Kings season by the numbers
Sacramento finished the season with just 22 wins and, strikingly, recorded zero 20‑point victories all year — a stat media say defines how rarely the team ever dominated opponents. Social posts tied season‑ending injuries to roster shifts and to coach Jimmy Alapag’s exit after five seasons. (si.com) (x.com)
Sacramento closed 2025-26 at 22-60, and the Kings were the only National Basketball Association team that never won a game by 20 points or more. (si.com) That 22-60 finish left Sacramento tied with Utah for the league’s fourth-worst record, according to Sports Illustrated’s Kings site. The same report said the team is now waiting for the May 10 draft lottery. (si.com) The season followed a year of upheaval. NBA.com said Sacramento fired coach Mike Brown in December 2024, traded De’Aaron Fox to San Antonio in February 2025, missed the playoffs, and then hired Scott Perry as general manager before removing Doug Christie’s interim tag. (nba.com) Christie’s permanent hire came after he went 27-24 as interim coach in 2024-25 and guided Sacramento into the SoFi Play-In Tournament, where the Kings lost to Dallas. NBA.com said Perry kept Christie to try to bring stability to a franchise that has had five lead executives and nine head coaches, including interim coaches, since Vivek Ranadivé took over in 2013. (nba.com) The roster looked different by the end of 2025-26. ESPN’s team stats page listed DeMar DeRozan as the Kings’ leading scorer at 18.4 points per game, Russell Westbrook as the assists leader at 6.7, and Maxime Raynaud as the rebounds leader at 7.5. (espn.com) ESPN’s page also showed a note on midseason trades involving Dennis Schröder, De’Andre Hunter, Keon Ellis and Patrick Baldwin Jr., another sign of how much the roster shifted during the year. Sacramento finished with 111.0 points per game and shot 34.0% from 3-point range, according to that page. (espn.com) Jimmy Alapag’s departure added another change after the season ended. Tempo reported on April 18, 2026, that the Kings parted ways with Alapag after five years as player development coach and linked the move to the injuries that hit Sacramento during the season. (tempo.mb.com.ph) The zero 20-point wins statistic stood out because it captured the shape of the whole season: Sacramento did not just lose often, it rarely controlled games from start to finish. After 82 games, the numbers left the Kings headed to the lottery instead of the postseason again. (si.com)
