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Kings F Quinton Byfield signs 5-year, $31.25 million extension
The Los Angeles Kings locked up forward Quinton Byfield with a five-year, $31.25 million contract extension ($6.25 million average annual value) that takes him through the 2028-29 season.,Byfield, 21, was the second overall pick of the 2020 draft and has played parts of four seasons for the Kings, b...

Kings rookie Devin Carter (shoulder) out at least 6 months
Sacramento rookie guard Devin Carter will miss at least six months after undergoing left shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum, the Kings announced on Thursday.,Carter, 22, was the 13th overall pick in last month's NBA draft after earning Big East Player of the Year at Providence (career-high 19....

Reports: G/F DeMar DeRozan set to join Kings
Free agent guard/forward DeMar DeRozan is joining the Sacramento Kings on a three-year, $74 million sign-and-trade deal, ESPN and The Athletic reported Saturday night. ,Sacramento is sending forward Harrison Barnes and an unprotected pick swap in the 2031 draft to the San Antonio Spurs while also de...

Report: Alex Len to remain with Kings on one-year deal
Veteran backup center Alex Len plans to return to the Sacramento Kings on a one-year, $3.3 million contract, The Athletic reported Sunday.,Len provides depth behind Kings star center Domantas Sabonis, who had 77 double-doubles (including 26 triple-doubles) during the 2023-24 regular season.,Len, 31,...

Lightning trade D Mikhail Sergachev, F Tanner Jeannot
The Tampa Bay Lightning started off Day 2 of the NHL Draft with a bang, trading defenseman Mikhail Sergachev to the Utah Hockey Club and later forward Tanner Jeannot to the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.,In exchange for Sergachev, the Lightning received high-scoring center prospect Conor Geekie, res...

Canadiens move up to 21st pick in trade with Kings
The Montreal Canadiens traded up to the 21st pick in Friday night's 2024 NHL Draft in a deal with the Los Angeles Kings.,The Kings received the 26th selection in the first round as well as picks in the second (57th) and seventh rounds (198th).,The Canadiens now have 10 total picks in the draft, whil...

Reports: Raptors acquire Davion Mitchell from Kings
The Toronto Raptors acquired guard Davion Mitchell and forward Sasha Vezenkov from the Sacramento Kings in exchange for forward Jalen McDaniels on Thursday, ESPN and The Athletic reported.,Toronto also received the No. 45 overall pick in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft from Sacramento in the ...

Reports: Malik Monk staying with Kings on 4-year deal
Malik Monk is set to sign a four-year, $78 million deal to stay with the Sacramento Kings, ESPN and The Athletic reported Thursday night.,The pending deal, which features a player option, would take Monk, 26, off the free agent market. The amount is the maximum Sacramento could offer him. Monk plans...

Caps trade Darcy Kuemper to Kings for Pierre-Luc Dubois
The Washington Capitals acquired forward Pierre-Luc Dubois from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for goaltender Darcy Kuemper on Wednesday.,Dubois, who turns 26 on June 24, was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2016 NHL Draft and has 342 points (145 goals, 197 assists) in 516 games with the Columbus Bl...

Kings remove interim tag, name Jim Hiller head coach
The Los Angeles Kings removed the interim tag and named Jim Hiller as the club's 30th head coach in franchise history on Wednesday.,Multiple media outlets reported Hiller agreed to a multi-year contract. ,The Kings fired Todd McLellan on Feb. 2 and tabbed Hiller as the team's interim head coach. Und...

Does De'Aaron Fox’s injury put the Kings in a hole they can’t dig out of?
The NBA playoffs are a months-long meat grinder that consumes tired NBA bodies and spits out the bones of all but one champion. Joel Embiid, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, and Ja Morant have all missed significant time in the postseason nursing injuries. The playoff meat grinder may have dealt a fatal ...

Pointless NBA playoff gossip for your everyday life
I’ll admit, I am not an NBA expert. However, I am an expert in pointless NBA gossip. With Round 1 underway, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite pieces of information that scream Personal Life section on Wikipedia rather than another segment on NBA on TNT....

Please NBA, just drop the full season of Kings-Warriors
There’s a level of basketball that hoops heads chase. Like a snowboarder seeking powder stashes, or a surfer hunting a huge break, the ecstasy when the snow is waist deep, the barrel is pure, or Steph Curry and De’Aaron Fox are trading buckets at breakneck speed is unlike anything on earth. Whatever...

De’Aaron Fox and his NFT debacle
Sacramento Kings’ guard De’Aaron Fox has been picking pockets both on and off the basketball court lately. After announcing his NFT program “SwipaTheFox” in December and launching it in January, it took less than two months for Fox to shut down the program with more than $1.5 million unpaid to its n...

De’Aaron Fox entering COVID protocol, and Kings are screwed
Quietly, probably because he’s a Sacramento King, De’Aaron Fox has been putting forth the best season of his four-year-career, but will now miss 10-14 days due to the NBA’s health and safety protocol....

Deadspin's 2020-21 NBA Preview — Pacific Division: Stuck between LeBron & a hard place
The Pacific division title (if that means anything to anyone anymore) has been passed around by Clippers, Warriors, and Lakers for over a decade. The last time the Suns won the division, it wasn’t hip for Steve Nash to put his long hair in a man bun. And the Kings? Well, I wish I could remember the ...

After Rome Fell, Europe's Barbarians Had To Figure Out How To Be Kings
Political structures and institutions—the bedrock of the systems that underpin our world and society—aren’t a given. They can and do evolve and strengthen, or, alternatively, crumble into nothingness. That’s one of many reasons the fall of the Roman Empire is a valuable example for us to bear in min...

Scenes From Three Game 7's In One Night
[Goalie Semyon Varlamov of the Colorado Avalanche looks on as the Minnesota Wild celebrate a goal by Nino Niederreiter of the Minnesota Wild to tie the score 3-3 in the third period at Pepsi Center on April 30, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Niederreiter went on to score the game winning goal as the Wild...