One of my favorite Rui Hachimura stories is that one time he was in practice at Gonzaga and Mark Few said he'd made a "dumbass" play. Hachimura, who didn't speak much English then, smiled wide because he thought Few was comparing him to Domantas Sabonis who was nicknamed "Domas."
Nick Wright had some words on the Kings-Warriors series and called out Ric Bucher for saying there’s “asterisk” on the series: “I’m listening to colleagues that I respect playing the tiniest and most pathetic violin about the referees having a conspiracy to help the Sacramento Kings at the expense of the Golden State Warriors.”
@cameronsalerno1 If an analyst does not point out the fact that the Warriors had 20 turnovers and the Kings bench outscored the Warriors bench in Game 2, I’m going to flip a table.
"I go against [Davion Mitchell] every day in practice," Fox said yesterday. "That's why ya'll see me do what I do out here because I'm not going against Davion out here."
Here are Mitchell's game-changing defensive highlights from yesterday:
You want to know what a 2-0 lead on the defending champs looks like? This is downtown SACRAMENTO CA, and Kings fans are not leaving the arena.
Kings in 5
"I don't feel like I've ever been in a building as loud as this. It's deafening."
- Mike Brown after the Kings Game 2 win tonight.
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Maybe it's just me but i don't think holding somebody's leg warrants crushing someone's ribs. Just like an argument doesn't warrant punching your teammate in the face.