Kings rookie Harry Giles explains the origins of the ‘Litty Committee'

The Sacramento Kings aren’t new to quality bench nicknames. 
 
The "Bench Mob" and the "Goon Squad" hyped up fans in purple long before there was #PurpleTalk. 
 
But this season, the Kings’ bench has adopted a moniker, the "Litty Committee," that is synonymous with both the second unit and a dance group they started to add energy to tip-off.
 
In the latest episode of Kings Central -- debuting March 19 after Kings Postgame Live on NBC Sports California -- rookie Harry Giles III explains the origins of the Litty Committee while getting pedicures with Kayte Hunter. 
 
Kayte Hunter: You’re kind of at the forefront of that Litty Committee, that pregame dancing. How did that whole thing get started?
 
Harry Giles III: It’s weird. It’s weird. We started off, we started dapping hands at the scorer’s table before the game and I would just run down and dap everybody up and then we just started jumping. That’s how it kind of got started. But it started with me and Ben [McLemore III]. When I would do that, me and Ben, Ben McLemore would be at the end. He’s the person I would dap up last every time and he would always just be jumping and bouncing around and I kind of just started doing it with him. I would dap him and we just started bouncing together, we started jumping together. Then I think Frank [Mason III] and Marvin [Bagley III], they just started bouncing with us too. Because, you know, they were all just standing there and it was just a way to get ourselves going. And next thing you know the whole team was doing it. And then we started winning some jump balls, some we didn’t. So it kind of sparked a little convo with it like ‘Ah, we gotta stop doing it’ but I’m like ‘nah, this is a way to get us going.’
 
KH: Well, and then Frank took it to the, the whole dancing. He took it to the next level with that. And then [Bogdan Bogdanovic] getting involved; it’s hilarious. 
 
HG: It’s crazy because Frank is the ringleader of a lot of stuff that goes on with the Kings and nobody really knows it. Like even with the lingo we use, from block boy, to talk, all the talk, anything talk, purple talk, gang talk, king talk, whatever it is. All that’s from Frank Mason, you know what I’m saying? You know, we started saying, me and him would always just have this little lingo and then we just brought it to the team. But he had a lot to do with a lot of that. And even just the dancing, you know, he brings his own little goofy dance into it, man. And just him, who he is, and just his demeanor made it so much more funny too. So, you know, you got to love him, man. He’s done so much behind the scenes that nobody knows.
 
Programming note: New episodes of Kings Central debut monthly during the NBA season on NBC Sports California.