NBA season-preview capsules: Pacific Division

(Photo credit: Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images)1. SACRAMENTO KINGS

Predicted 2024-25 record: 53-29

Last season: 46-36, T-9th in Western Conference

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The Kings won a playoff series, it was in the 2004 first round against the Mavericks, the same team that had ended Arvydas Sabonis' career in the postseason a year earlier. Arvydas had 23 career NBA playoff wins; his son, Domantas, has just seven -- three for the K