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the Franchise's nickname had always been The Royals, but when the franchise moved from Cincinnati to Kansas City in 1972, they were renamed the Kings because Kansas City already had the Royals Baseball team. The Basketball team agreed to change its nickname, even though it had used the name for 25 years before the baseball team was established.

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The Kings began play in 1945 as the Rochester Royals. The team moved to Cincinnati in 1957 and was known as the Cincinnati Royals. The team moved to Kansas City and Omaha and played as the Kansas City-Omaha Kings starting in 1972. The team left Omaha and played solely as the Kansas City Kings starting in 1975. They finally moved to Sacramento in 1985 and are now known as the Sacramento Kings.

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