Bryant scored 19 points and tied a season high with 14 assists despite a nagging left foot injury, and the Los Angeles Lakers kept pace for the Western Conference's final playoff spot by outlasting the Sacramento Kings 103-98 on Saturday night.
Maloof, owner of the Sacramento Kings basketball team and co-owner of the Palms Casino Resort, have all stopped by.
For the second time in three years, the Sacramento Kings will host their regular-season finale with the franchise's future uncertain.
His offensive prowess is nearly non-existent and his averages of 8.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game were bolstered by the fact he played for a young, identity-lacking Sacramento Kings team last season.
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Stoudemire was 10 for 10 from the field for 21 points, and New York unleashed a 38-4 run on Sacramento in the first half and clobbered the Kings 120-81 on Saturday night for its fourth straight victory.
But the Los Angeles Clippers' 112-108 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night means the series will open this weekend in Los Angeles.
The Kings long-term stay in Sacramento is not an impossibility.
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Andrews is burying himself in work--like patching up the knee of Sacramento Kings star Chris Webber.
First, the only way that the Kings are going to stay in Sacramento beyond the 2011-12 season is to have a plan in place for a new arena.
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Jordan snared his first NBA head coaching job in Sacramento in March 1997, but was fired by the Kings after going 33-64.
In a blowout victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday, for example, the Knicks began the game sluggishly, trailing 13-3.
On Monday morning, the Seattle Times reported that a Seattle group helmed by hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer agreed to purchase the Sacramento Kings.
The memory of "The Shot, " which gave Indiana a 74-73 victory, is still with Smart, now the coach of the Sacramento Kings, while Jim Boeheim, still the coach at Syracuse, revisited it every day for 16 years.
Mr. Jackson, a pro-arena spokesman for Think BIG Sacramento, the sports consultancy pushing for a new venue for the Kings, accused Mr. Hansen of trying to "short-change our community of badly needed jobs" and challenged him to a public debate.
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