Small Market, Big Heart is the name of our first feature length documentary about the Sacramento Kings and the community's fight to keep the team from moving.
Wowzer what a story 🥹 love the passion & heart from everyone involved fighting for a sports team showing what team truly stands for outside the sporting event. Thank you for sharing with us 😃 Basketball fan from 🇬🇧
What a beautiful documentary - a reminder of how special the fans in Sacramento are, and how special the bond between the city of Sacramento and the Kings is! Thank you!
@@JusticeforAllandOnethanks for reaching out to me, but I’m not really interested in expanding the audience. Happy to let it reside on RU-vid as a piece of history. I figure those who find it will enjoy it.
@@marleywockystudios certainly, will continue to spread the word of your good work, thanks again for your time and effort in preserving and documenting this history
It's the 2023 season and we're winning ! Mid season so far . 7 over 500 just after the all star break.. We're 3rd in the West !!! It paid off guys!!!! We won as a city 💜 This is why we built the Golden 1 Center !!!!
Just wait until you get to a Finals. If you watched the Bucks in the Finals back in 21, and how packed the "Deer District" was, it was incredible to experience, and local businesses benefited too. I heard the local businesses around Fiserv Forum reported an additional profit of $70-90 million during that Finals run. It would be awesome to see Sac experience the same thing.
Just finished the documentary and it did nothing but increasing the love and passion I have for the Sacramento Kings and its community. Love from Barcelona, Spain kings nation💜
Very bad comparison. Sacramento has a population of just over 500,000, Green Bay's is just over 100,000. Yes, the Packers' fan base encompasses the entire state, but Green Bay will always be American pro sports' smallest market.
This is documentary is very well done like Sonicsgate. I'm glad Sacramento got the new arena in downtown Sacramento. I hope the Sonics can get an expansion team in the next few years with the new arena.
Man I was on edge for those few years when they were going to relocate. no city in the history of sports when a city was going to loose there team did a city fight to keep it's team the way Sacramento did to keep the King's ! STRAIGHT UP !!
I am the little kid with the lion hat. I grew up going to the games and my dad worked there but i knew if they did not leave arco they would not have stayed here. i still get emotional and will always miss the memories that i had there
The Clippers should move to Seattle. 90% of basketball fans in Los Angeles are Laker fans. The Clippers have 0 championships, 0 finals appearances, 0 Western conference finals appearances, 0 retired numbers, no history to be proud of, and the owner is FROM Seattle. LA has it’s team, 16 championships, 31 Finals appearances, legendary players, tons of retired numbers and memories and history to be proud of. Make the Clippers into the Sonics.
Fark!!! Clay Bennett who sold out the Sonics was a NBA official who would assess the Kings relocation to Anaheim after he lied to the Seattle public and refuted any claims to relocate the Sonics to Oklahoma City, seriously? If I was a die hard Kings fan, I reckon I would have been shitting myself that the the team was leaving.
This is so inspirational and I’m not a Kings fan. That being said I wonder how much what had happened to the Seattle SuperSonics had an impact?!? Save Our Sonics and Bring Our Sonics Back!
The difference I see here is that Sacramento fought so much harder to keep the Kings, plus there was a much more collective involvement from the city leaders. Seattle and Washington's governments, as well as the Sonics fans; all three groups were really not in tandem and were even adversarial to one another, and Bennett took advantage of that.
Seattle had every opportunity to keep the Sonics and they blew it; the fans didn't seriously rally until it was too late, the state government wanted nothing to do with it, and the city leadership cowered away. Sacramento had a much more coordinated and organized effort and you saw the result.
Just so you know Carmichael Dave. I had no idea who you were before I seen this video a few years ago. I’d like to think I’m the no1 Kings fan, but you’re the real no1 Kings fan!
Not quite as dramatic, but I remember, in May and June 2016, how it seemed like the Bucks not getting a new arena was a strong possibility. We were fortunate that we not only got a competitive team to show the city, but got great support from the businesses in Milwaukee, vocal support from Bo Ryan and Barry Alvarez in Madison, and I even remember Donald driver tweeting the Bucks asking about possible season tickets. I love what we have now with the Fiserv Forum. It's beautiful, and there's so much going on around there now.
Now we have one of the best Arenas in the league, a great young core, great coach, and a team that has a real shot at the playoffs .. #SacramentoProud🙏 👑 🏀
It's going to be tough for a few years, with the West so stacked RN, but I hope to keep hearing noise from the Kings until the Warriors, Clippers, and Lakers go on their inevitable slide, and then the West can be yours. From Bucks Nation, best to you!
@@joesakic91 Thanks! It was such a fun ride, watching the games in the Deer District and seeing downtown MKE being active again. This was part of what was envisioned when Fiserv Forum was built and it was successful enough during the playoffs that other teams were asking the Bucks about how the Deer District and the plaza in front of Fiserv Forum worked. It's really amazing seeing Milwaukee be revitalized by the Bucks' success. Hopefully Sacramento gets theirs too! They deserve this kind of moment too.
@@Tyrunner0097 It's still going to be a challenge for the Sacramento Kings to achieve the same success the Bucks had and it starts with ownership leading the way and it's up to the team to install mental and emotional toughness to keep playing basketball through every call to win. The Milwaukee Bucks had the odds stacked against them especially when the Greek Freak and company took on KD, James Harden, and the Brooklyn Nets in Round 2, but they kept hooping and won a Game 7 over the Nets en route to a title.
@@joesakic91 I think the Bucks' failures in 2019 against Toronto and in the Bubble in 2020 helped instill the mental toughness the Bucks had in 2021. That's why they didn't panic or fold when down 0-2 to Brooklyn and Phoenix. Also, a side note, the city of Milwaukee is saying the Bucks' championship run and the viewing parties in the Deer District brought in at least $24 million of extra revenue to the city. At least part of our investment in building Fiserv Forum has been paid off thanks to this.
+Ungar To The Max Once Seattle upgrades KeyArena and the NHL finalize their expansion deal, the NBA team will come with it within a few years down the road.
27:22. My Elementary PE teacher!😂 he was the biggest Kings fan! His parking space was purple with a number on it with his last name like a Jersey. And in his closet he had photos of him and his wife at dinner with kings players. I never thought he would be in this. Thats crazy. Havent seen him since elementary school.
Congratulations to the city of Sacramento on putting in the effort to keep the Kings in the city of Sacramento. However, I do wish that Seattle had an NBA team again. Also, I added this to my Seattle Sonics RU-vid playlist, is that alright with you?
Pretty great story about the Kings staying in Sacramento. Kind of similar to how Milwaukee and Wisconsin rallied to keep the Bucks, though not as dramatic as this. We did rally here in Milwaukee, though. Just like Sac fans did "Here We Stay" and "Here We Build", Bucks fans had a similar rallying cry, called "Build The Future", based on the Bucks slogan "Own The Future". Now, Sacramento has a new arena to keep the Kings, and Milwaukee is building their new arena right now for the Bucks. And let me say, it looks gorgeous so far. Update: The Fiserv Forum is such a great place to watch a game. I've enjoyed the two games I've been there.
Can't watch without cryin a lil... Sac Town born n' raised. We were cheated out of a championship, lied to by the Maloofs, and almost lost our one and only beloved team. We now have a stadium- in the heart of downtown Sacramento!!! No more demarcus cousins, a great core of young ballers, Divac is our G.M., and hopefully within the next couple years we will have the #1 pick in the draft... GO KINGS!!!!!!!! fan4life!
The Kings were very competitive last year. It's going to be difficult for the next few years, with the West so stacked, but I can see the Kings becoming a force to be reckoned with by 2025 at the latest. Hang in there, Sac. You're in the same situation as the Bucks were 2-3 years ago in terms of competitiveness.
