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Thanks for cutting me - I'll show you: Seattle's center says it hurt when the Kings waived him, but he's happier now

"When the Kings let me go, it was devastating," James said after Monday's practice, the conflicted emotions flashing across his round, boyish features. "I went into a slump for a little while. I stayed in the house for two or three weeks. I didn't want to go anywhere. But then I told myself, 'OK, I'll show them someday,' and I forgave them.

"Now, I'm back in the playoffs and enjoying every minute of it. My goal is to show (the Kings) that they made a huge mistake. The people back there don't even know me."

In the briefest of summations, the man is a character, another in a seemingly endless trickle of 7-footers who enter the league, and one way or another, either by word or by deed - and sometimes by both - leave an impression. James lists Shaquille O'Neal as his favorite player. What else is there to know?

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Kings notes: Jackson replays game 0-fer and 0-fer again

Sonics notes: Who's No. 3? It could be anyone, McMillan says

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Kings Audio:

Cuttino Mobley: "(Jerome James) is not Shaq" (:22)
Cuttino Mobley: "Our confidence is not down at all" (:37)
Rick Adelman: "We can raise our level, but so can Seattle" (1:03)
Rick Adelman: "(Mike Bibby) has always responded" (:47)
Bobby Jackson: "We beat ourselves" (:33)
Peja Stojakovic: "We have to start from the first minute" (:15)

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Peja Vu reported on the other thread that Brad Miller is expected to play 20 to 25 minutes.

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Sacramento at Seattle 10:30 pm EDT

SEATTLE (Ticker) -- Mike Bibby and the Sacramento Kings get an opportunity for redemption when they face the Seattle SuperSonics in Game Two of the Western Conference first-round series Tuesday.

Bibby scored just three points on 1-of-16 shooting as the Kings dropped Game One, 87-82, on Saturday.

There have been just nine games in Bibby's career in which he made just one basket, and two were this past season. His woes contributed to the Kings shooting less than 39 percent (34-of-88) from the floor in the opener.

Despite a strained left groin, Peja Stojakovic led Sacramento with 24 points. Mobley scored 22 for the Kings, who will host Game Three on Friday.

[Peja Vu]

Click for News10's playoff site....it has a blog, schedules, etc.

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Originally Posted by Peja Vu

Click for News10's playoff site....it has a blog, schedules, etc.

Nice site.

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I'll catch the uninformed up, terrible officiating, but the kings don't deserve to win this game by any stretch of the imagination, so it just serves as an example of the incompetance of NBA refs, not as a gmae changer.

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GAME 2 FINAL!!!

Sacramento Kings 93-105 Seattle SuperSonics