Sara James cruises along the suburban streets of El Dorado Hills, a familiar figure in the 2006 silver Scion with the Stanford sticker on the back. The Oak Ridge High School senior – and last year's Bee Player of the Year – also is known for plotting the most direct route from Point A to Point B.

The Kings are ramping up the rhetoric and festivities because, frankly, Tyreke Evans hints at a future beyond furloughs and foreclosures.

Francisco García hasn't had the kind of season he wanted for the Kings, but he appears to be regaining the form that had people talking.

Though Carl Landry stands 6-foot-8 and carries 248 pounds on a thick, muscular frame, sometimes he stares in the mirror and blinks twice, making sure that even he sees what he sees.

Paul Westphal is experiencing "some of the worst days" of his life, and he isn't talking about the unraveling of the Kings or his curious benching of Spencer Hawes.

The whispers no longer are needed. The awkward, delicate dance between the Kings guards is one step out the door.

The Kings did what they had to do. They broke up a backcourt that was as compatible as Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi, doomed from the start, destined for an eventual split.

NEW YORK – The Kings enter the All-Star break in the midst of a mini-surge, and we use the qualifying "mini" because the recent road victories came at the expense of the irrelevant New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons.

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