Sacramento Kings: 250-1

The Sacramento Kings are tired of being a doormat from the West, and the organization's most powerful figures are laying down strong rhetoric to this effect all offseason. "This season, let us be clear, it is about wins and losses," owner Vivek Ranadive told Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee. General Manager Pete D'Alessandro advised Jones:"We are not trying to be patient , we're not. We want to win more, we wish to be more exciting." Kudos to the Kings for planning high, for trying to reward a loyal fanbase by simply changing the culture. But prioritizing wins with a roster that simply isn't cut out to collect many of them may be a mistake. It is dangerous to change into short-term success manner too early; it can cut out the legs from a rebuilding process in a means that is occasionally unfixable. Sacramento will begin Darren Collison, Ben McLemore, Rudy Gay, Jason Thompson and DeMarcus Cousins, which seems intriguing on paper. However, when you understand that the Kings' most often used five-man unit annually featured these very same players together with all the departed Isaiah Thomas at point guard rather than Collison and that stated unit handled a net rating of minus-5.0 points per 100 possessions, per NBA.com, it is hard to see where the impression that this team can win comes from. Maybe it's the improvements of Ramon Sessions, Omri Casspi and newcomer Nik Stauskas. Perhaps it's faith in Cousins' continuing improvement. Who knows? This is a long method of saying that if the powers that be in Sacramento believe this team has a shot to do anything, the cold truth of name chances at 250-1 is a far more accurate assessment. Not this year, Kings. Read more: los angeles clippers odds