Sacramento Kings Logo — Sacramento Kings is a team of basketball of the NBA based in Sacramento, California. The franchise was founded in 1945 under the name of Rochester Royals, later moving to the cities of Cincinnati and Kansas City / Omaha before moving in 1985 to Sacramento. The Kings dispute their home games at the ARCO Arena from 1988, although it plans to build a new pavilion. The successes throughout its history have been the championships of the NBL in 1946 and 1947, and in 1951 the NBA (and Royals). They also have five division titles and one conference.
The franchise began its activity located in Rochester (New York), with the name of Rochester Royals and playing in the NBL. The Royals had that nickname because of the whiskey Crown Royal, since before becoming a professional team were patronicados by Crown Royal. After that, the set became known as Rochester Pros, being changed back to Royals entered the NBL. More