One of the greatest American sports rivalries of the last decade, which caught the attention of even the most casual of sports fans, and saw diehard followers of both teams spew hatred at each other up and down the Gold Coast, has a chance to be renewed in the not too distant future.
There was, and still is, genuine hatred between these two franchises, which is rare in the NBA today.
From more than 17,000 cowbells piercing the ears of the Laker contingent every time they ventured north, to Shaq famously referring to the Kings as the ‘Sacramento Queens”, and a boxing session between Rick Fox and Doug Christie which carried over into the tunnels of the Staples Center, during a preseason game nonetheless, there clearly isn’t any love lost between these two teams.
In one of the worst officiated series in NBA history, the Lakers beat the Kings in overtime of game seven, of the 2002 Western Conference Finals. With conspiracy talk adding more fuel to the fire, and even with the Kings having had their hearts ripped from their chests, Sacramento felt primed to make another run as an NBA title contender in 2002-2003 campaign.
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