The Sacramento Kings have been a feel-good story of the NBA season. Instead of being the perennial basement dwellers that everyone expected them to be, the Kings are sitting at a respectable .500 on December 4th. When we looked at the schedule at the start of the season, some were wondering if the Kings would have even 5 wins by this point in the year. The performance has exceeded all expectations.
And yet the performance is even more impressive than we may have realized. With a tip of the cap to Kings Reddit, the Kings have had the second hardest schedule in the NBA so far according to ESPN’s strength of schedule data.