Kings, why are you here? If you don't have anything new to say, why waste our time? You're not convincing anyone.