SACRAMENTO (AP) — This time it truly will be goodbye for the Sacramento Kings and their longtime arena.After two previous possible farewells when the Kings were contemplating a move out of Sacramento, the team will play its final home game at the arena it has called home since 1988 on Saturday night against Oklahoma City.Making this one far less emotional than the ones at the end of the 2011 and 2013 seasons is the fact that Kings are only moving to a fancy new downtown arena instead of out of California’s capital city entirely.But there will still likely be some tears and high emotions when the doors shut for the final time. The NBA’s smallest arena was also once its loudest when sellout crowds came out nightly to cheer one of the league’s most entertaining teams in the early 2000s.“When you think old school, you think about the Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium, the Forum, arenas like that,” said former Kings guard and current CSN California analyst Doug Christie. “It had its own character and charm.
Kings saying farewell to longtime arena