{"id":330911,"date":"2025-10-25T06:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330911\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:06:20","slug":"sacramento-kings-fans-pack-doco-as-team-hosts-first-pre-game-rally-for-home-opener-at-golden-1-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330911\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings fans pack DOCO as team hosts first pre-game rally for home opener at Golden 1 Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings hosted their first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/kings\/countdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kings Countdown<\/a> rally Friday evening in DOCO to get fans excited for the home opener at the Golden 1 Center, giving one lucky fan the shot to shoot &#8220;the ultimate shot&#8221; for free season tickets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The free event featured giveaways, Kings personalities, music, the drumline, entertainment and the Kings dance team to get the crowd in the mood before the doors to the Golden 1 Center opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Kings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sacramento-kings-home-opener-utah-jazz-domantas-sabonis\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled out a thrilling 105-104 victory over the Utah Jazz<\/a> in front of their first home crowd for the 2025 season, erasing the sting of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/booker-scores-31-suns-overcome-20-point-deficit-to-beat-kings-120-116\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">losing their season opener on the road to the Phoenix Suns<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s get some buckets and let&#8217;s get some wins in,&#8221; said Kings fan Patsy Smith before the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of fans flocked to DOCO hours before the game, ready for the season&#8217;s kickoff in Sacramento. Both new and more seasoned fans stepped out in style on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do I think about the Kings? I want &#8217;em all to come home and live with me,&#8221; fan Patti Anderson said with a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anderson has been a Kings season ticket holder since the team&#8217;s first year in Sacramento. She&#8217;s holding out hope for a good season.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not giving up faith. I&#8217;m gonna stay above ground till they do well,&#8221; Anderson joked. &#8220;They just better get good, &#8217;cause I am sticking around.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Some fans came Friday ready to crown the former NBA MVP, Russell Westbrook, as the newest king.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that veteran presence is gonna be good for the younger players like Clifford, Ellis. He&#8217;s gonna help elevate them,&#8221; said one Kings fan in a Westbrook Oklahoma Thunder jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for DOCO businesses, they are ready for the boom that basketball brings after the slower summer season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got a little help from the A&#8217;s, the summer is the off-season for us. This is the busiest time by far,&#8221; said Wil Gonzalez, operating partner of Tom&#8217;s Watch Bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While season expectations for some may be low, this season&#8217;s hype is full of hope.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will be highs and lows, but at the end we are gonna ball out this season,&#8221; said Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings hosted their first-ever Kings Countdown rally Friday evening in DOCO to get fans excited for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[164202,164201,1260,3143,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-330911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-downtown-sacramento","9":"tag-golden-1-center","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento-kings","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115433307122534215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}