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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
BRYAN PATRICK bpatrick@sacbee.com Kenny Thomas (9) spent the past two seasons riding the Kings' bench and struggling through coaching changes. But new coach Paul Westphal, background, has put Thomas back on the court to help lead younger teammates such as Beno Udrih. Kenny Thomas still can't explain what happened. It's as if he woke up one morning as a decent rebounder and interior defender, then...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
From the Sacramento Bee's Ailene Voisin: Monarchs' demise leaves bitterness, memories While awaiting word about a possible Monarchs relocation to the Bay Area, the hangover lingers. No more WNBA in Sacramento. I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. I even grudgingly grasp the rationale – the slumping economy and the Kings having sucked the life out of the local franchise –...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS Bee file, 2008 Ticha Penicheiro said she planned to spend her entire WNBA career with the Monarchs. While awaiting word about a possible Monarchs relocation to the Bay Area, the hangover lingers. No more WNBA in Sacramento. I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. I even grudgingly grasp the rationale – the slumping economy and the Kings having sucked the life out of the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Sacramento Kings' Jason Thompson reacts to a foul called against him on the Chicago Bulls during the first half Tuesday night at Arco Arena in Sacramento, Calif, on November 17, 2009. Talk of possible trades dominated the conversation in our Kings live chat with Bee columnist Ailene Voisin. Replay it here.
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
PAUL KITAGAKI JR. pkitagaki@sacbee.com The Kings have no complaints with first-round draft pick Tyreke Evans. The 6-foot-6, 220-pound point guard has helped fill the void left by the injury to Kevin Martin. Says fellow guard Beno Udrih, "I think we work together really well." "Spectacular," Paul Westphal praised. "Unbelievable," Pete Carril marveled. "He was on fire,"...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Kings coach Paul Westphal and his sideline manner – with fist pumps, pirouettes, the barking of directions and the heaping of praise – has injected life back into the team. Paul Westphal has gone and done it. In a matter of weeks, he has put some kick back in the Kings. Or as someone said to me after Friday's victory over the Houston Rockets, "All that diving on the floor. What's that...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The last time anyone saw Donté Greene doing anything like this – running, dunking, defending, producing highlights and limiting his poor decisions – was during his weeklong penance last January with the Reno Bighorns of the Development League. He returned to the bench as soon as he returned to the Kings. He struggled in the summer league. He became a father. He made new friends, these...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The very protective company line holds that very little has changed. No radical shifts, Kings coach Paul Westphal says. Kevin Martin moves toward wrist surgery, Beno Udrih slips into the starting backcourt, but Tyreke Evans remains the point guard. Not so fast. If not exactly a radical shift, there's some subtle shuffling going on. Evans thinks Udrih is the new point guard. Udrih thinks Udrih is the...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It began 25 years ago, these Kings in Sacramento. Gregg Lukenbill in his red sneakers. David Stern arriving in his limousine. Jerry Reynolds in the old, old, old Arco Arena, holding the assistant's clipboard and leading the cheers. It was loud. It was sold out. It was a victory. Just like Monday night. Those Kings of Reggie Theus, Mike Woodson and Larry Drew went on to secure a playoff berth, which...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
New Sacramento Kings coach Paul Westphal, left, argues a call during a preseason game victory Oct. 17 against Golden State at Arco Arena. Westphal hadn't been an NBA head coach since 2000. "I have a passion for the game, for the competition," he says. Almost a decade removed from his last NBA head coaching job, Paul Westphal had dropped out of the conversation; he no longer was pursued or...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
If you want something done right, call Mama. 'Cause Mama ain't afraid of you. After the Monarchs championship banners went missing at Arco Arena, Ailene Voisin of the Sacramento Bee contacted someone who would give her a straight answer : Colleen Maloof, the matriarch of the Maloofs. The mystery is, no one seems to know who did it. Bee columnist Ailene Voisin on Friday approached...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Coming soon from Harper, "The Mystery of the Mal-doofs and the Missing Monarchs Banner." The mystery is, no one seems to know who did it. Bee columnist Ailene Voisin on Friday approached Colleen Maloof and asked why the banners are missing. "I have no idea what happened," the visibly miffed matriarch told Voisin. "Why would anyone do something so stupid?...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... from the Arco Arena rafters. The mystery is, no one seems to know who did it. Bee columnist Ailene Voisin on Friday approached Colleen Maloof and asked why the banners are missing. "I have no idea what happened," the visibly miffed matriarch told Voisin. "Why would anyone do something so stupid? I asked Gavin (Maloof) to talk to Geoff (Petrie) and find out what...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The only good news is that Sacramento 's newspapers are expressing their pain at losing the Monarchs and keeping the Monarchs demise on the table, as it were. (If the Dream were folded, you'd never get an editorial out of the AJC - you might get a brief article or an "I told you so" opinion piece that the AJC runs instead of news.) Ailene Voisin writes that "The Monarchs...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... the Kings. "We love the Monarchs," Kings and Monarch co-owner Joe Maloof told The Bee's Ailene Voisin last week, "but all of our efforts have to be on getting the Kings back to where they once were …" Today's economic reality is grim. That makes it a tough time for WNBA President Donna Orender to be out talking to Bay Area investors, who've indicated some...
