Kings/NBA

Brockman's hustle impresses; Hawes' decision disappoints

By Sam Amick - Updated: 8:45 am

A "family commitment" is precluding Spencer Hawes from playing during the summer league in Las Vegas.

By Sam Amick - Updated: 12:55 am

LAS VEGAS – As the Kings' summer league squad held its first practices Wednesday at UNLV's Cox Pavilion, Israeli small forward Omri Casspi was forced to only observe because of a paperwork holdup related to his former team, Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Plenty of new faces on Kings' summer league roster

By Sam Amick - Published: Wednesday, July 8 2009 - 12:00 am

There are worse work environments for a group of 20-somethings than Las Vegas, where the NBA summer league officially tips off Friday.

New King's ascent to the NBA has had its challenges

By Marcos Breton - Updated: Sunday, July 5 2009 - 4:15 pm

The newest hope of a sagging Kings franchise is a teenage basketball prodigy from decayed urban streets where no one – no matter how gifted – truly escapes unscathed.

Diogu might stay; McCants out

By Ailene Voisin - Published: Wednesday, July 1 2009 - 12:00 am

As the beginning of the free agency process approached Tuesday, Kings basketball president Geoff Petrie said the club would not extend qualifying offers to reserves Ike Diogu and Rashad McCants.

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Las Vegas summer league begins

Posted by Sam Amick at 10:57 AM

LAS VEGAS - The coverage continues here from summer league, where we've already discussed Spencer Hawes' decision to not take part and other news and notes from the first day. ...