Sports Teams
The Sleep Train Arena hosts the Sacramento Kings, the only professional sports team in Greater Sacramento.
The only Big Four team based in the Greater Sacramento area are the Sacramento Kings who play at the Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento. Prior to 2009, the Sacramento Monarchs of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) were also based at the Sleep Train Arena and were one of the most successful WNBA teams until it folded after the owners gave up on owning the team and relocation to San Francisco or Oakland failed. Greater Sacramento is the only metropolitan area in the West Coast and in California to have ever hosted a Winter Olympic Games when Squaw Valley hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics, becoming the smallest city to ever host an Olympic Games, a title it still holds. Squaw Valley was the second Olympic games hosted in California and the only one not held in Los Angeles, where the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics were hosted and was the only Winter Olympics held west of the Mississippi River until the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
| Team | Sport | League | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento Kings | Basketball | National Basketball Association | Sleep Train Arena |
- NCAA Division I College Sports
- Sacramento State Hornets
- UC Davis Aggies
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