First, I want it to be noted that I have been a devout Sacramento Kings fan since I was old enough to understand basketball. Where as I was happily brainwashed to be a San Francisco 49ers and Giants fan by my family, I was left to my own devices when choosing an NBA squad to call “my team.” It was the early ’90s, and I could have easily gone with the eye-pleasing Chicago Bulls, at that time boasting Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, John Paxton, Bill Cartwright and Horace Grant running the floor and providing a level of basketball that no …