On April 15, 2015, the Sacramento Kings punctuated its turbulent 2014-15 NBA regular season, beating the Los Angeles Lakers in Staples Center, by a score of 122 to 99.
From that game, the team’s starting point guard, Ray McCallum, is gone–traded to San Antonio in early July. From that game, starting center Jason Thompson, starting power forward Carl Landry and starting shooting guard Nik Stauskas, too, are gone–all dealt to Philadelphia in a payroll-cutting, asset-sacrificing salary dump that afforded newly-appointed VP of Basketball Operations Vlade Divac the funds to attain much-needed free agent reinforcements.