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Signs good for Miller, Jackson

Injured Kings players Brad Miller and Bobby Jackson received good news about their potential return to action after being examined and tested Tuesday.

Geoff Petrie, president of basketball operations, said he hoped both players would be on the Kings' 12-man playoff roster.

"That's a decision for another day," said Petrie, whose team has four regular-season games left and will not have to submit its playoff roster until a few days before the postseason starts the weekend of April 23-24.

"I don't anticipate anything," Petrie added. "Neither has been released. Neither has practiced. We'll have to make that decision once they start doing more basketball-related activities. But I'm hopeful they are on the roster."

The Kings want to add Miller to the frontline group that includes centers Brian Skinner and Greg Ostertag and forwards Kenny Thomas, Peja Stojakovic, Corliss Williamson and Darius Songaila.

Great news so far.

GO BRAD AND BJAX!!!

[Twix]

^Well, that news sounds like Kevin Martin won't make the PO roster.


My prediction:

Kings 109
Lakers 101

Pedja 29 pts, 5 rebs, 5 assists
Bibby 21 pts, 5 rebs, 10 assists
Thomas 22 pts, 13 rebs, 2 assists

Kobe 30 pts, 7 rebs, 6 assists
Vlade 9 pts, 5 rebs, 4 assists

GO KINGS!!!!

Both Kings and Lakers have enough rest before this game. We'll see Lakers coming out more aggressive since they're at home. This won't be a blowout game.

[halfbreed]

Kings 110
Lakers 81

Peja 37 pts
Bibby 22 pts

Kobe 14 pts

[DaUnbreakableKinG]

Originally Posted by Twix

^Well, that news sounds like Kevin Martin won't make the PO roster.


My prediction:

Kings 109
Lakers 101

Pedja 29 pts, 5 rebs, 5 assists
Bibby 21 pts, 5 rebs, 10 assists
Thomas 22 pts, 13 rebs, 2 assists

Kobe 30 pts, 7 rebs, 6 assists
Vlade 9 pts, 5 rebs, 4 assists

GO KINGS!!!!

Both Kings and Lakers have enough rest before this game. We'll see Lakers coming out more aggressive since they're at home. This won't be a blowout game.

We need this one now since the Rockets are closing on us and are just .5 games away from being tied with us.

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Maloofs pay surprise $12 million on loan

There was no fanfare and certainly no cheesy mock-up of a giant check a la Publishers Clearinghouse.

Instead, a Sacramento Kings representative Wednesday quietly entered city Treasurer Tom Friery's office and surprised him with a $12 million check.

The unscheduled payment will whittle the team's $83.6 million city loan balance to less than $72 million.

"Wow, I'll be needing to get this to the bank," Friery said in an interview. "It's a good business decision by the Kings, and it's certainly appreciated by the city."

"It's no big deal," Brown said. "We've been making our interest payments and just decided to reduce our principal."

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Kings notes: Former trainer is mourned by his successor

Kings trainer Pete Youngman received his start in the NBA because of his predecessor, the late Bill Jones. So Youngman was understandably saddened to learn that Jones died Monday of cancer.

"In college, you learn from your professors," Youngman said after Wednesday's practice, "and I had great professors at Ithaca College, but real-life experiences, practical athletic training and how to deal with people and different personalities was probably the best thing I learned from Bill."

Youngman said he was initially supposed to join the Kings to help out Jones for one week during training camp in 1993. Then Youngman said Jones nudged former Kings players Lionel Simmons, Wayman Tisdale and Mitch Richmond to speak to owner Jim Thomas, and suggest he be kept around.

Dallas again? - The Kings' first-round playoff opponent is yet to be determined, but should they retain the fifth spot in the Western Conference, they would meet the Dallas Mavericks in the postseason for the fourth consecutive season.

Miller's health - Adelman said he doesn't believe center Brad Miller will be ready for the start of the playoffs on the weekend of April 23-24.

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Mark Kreidler: Forget about the dead legs: Peja is blooming this spring

It was such a great theory that you almost hate to see it go down in flames.

Peja Stojakovic kept going pffft during the NBA postseason because he had dead legs, you see, and dead legs are the result of too much basketball, and what he needed to do was quit all that international stuff in the summertime and he'd be fine.

And Stojakovic did that, almost exactly as the Kings asked. He skipped last summer's Olympics, not playing for his home country of Serbia-Montenegro. He mostly set basketball aside.

He also asked for a trade from the Kings and showed up to camp a little out of shape, but let's not get too far off track here. The point is it's April in the first 82-game campaign after the Big Rest, and Stojakovic looks good. He's shooting his highest field-goal percentage - 46 - of any month this season.

"I feel good," Stojakovic said Wednesday, "but I feel good (in past playoffs), too. I never looked for any excuse that I was tired or anything. I never said that. My shot wasn't going in, and that's it."

GO PEJA!!!

[Peja Vu]

vBookie Event: Kings @ Lakers (5) 4/15/05

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Originally Posted by Peja Vu

vBookie Event: Kings @ Lakers (5) 4/15/05

Woohoooo!!

Gotta bet a THOUSAND on the Kings.


Everybody tell us how much you've bet.