Sacramento will finally finish with a positive balance sheet: "There is a very dangerous team here" - voila! sport

After no less than 16 years, Sacramento will finally end a regular season with a positive record.

The Kings ensured it tonight (between Thursday and Friday), when they beat Brooklyn 96:101 - their eighth win in the last ten games - to open a half-game lead over Memphis in second place in the West - an almost imaginary scenario at the start of the season.

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In doing so, Sacramento broke the longest streak in the league, which began after the 2005/06 season.

The second longest streak in the league also belongs to the Kings, who held a negative balance between 1983 and 1998. Mike Brown, who became the first coach besides Rick Edelman to record a positive balance with the Kings, said at the end: "I talked to these guys from the first day of the season, they understand the messages Ours. There is a group here that believes in itself. When you have a group that believes, it can be dangerous. When you have a cohesive group that believes, it can be very dangerous. This is the group we have right now."

"None of us came into this season saying, 'I want a positive record,'" said the team's star Dearon Fox.

"But in my opinion, it's good. It's good for the club and this city, that the streak has finally stopped. As far as we're concerned, we want to do much bigger things."

One of those things would be to make the playoffs,

"I've been here for over four years, I've seen the biggest downturn, the frustration of the fans and people in this club," added Harrison Barnes.

"It's nice to be on the other side now. I'm lucky to be a part of this moment."

On the horse.

Fox and Monk (Photo: GettyImages, Harry How)

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