{"id":823676,"date":"2010-07-05T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T05:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cowbellkingdom.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2010-07-05T22:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T05:11:58","slug":"from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/","title":{"rendered":"From ESPN (Insider): Kings Vastly Improve In Ultimate Standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Kamenetzky of ESPN Los Angeles gives his take (with the help of yours truly) on the Kings organization and how they&#8217;ve risen from 117th last year to 97th in sports. It&#8217;s amazing how much the state of the franchise has improved thanks to a good core of players with a new coach and a future star at the helm (ESPN Insider):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Governator would be the first to tell you that creating change in Sacramento isn&#8217;t an overnight project. But unlike efforts to turn around the state economy, the Kings&#8217; leap in the Standings represents 22 steps in the right direction. In his first year with the team, coach Paul Westphal demanded professionalism. Spencer Hawes found out exactly what that meant when he was benched for criticizing substitution patterns. Maybe change doesn&#8217;t always have to get bogged down in committee. Westphal quickly buried the issue once his point was made, even trading high-fives and chest bumps with Hawes during introductions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/espn\/insider\/news\/story?page=UltimateStandingsSacramentoKings\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Kamenetzky of ESPN Los Angeles gives his take (with the help of yours truly) on the Kings organization and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[610259261],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From ESPN (Insider): Kings Vastly Improve In Ultimate Standings - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From ESPN (Insider): Kings Vastly Improve In Ultimate Standings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-07-06T05:11:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"From ESPN (Insider): Kings Vastly Improve In Ultimate Standings\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-07-06T05:11:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-07-06T05:11:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Cowbell Kingdom\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/from-espn-insider-kings-vastly-improve-in-ultimate-standings\/\",\"name\":\"From ESPN (Insider): Kings Vastly Improve In Ultimate Standings - 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