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Postgame Quotes-vs. LA Lakers

Kings Coach Rick Adelman
On Peja Stojakovic
“I don’t know what it is…I know they said it was a pull. They said mild, I don’t know what that means, we’ll just have to wait and see.”

“I think we know pretty much what we have to do as a group. We’ve won some road games recently – three in a row on the road – and we’re going to have to win on the road, because that’s where we’re going to start. I think we know this team pretty well, it would be a lot easier if we’re all healthy…I think we have the ability to compete with anybody that we play.”

“I don’t think it matters one way or another, we just have to win. If we win, we’re going to get the highest seed that we can get, but we have a little bit of a tough game tomorrow too.”

Mike Bibby:
“It’s tough; Peja opens up a lot for everybody else. When he’s out everyone steps their game up. We were a little more aggressive. I’m not always looking to score, I’m looking to pass just as much. I just go out and take what they give me.”

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Stojakovic is a question mark

"It felt funny," he said of his left leg, "so I was stretching it. Then when I was running just before I really hurt it, I kind of felt it cramping up. Then after the shot, I couldn't run at all."

"He definitely will not play," Adelman said of tonight's game in Phoenix against the Suns. "We're going to definitely be cautious with him."

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Mark Kreidler: City, Kings playing arena card game

Just now, I think we all can agree, is no time to panic.

One year ago - that would've been a great time to panic.

You want to start worrying over whether the Kings might someday leave Sacramento? Take a ticket and stand in line. Beyond the bluster, beyond the buffoonery and beyond the button-busting credos of local pride - We Don't Need No NBA Team to Validate Our Existence - there have been thinking people mulling that very scenario for some time.

They've been mulling it through Sacramento's explosive failures of civic leadership and the area's inability to get together on a single, supportable position regarding the construction of a new sports arena. They mulled it when the Maloofs, furious at being sandbagged by a last-minute city spending cap, walked out of the City Council meeting last year, and again when the developer-led deal out in North Natomas cratered a few months back.

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NBA rising in Vegas?

Maloofs are trying to take All-Star Game to city ... and Stern is listening

Sacramento may have devoted basketball fans, but it doesn't have one of the hottest party scenes in the country - not to mention its shortage of 8-foot-long hotel beds.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the Maloofs, owners of the Kings and a Las Vegas hotel-casino, are lobbying to take the National Basketball Association's 2007 All-Star Game not to Sacramento, but to Las Vegas.

As with everything the Maloofs do these days, some Sacramentans immediately began examining the news for hints that the family plans to move their team. Gavin Maloof, however, insisted it means nothing of the sort.

"Las Vegas has the amenities," Maloof said in a phone interview Friday. "The league needs 5,000 first-class hotel rooms (something Sacramento lacks). Las Vegas is used to doing first-class events. This is an international city, and the NBA is an international league."

So that means that the Maloofs really want the team in Las Vegas.

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Kings played just as I expected... But they almost blew that huge lead!!

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Originally Posted by S-Star

Kings played just as I expected... But they almost blew that huge lead!!

They sure did. If it wasn't for Bibby and Corliss we would be in 6th place now.

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Originally Posted by S-Star

Kings played just as I expected... But they almost blew that huge lead!!

Well, I was expecting Lakers to come back into the game. I know they're not a good team but they're playing at home. Most home teams always try to find a way to come back in the game unless they're down by 30 points. What would have made me mad is if Lakers came back and lead more than 8+ points. Good thing that didn't happen.