The California Sea-Kings, as the record shows them

Start with the contradiction, because it is the first thing anyone checking the record runs into. The league press release that announced the team in November 2008 called it the new Monterey franchise. The first version of the club's website, captured in June 2009, was headed Seaside Sea-Kings and listed an office in Sand City. By 2013 the footer read Seaside, and in 2017 the club announced a corporate office in Marina, one town over. When The Basketball League welcomed the team in 2020, its release said Seaside, California.

San Jose enters late. The club's June 2021 news post about a road win in Michigan added a line about the next home game: a Tuesday night at Silicon Valley Sports on 10th Street in San Jose. That is the floor Wikipedia's short article has in mind when it places the team in San Jose. So the honest answer to where the Sea-Kings were from is the Monterey Peninsula, with a San Jose address for the last season anyone can document.

The American Basketball Association, the 2000-era revival of the old red-white-and-blue-ball league, announced on November 29, 2008 that it had added Monterey, California to its expansion list for the 2009 season, with Wash Stallworth Jr. as owner. The club held a press conference in Seaside on October 1, 2009 to introduce a head coach, Ruby Richman, and ran open tryouts two days later. What followed was the usual life of a West Coast ABA outfit: a website that ran on Flash, a fan club called the Fast Break Club, home dates in Monterey County gyms, road trips to Stockton and Solano and San Diego, and a coaching change to Wallace Bryant, a seven-footer who took over as head coach and general manager. The club relaunched its site and moved its office to Marina in May 2017, then had the best stretch on record: a 7-0 start in January 2018, a self-reported 14-2 regular season, and a trip to the ABA Final 8 tournament in Texas that April. The 2019-2020 schedule listed Far West Division playoffs for March 2020 and an Elite 8 in Binghamton, New York for April; the ABA cut that season short because of the pandemic and cancelled its playoffs. On November 23, 2020 The Basketball League announced the Sea-Kings would join for 2021. They went 9-11 in the TBL's West Conference, took a first-round playoff bye, and lost a conference semifinal to the San Diego Guardians. They came back for 2022 and had the best year on any outside record: 20-4, first in the TBL's West Division, a 2-0 playoff series win over the Salem Capitals, then a 1-2 loss to the SoCal Moguls in the quarterfinals. From 2023 the league's Wikipedia page lists the Sea-Kings among its former teams. The last post on the club's site is dated June 2, 2021, so the 20-4 season never made its own website. By the start of 2023 the domain was sitting on a parking page marked expired.

Minor-league basketball teams leave thin trails. Their websites are the main record, and when a domain lapses the record goes with it. Seakingsbasketball.com served the club from 2009 through 2022, then expired and was later re-registered. This site sits on that domain as an independent, unaffiliated history built from public records: the Wayback Machine's captures of the old site, Wikipedia, the leagues' own releases, and a 2008 wire release from OurSports Central.

Not the team. Not affiliated with it. Just the record, with the sources attached.

No text from the old official site is reused here. Where a fact comes only from the club's own posts, such as its game records or its schedule, the page says so and treats it as the club's claim rather than a league-verified result. Where a fact could not be checked, it was left out.

• History: the full timeline from the 2008 expansion release to the parked domain, with a table of eras.
• Seasons: the 2019-2020 ABA slate reconstructed from the club's schedule listings, opponent by opponent, plus the two TBL seasons.
• Community: the YMCA clinic, the Purple Heart baskets, the Castroville photos, the veterans parade.
• The ABA and The Basketball League: what each league is and how a club moved between them.