<Tr> <Td> Third </Td> <Td> Fourth </Td> </Tr> <P> The Sacramento Kings are an American professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California . The Kings compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference's Pacific Division . The Kings are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in Sacramento . The team plays its home games at the Golden 1 Center . </P> <P> The Kings are one of the oldest continuously operating professional basketball franchises in the nation . They originated in Rochester, New York, as the Rochester Seagrams (a semi-professional team) in 1923 and joined the National Basketball League in 1945 as the Rochester Royals . They jumped to the Basketball Association of America, forerunner of the NBA, in 1948 . As the Royals, the team was often successful on the court, winning the NBA championship in 1951 . It, however, found it increasingly difficult to turn a profit in the comparatively small market of Rochester and relocated to Cincinnati in 1957, becoming the Cincinnati Royals . In 1972 the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, and was renamed the Kansas City - Omaha Kings because it initially split its home games between Kansas City and Omaha, Nebraska . In 1975, the Kings ceased playing home games in Omaha and simply became the Kansas City Kings . The team again failed to find success in its market and moved to Sacramento in 1985 . </P> <P> The Royals defected to the NBL's rival, the Basketball Association of America, in 1948 . In 1949, as a result of that year's absorption of the NBL by the BAA, the Royals became members of the newly formed NBA along with the Fort Wayne Pistons, Minneapolis Lakers, and Indianapolis (Kautskys) Jets . A year later, the BAA absorbed the remaining NBL teams to become the National Basketball Association . </P>

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