Pregame

Magic Johnson's involvement with the new Dodgers ownership group comes as no surprise. The Hall of Famer has long been a huge (and knowledgeable) sports fan, and almost desperate to become more intimately involved on the management level. With...

Jerry Colangelo, the czar of Team USA's mens basketball program, told me a few minutes ago that DeMarcus Cousins will be invited to play for the Select team at the pre-Olympic training camps in Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. Colangelo...

If you were hoping to see Kobe Bryant put up 38 or more points tonight to take the NBA scoring title from the Thunders' Kevin Durant, you're out of luck. The Lakers have announced that Bryant will sit out tonight's...

Without much at stake for either team in tonight's regular-season finale between the Kings and Lakers, media attention has focused on the race between Kobe Bryant and the Thunder's Kevin Durant for the league's scoring title. Bryant can wrest the...

The Kings' season comes to an end tonight in the same building and against the same opponent it started with back on December 26. The Lakers are heading to the playoffs as the third seed in the Western Conference, while the...

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Kings have not been told by the NBA if center DeMarcus Cousins will be available for tonight's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Cousins was called for his 13th technical foul of the season in Sunday's...

CHARLOTTE - The Kings are the second-worst road team in the NBA at 5-26. But even they have enough to beat the worst team in the NBA, right? It would be a mistake to assume that. The Kings figured to...

I wrote about Kings swingman Terrence Williams for Friday's Bee, but wanted to add a few things that didn't get into column. Specifically, Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who coached Williams (and Francisco Garcia) in college, was typically engaging an...

The Kings will again be without leading scorer Marcus Thornton tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers, head coach Keith Smart said after the team's shootaround this morning. Thornton is still recovering from a bruised left calf sustained Monday nig...

I finally tracked Don Nelson down on his cell phone in Maui, and while we were chatting about his upcoming induction into the Hall of Fame - which he leaked on Wednesday, because he just can't help himself -...

DeMarcus Cousins' mother, Monique, has been in town the past several days, and as usual, she was candid about her son. We caught up during halftime of Wednesday's Kings-Spurs game at Power Balance Pavilion. I am writing about DeMarcus,...