Sacramento Kings Betting Promotions and Bonuses
Outside of the early 2000s, the Sacramento Kings have largely been perennial NBA rebuilders that have struggled to win since moving to California in 1985. But the team has a large fan base and is starting to turn it around, achieving a winning record and reaching the play-in tournament last year. Here’s a guide to betting on the Sacramento Kings in 2024-24, including information about current options in CA and the bonuses and promos that are available.
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How to bet on Kings games in California
Right now sports betting in California continues to be a topic of debate among lawmakers, the CA tribes, and other interested parties. Betting on NBA games at regulated online sportsbooks is convenient for those in states that have them. While you can’t bet real money at online sportsbooks in CA right now, you do have an option with social sportsbooks that use virtual currencies but that also offer chances to redeem winnings for cash prizes.
For example, Fliff Sportsbook is a social sportsbook where you can wager on games using Fliff Coins and Fliff Cash. No purchase is necessary, although you can buy Fliff Coins and get Fliff Cash as a bonus. Accumulate enough Fliff Cash through these bonuses and your wagering, and you can redeem it for cash prizes.
Right now, Fliff has a welcome offer for new sign-ups on the site. First off, you get some free Fliff Coins and Fliff Cash right away just for creating an account. You also are eligible for a 100% match of your first purchase on the site, which can be worth up to 600,000 in Fliff Coins plus a bonus of up to $100 in Fliff Cash.
Fliff runs other promos as well on a regular basis, including daily login bonuses as well as bonuses you can claim every few hours, too. There are lots of boosted odds offers, including occasional superboosts that are essentially freebies (e.g., bet on a player or team to score at least one point in a game that night). You’ll find other promotions like referral bonuses and more at Fliff Sportsbook.
Note that like regular online sportsbooks such as DraftKings and FanDuel, Fliff has its own sportsbook app you can download to your phone or tablet. The app is available for both Android and Apple devices.
How to read Kings game lines
Sportsbooks all list different wagering opportunities in similar ways. When it comes to NBA betting, you’ll find the sites always start out listing the most popular bet types, moneyline, spread, and totals bets. Here’s an example of how those bet types might appear for an upcoming game between the Kings and the Los Angeles Lakers:
| Lakers/Kings Lines | Moneyline | Spread | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Lakers | -180 | -7.5 (-110) | Over 215.5 (-110) |
| Sacramento Kings | +160 | +7.5 (-110) | Under 215.5 (-110) |
In this set of Lakers-Kings lines, the Kings are +160 moneyline underdogs. That means if you bet on the Kings and they win, you’ll win $160, plus your bet back, for every $100 you bet. The Lakers, meanwhile, are -180 moneyline favorites, which means if you bet on the Lakers and they win, you’ll win $100, plus your bet back, for every $180 you bet.
The Kings are also 7.5-point underdogs on the spread. That means spread bets on Sacramento need the team to win or lose by fewer than eight points. If the Lakers win by eight points or more, that means spread bets on LA will win. Either way, at -110 odds, winning bets will pay $100 for every $110 that you bet, plus your bet back.
Finally, you can see the “over/under” line set at 215.5 total points. This is inviting you to bet on the total combined score of the game, regardless of which team wins. If you bet over 215.5, you win if the two teams combine for 216 points or more. If that doesn’t happen, under bettors win.
Live betting on the Sacramento Kings
Live betting is another fun option available at online sportsbooks, letting you place wagers on games after they have already tipped off. You can usually make all the same bets that were available pregame, such as on the moneyline, the point spread, or the total, with the odds changing in response to how the game is going. You can also keep betting on player props and in other ways.
Like regular online sportsbooks, Fliff Sportsbook and other social sportsbooks also offer live betting.
Kings futures odds
Futures bets are wagers on outcomes that will not be decided until a future date. One popular Kings futures bet is to bet over or under a line on the team’s total regular season wins. Heading into 2024-25, most sportsbooks had the Kings’ win total set at around 46.5 wins, meaning the expectation was for them to win just about as many games as they did last year when they went 46-36.
Other season-long futures on things like Sacramento winning the NBA title, or even making the playoffs, will have longer odds. At the start of the 2023-24 season, most sites had the Kings at around +3500 to win the NBA title, meaning they were very much a longshot. The Kings did have a decent year, going 46-36 and knocking the Golden State Warriors out of the play-in tournament. But they fell in the first round and were clearly not quite ready to contend for the franchise’s first NBA title since 1951 when they were the Rochester Royals.
For the start of the 2024-25 season, most sites had the Kings at around -170 or -180 to make the playoffs again, making them a favorite to get back to the postseason. Meanwhile, the Kings’ NBA title chances were set at even longer odds than last year at about +7500 in most places. Of course, those odds will change as the year progresses, getting shorter if the Kings look strong or becoming even longer if they don’t do well.
Sacramento Kings home games
- Arena: Golden 1 Center
- Since: 2016
- Address: 500 David J. Stern Walk, Sacramento, California
- Owner: City of Sacramento
- Operator: Sacramento Kings
- Basketball capacity: 17,608
- Construction cost: $558.2 million
- Previous home: ARCO Arena (1998-2016)
Kings broadcasts
Kings games are on NBC Sports California locally in the Sacramento area with Kayte Christensen-Hunter as a game analyst and Mark Jones on play-by-play. You can also see selected Kings games on ESPN, TNT, ABC, and NBA TV.
Meanwhile, Sports 1140 KHTK-Sacramento is the local radio home of the Sacramento Kings.
Streaming the Kings online
Kings games are available online with an NBA League Pass subscription or with NBC Sports California online.
Sacramento Kings history
The Sacramento Kings began play in 1985 when the Kansas City Kings moved the franchise to the California capital from the team’s previous home in Missouri. Despite posting a losing record, the Kings made the playoffs in that first season in Sacramento. However, the team lost a first round matchup with the Houston Rockets without winning a playoff game and didn’t make the playoffs again for another decade.
In 1998, the Kings drafted flashy point guard Jason Williams, signed crafty big man Vlade Divac, traded for star forward Chris Webber, and welcomed 1996 draft pick Peja Stojaković over from Serbia. The moves began a new era of competitiveness for the franchise. The team went 27-23 in the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season, marking the franchise’s first winning season in close to 20 years and its first in Sacramento.
The Kings lost in the first round of the NBA Playoffs again, but posted a 44-38 record a season later and earned a spot in the postseason for the second year in a row. Once again, the Kings lost in the first round. The following season, the Kings traded for guard Doug Christie and drafted forward Hedo Türkoğlu. The team went 55-27, won a first round playoff series, and proved it was a contender.
The following season saw the Kings replace Williams with a more stable point guard in Mike Bibby. The team posted a league-best 61-21 regular-season record and won two playoff series before losing to the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals in seven games. The Kings went 59-23 and won the Pacific Division the next season, but could not get out of the second round of the playoffs. Webber injured his knee in that second round series and never really recovered. The Kings again lost in the second round a year later. In the offseason, Divac signed with the Lakers. Christie and Webber both left via in-season trades, and the team has largely been in rebuilding mode ever since.
In 2013, the casino-owning Maloof family agreed to sell the Kings to a group led by tech entrepreneur Vivek Ranadivé, a sale that went through after the purchasing group fought off a rival bid that sought to move the team to Seattle. The team moved into the new Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the 2016-17 season. In 2021, Dyal Capital bought a 5% stake in the team, but Ranadivé remains the majority owner.
Sacramento Kings FAQs
In 2013, the Maloofs, including George J. Maloof Sr., George J. Maloof Jr., and Adrienne Maloof, owned the Sacramento Kings. Discussions about selling to a Seattle-based ownership group began and were widely reported as finalized. With league approval, the team would move to Seattle. However, the entire deal was still pending NBA Board of Governors’ approval.
The new ownership group filed for franchise relocation. Then, a number of local Sacramento counteroffers emerged. The Maloofs gave the local bids an ultimatum to match the Seattle group’s $341 million offer as a backup option in case the NBA Board of Governors rejected it. The Seattle group increased its offer to $550 million, then $625 million, but the NBA Board of Governors Relocation Committee voted 7-0 against relocation to Seattle. NBA owners also voted 22-8 to reject relocation, the Seattle group walked away empty-handed and the Kings remain in Sacramento to this day.
In 2013, after a bid emerged hoping to buy the team and move it to Seattle, the Maloofs sold majority ownership in the Kings to a California-based group led by TIBCO chairman Vivek Ranadive. The total price paid was $534 million, an NBA record at the time.
The Sacramento Kings were founded in Rochester, New York in 1923 as the Rochester Seagrams. The team joined the National Basketball League in 1945 as the Rochester Royals and was an inaugural Basketball Association of America franchise. The league became the NBA in 1948 and the Royals won the 1951 NBA championship before relocating to Cincinnati in 1957 and becoming the Cincinnati Royals.
In 1972, the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, played some games in Omaha, Nebraska, and became the Kansas City–Omaha Kings. The name change was necessary to avoid confusion with the Kansas City Royals baseball team. After three years the team became just the Kansas City Kings and after the 1984–85 season, the franchise relocated to Sacramento, California, becoming the Sacramento Kings.
Way back in the franchise’s history, the team did win the 1951 title as the Rochester Royals. As the Sacramento Kings the team has never made the NBA Finals, but has made the Western Conference finals twice (1981 and 2002).
Oscar Robertson is widely considered the greatest player in franchise history. The “Big O” is the franchise leader in a number of key categories and he’s a Hall of Famer. However, an argument could be made for Chris Webber as well. He led the team and made four straight All-Star teams at the height of the modern Kings’ greatest period of success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.