NBA: 5 Franchises with the Longest Championship Droughts

#1 Sacramento Kings, last title 1951 - 67 years

This is the last team to win a title for Kings franchise.

The Kings won their only title as the Rochester Royals and have never been back to the championship round. They moved to Cincinnati, Kansas City, Omaha, and then Sacramento and have been chasing the championship success in every city. They are one of the oldest franchises in the league, playing for 70 seasons and being one of the worst to do it. Even currently, they haven't made the Playoffs for 11 seasons and it will soon be 12 when this year concludes.

The closest they have been to tasting championship glory was in 2002, where they lost game 7 at home to a Los Angeles Lakers team that was finishing off their threepeat. They had one more season the next year where they were truly a title contender before Chris Webber injured his knee in the Conference Semifinals and have had no realistic chance of ending their title drought since. They had hoped their drafting of DeMarcus Cousins on 2010 would help lead them out of this malaise, but after his petulant attitude and failing to surround him with any semblance of consistency, they traded him last season and decided to rebuild again.

Now, the Kings are hoping De'Aaron Fox and whoever they draft early in the 2018 draft will be the foundational pieces to lead them back to the playoffs and end their now 68-year drought. Focusing on sound team building and making smart trades to acquire more draft assets to give them a chance of finding role players is a must. They have been zigging and zagging too much in the last eight years or so, giving them no hope of even entertaining the thought of making the Finals and ending their drought.