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Secret Emails Show Kevin Johnson Spying On, Attempting To Bankrupt Enemies
The city clerk of Sacramento has released a trove of correspondence between Kevin Johnson and his cronies, over which the scandal-magnet lame-duck mayor of the California capital fought a long, dirty campaign in hopes of keeping it from journalists and legal adversaries. This latest document dump ha...
DeMarcus Cousins Doesn't Understand The Kings Draft, Either
How many centers should an NBA team have? One is clearly not enough, although the Cleveland Cavaliers just won the Finals without really playing any of the players technically classified as centers on their roster. You probably should have at least two, because big, tall basketball men are good at g...
Kings Draftee's Father Is A Fiery, Irrepressible Twitter Troll
Last night, the Sacramento Kings selected Georgios Papagiannis with the 13th pick in the NBA Draft. The Kings, who have two guards under contract, passed on the only prospect to work out for them (Wade Baldwin) to draft a player who ESPN had going in the second round and Draft Express ranked as the ...
DeMarcus Cousins Expresses His Feelings At Kings Reaching To Select Anonymous Greek Center
The Sacramento Kings have been very active this evening, trading Marco Belinelli for the 22nd pick, then selecting Marquese Chriss at eight, only to send him to Phoenix for the 13th pick and Bogdan Bogdanovic (who, we should note, is NOT Bojan Bogdanovic). They then reached for Greek center Georgios...
Sports Drafts Are Immoral And Bad
The Sacramento Kings came in for even more derisive laughter than the baseline occasioned by any mention of their existence yesterday when ESPN’s Chad Ford posted the following in the little quasi-Twitter scroll thing on the right side of the Worldwide Leader’s busted website:...
Deadspin Awards: Worst Team
The Deadspin Awards are in July and we need our readers to decide the winners of these prestigious honors. Today, we ask you to answer a simple question to which we nonetheless hope you’ll devote some serious thought: Of all the bad sports teams, which is the worst sports team?...
It's Boogie Time
Steph Curry decided this week to skip the Olympics, and this afternoon, Russell Westbrook announced he’d do the same. Team USA was already short LaMarcus Aldridge, Anthony Davis, and Chris Paul, and they’ll need the remaining candidates to step up. Who will save Team USA?...
Peja Stojakovic Was The Man
Peja Stojakovic’s 39th birthday is today. That’s a fairly arbitrary news peg, especially for a player who only made three All-Star teams and one All-NBA team, but Stojakovic is not just some Guy To Remember, a half-forgotten name to recall and then move on from....
Darren Collison Arrested On Felony Domestic Violence Charge
Kings point guard Darren Collison was arrested yesterday afternoon in Granite Bay, a Sacramento suburb, after a woman called the police at 1 a.m. Monday morning to report that she was being assaulted....
Sacramento Kings Do Something Smart, Hire Dave Joerger
The Sacramento Kings announced this afternoon that they’d hired former Memphis Grizzlies head coach Dave Joerger. Since it’s the Kings, you probably reflexively think this is a dumb move, but it’s actually the opposite!...
George Karl Says The Kings Were As Toxic As They Seemed
This might be counterintuitive, but I wish the Kings had been a little better or a lot worse. They won just few enough games to not matter, and did so boringly, and that’s a shame: This was one of the most dysfunctional seasons in recent memory, and even though everyone knew it, I’m not sure it gets...
MLS Just Keeps Getting Bigger And Bigger
MLS might have trouble ever becoming the best soccer league in the world, but it’s well on its way towards becoming the biggest!...
Report: The Kings Will Fire George Karl. Duh.
The Sacramento Bee and ESPN are reporting the least-surprising coach firing of the year. After their final game tonight, the Sacramento Kings will reportedly dump George Karl, who will have made it through just a season and a half as the Kings’ head coach. The team has now run through eight head coa...
The Other Curry Can Do Cool Basketball Shit Too
Tonight, the Sacramento Kings and Phoenix Su—oh, who gives a shit? Both Pacific Division trashcans are in the midst of a tank-off and the Kings coaching staff didn’t even know that Boogie Cousins wasn’t playing until they couldn’t find him on the plane....
You're Gonna Need More Than Two Defenders To Stop Boogie Cousins From Dunking On You
The Kings are playing at home tonight, which means they are not resting DeMarcus Cousins and desperately trying to lose their way into keeping their pick this year. This is good news for you and me, and bad news for Al-Farouq Aminu and Mason Plumlee, who got dunked on thoroughly by Young Boogie here...
DeMarcus Cousins And Rajon Rondo Execute The Rare Double Technical
Rajon Rondo and DeMarcus Cousins, two of the surliest dudes in the NBA, teamed up to pull off a remarkable act of asshole behavior during the final seconds of last night’s game against the Wizards....
The Sacramento Kings Found A Few New Ways To Make Their Season Even More Of A Joke
The Sacramento Kings shouldn’t really be as newsworthy as they are at this point in the NBA season, and yet they are finding new, creative ways to drive home just what a joke of a franchise they are. They’ve gone 4-21 over the past two months and a once-promising season has dissolved into a slurry o...
More Women Come Forward To Publicly Accuse Kevin Johnson Of Sexual Misconduct
HBO hammered another nail into Kevin Johnson’s political coffin last night. The network’s news magazine, Real Sports, detailed years of sexual abuse allegations made against the famously ambitious former NBA superstar turned scandal-plagued lame-duck mayor of Sacramento....
The Sacramento Kings Finally Broke Doug Christie
The 26-41 Sacramento Kings were down 74-53 to the 25-41 New Orleans Pelicans at halftime Wednesday night, getting torched by Ryan Anderson for 21 points in the second quarter. Analyzing the first half on CSN California, former King and NBA All-Defensive 1st teamer Doug Christie lost it, pleading wit...
These Babies Blew It
The Sacramento Kings treated fans to a baby race during halftime of yesterday’s game, and oh man did those babies shame themselves....