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- Background
- Cotton Fitzsimmons Era
- Competition from Indoor Soccer
- Voices
- In Memoriam
The Kansas City Kings were a middling NBAfranchise that had just four winning seasons during thirteen years in town. The club arrived in 1972 as the relocated Cincinnati Royals. Since Kansas City already had the Royals baseball team, the team re-branded itself as the Kings. At first, the franchise split its time between Kansas City’s Municipal Audi...
The team’s best seasons came during the tenure of head coach Cotton Fitzsimmonsduring the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Fitzsimmons was named the NBA’s Coach-of-the-Year in 1979 as the Kings enjoyed their best season by record (48-34) and won their only division chamionships. The Kings made the playoffs four times in Fitzsimmons’ six seasons betwee...
In the fall of 1981 the Kansas City Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer Leagueset up shop at Kemper Arena. Playing a winter season that mirrored the NBA’s calendar, the Comets walloped the Kings at the box office. During the inaugural season in 1981-82, the Comets averaged 11,508 fans per game at Kemper. The Kings’ average was a paltry 6,644. A Sacra...
“The NBA had an odd numbers of teams. We were confident we could get an expansion team for Sacramento if we went in and turned it around in Kansas City. Then we could flip the Kings. We really made and effort to sell the Kings in Kansas City and we improved it. But not by enough.” – Greg Van Dusen, Senior Vice President 1983-1985 (Interviewed 2018)...
Power forward Bill Robinzine (Kings ’75-’80) took his own life on September 16, 1982 at the age of 29. Owner Leon Karosen (Kings ’73-’83) passed away on May 10, 1990 at age 73. Head Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons (Kings ’78-’84) died of lung cancer on July 24, 2004. Fitzsimmons was 72. New York Times obituary. Center Sam Lacey (Kings ’72-’81) died on Mar...
Omaha is considered much more low key than Kansas City and a lot of people consider that a pro. Except the KC metro is vast and very sprawled. You can live in an extremely low key place that’s only 20 minutes away from downtown.
19 de oct. de 2020 · The Fickle Kings started out as the Rochester Kings in 1945, moved to Cincinnati for the 1957-1958 season, bolted for Kansas City-Omaha in 1972, dropped Omaha in 1975 and then left Kansas City for Sacramento in 1985.
Team moves to Kansas City and becomes the Kansas City - Omaha Kings (since Royals was already used by the area's Major League Baseball team, franchise changes nickname but sticks with...
31 de dic. de 2022 · Live scores from the Kansas City and Omaha DI Men's Basketball game, including box scores, individual and team statistics and play-by-play.
26 de abr. de 2023 · A 1972 Kansas City-Omaha Kings basketball practice featuring Don Kojis, John Mengelt, and Nate Archibald (with ball).
