The Kings begin one of their first phases of preparation Thursday when president Geoff Petrie meets with members of the Maloof ownership family in Las Vegas to discuss the state of the team.
Joe Maloof said Saturday that other members of the family might participate in the meetings.
"It's usually just Geoff, me and (brother) Gavin," Joe Maloof said of the gathering at the family's hotel, the Palms. "We usually meet two or three times during the year. (Minority owner) Bob Hernreich will be part of the meeting. He's a member of our partnership, and we value his input. Some of the other members of the family could be there. (Brother) George could be there if he has time, and my mom (Colleen) might be there."
Petrie said, only half-kiddingly, he enjoys the meetings "because there is a lot of good food."
Via Sacramento Bee
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The depression lingers, the defeats haunt, but at some point during this most unpleasant of offseasons, Kings officials will have to strike a balance between being deliberate and decisive.
They have to improve, have to make changes.
The choice is no longer theirs.
Via Sacramento Bee Columnist Ailene Voisin
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The 76ers and Pistons were in the same place my smart-aleck kids say they can find me: stuck in the 60s. That's all each team, plodding along at a glacier pace, had scored deep into the third quarter last Friday.
Brent Musburger of ESPN, fighting sleep behind the mic, invoked Charles Barkley and his recent throwaway line on TNT: "If we have to watch these Eastern Conference games, we want a pay raise."
Musburger isn't the only hoop-head checking out Barkley and his posse on TNT.
Turner Sports was averaging a 2.9 rating for the postseason through the weekend, leaving ESPN and its 2.4 in the dust. Not coincidentally, Turner was blessed with the bulk of NBA playoff dates from the elegant Western Conference, while ESPN has slogged along primarily with the dreadful East.
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Kings May 2003 Archive
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| May 20, 2003
A: Stay with me.
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Sacramento Bee | May 20, 2003
You know, right here on the Third Morning After seems like the perfect time to have the talk.
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Sacramento Bee | May 19, 2003
Bobby Jackson said this was a step back, never mind that the Kings' top player -- forward Chris Webber -- watched the majority of the Western Conference semifinals in street clothes.
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Sacramento Bee | May 18, 2003
Chris Webber now doesn't have to worry about anything but getting healthy.
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Sacramento Bee | May 18, 2003
The images were coming fast and furious, or maybe it was slow and horribly painful.
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Sacramento Bee | May 18, 2003
Chris Webber now doesn't have to worry about anything but getting healthy.
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Sacramento Bee | May 18, 2003
They needed to dangle over the cliff and feel the haunting wind whistle past, needed to know that ridicule was bearing down with a G-force they could not imagine.
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Washington Post Columnist Michael Wilbon | May 18, 2003
Perhaps no 60-win team has been more maligned, perceived as more flawed than the Dallas Mavericks -- a team that acknowledges its struggles on defense, and preferences to play run-and-gun basketball and avoid toe-to-toe traditional battles with the league's heavyweights.
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | May 17, 2003
The Mavericks played hard in Game 6, which was evident by the late rally that nearly produced a series-clinching victory against the Sacramento Kings.
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | May 17, 2003
The Mavericks have been here before.
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Dallas Morning News | May 17, 2003
Don Nelson is trying to figure out what to do about Vlade Divac, a question that is on a lot of Mavericks' minds.
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Dallas Morning News | May 17, 2003
The playoffs are when superstars shine brightest.
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Sacramento Bee | May 16, 2003
Although NBA players and fans have caught the Dirk Nowitzki act for five seasons now, Hedo Turkoglu remembers the Dallas Mavericks forward from a different era.
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Star-Telegram | May 16, 2003
NBA commissioner David Stern has a message for those who objected to the back-to-back setup of Games 3 and 4 of the Mavericks-Kings series.
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San Francisco Chronicle | May 16, 2003
Chris Webber, the franchise player, watched from the bench with torn cartilage in his left knee.
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Dallas Morning News | May 16, 2003
The Mavericks played hard.
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The Sacramento Bee | May 15, 2003
It never was the ultimate point-guard showdown that everyone portrayed, but the Mavericks' 3-2 lead in the Western Conference semifinals has come with the added revenge of Steve Nash outplaying Mike Bibby and the Dallas backcourt as a whole bettering its Sacramento counterpart.
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Dallas Morning News | May 14, 2003
Mavericks assistant coach Del Harris spent several minutes before Tuesday’s game talking privately with Shawn Bradley in a corner of the locker room.
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Dallas Morning News | May 14, 2003
There was Raef LaFrentz blocking a shot at one end and scoring on a driving layup at the other in the pivotal third quarter of the Mavericks' 112-93 win over Sacramento on Tuesday night at American Airlines Center.
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Dallas Morning News | May 14, 2003
It was celebrity night at American Airlines Center, what with golfers Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh and Nike chief Phil Knight – all in town for the EDS Byron Nelson Championship – dotting the audience.
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Los Angeles Times | May 14, 2003
The Lakers played themselves to the edge of their championship run on Tuesday night, to a place they've been before, and so they know the looks of it, and the growing gloom of it.
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Sacramento Bee | May 14, 2003
Whoever said this would be a season unlike any other in the new age of the Kings never had this in mind, when they suddenly need a winning streak to advance and will walk the elimination gangplank alone for the first time in two years to the week.
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Portland Tribune | May 14, 2003
Don’t be shocked if the Trail Blazers replace Bob Whitsitt with the man many consider to be the finest front-office executive in the NBA.
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Dallas Morning News | May 13, 2003
The Sacramento Kings did more than even the series with the Mavericks by winning Game 4.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune | May 13, 2003
Bobby Jackson contends his transformation from NBA wannabe to major award winner and contributor on a championship contender could have been nurtured anywhere -- Target Center, perhaps? -- but it is inside the Sacramento Kings' cubist training facility where he has measured the change in the smallest of denominations.
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Dallas Morning News | May 12, 2003
It was by no means the end, the Sacramento Kings coming one shot, one defensive stop, one something away from capturing the one that got away.
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Sacramento Bee | May 12, 2003
Kings power forward Chris Webber is not convinced his season is finished.
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Sacramento Bee | May 12, 2003
Kings power forward Chris Webber is not convinced his season is finished.
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Sacramento Bee | May 12, 2003
Mark Cuban, the Dallas owner who hasn't seen a referee he likes yet, unloaded on his fellow NBA bosses about not getting loud enough in voicing any displeasure with officiating.
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Dallas Morning News | May 11, 2003
With 7:50 left in the first quarter, the Arco Arena crowd cheered heartily when Mavericks forward Eduardo Najera left the game after getting into a couple of scraps.
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Dallas Morning News | May 11, 2003
On a spellbinding and exhausting night, the Mavericks place on the growth curve toward an NBA championship became clear to them.
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Sacramento Bee | May 10, 2003
The worst fears of the Kings were realized Friday evening when an MRI on All-Star power forward Chris Webber revealed a knee injury that might put him out for the playoffs
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Dallas Morning News | May 10, 2003
After scoring 124 against the Mavericks in Game 1, at least one Sacramento player didn't take kindly to having the tables turned on the Kings in Game 2.
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Dallas Morning News | May 10, 2003
It's a little early to be making any bold statements about having the upper hand, particularly when the Mavericks already have lost the home-court advantage against the Sacramento Kings.
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Associated Press | May 9, 2003
Chris Webber is expected to miss the rest of the NBA playoffs because of torn cartilage in his left knee, the Sacramento Kings announced Friday.
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Sacramento Bee | May 9, 2003
Before being wheeled out of American Airlines Center late Thursday evening, on one of the worst of all possible nights, Chris Webber clutched his injured left knee, squeezed a towel, and uttered the four words that can destroy a season.
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The Dallas Morning News | May 9, 2003
The Sacramento Kings came into Thursday's game full of confidence.
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Dallas Morning News | May 8, 2003
It's no secret that the Mavericks had serious problems with their interior personnel in Game 1 against Sacramento.
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Sacramento Bee | May 8, 2003
Tonight's Game 2 of this Western Conference semifinal series is like a free night at the buffet -- it's OK to be greedy.
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Sacramento Bee | May 8, 2003
Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson said Paul Silas, recently fired as the coach of the New Orleans Hornets, was expected to join him Wednesday night and accompany the team to Sacramento over the weekend.
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Sacramento Bee | May 8, 2003
They still remember Jim Jackson here, the man who started his NBA career in Big D 10 years ago.
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Dallas Morning News | May 6, 2003
Nick Van Exel is embarrassed when he thinks of the way he and Steve Nash were humbled by Sacramento's guards in last season's playoffs.
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Dallas Morning News | May 6, 2003
Don Nelson was addressing media members before Game 7 of the first-round series with Portland when he was asked about possible lineup changes.
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New York Times | May 6, 2003
On more than a few occasions this season, Mark Cuban contorted his face and puffed out his pectorals: the portrait of a deranged fan coiling to strike over a missed call.
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Dallas Morning News | May 5, 2003
Mark Cuban took a look at the schedule for the second-round series against Sacramento and realized the person in charge of it is in desperate need – of a lobotomy.
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Dallas Morning News | May 5, 2003
The Mavericks won't have time to take a breath.
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Denver Post | May 4, 2003
Just imagine if Stan Kroenke were an owner of the Sacramento Kings and not the Denver Nuggets.
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Sacramento Bee | May 3, 2003
The Kings have one playoff series under their belts and the experience that comes with success in a battle.
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Sacramento Bee | May 2, 2003
Karl Malone and John Stockton have been lustily booed as the enemy in Sacramento since, oh, the beginning, from the original 10,333-seat sweat box Arco Arena in 1985-86 to 1987-88, to the current Arco crowds of 17,317.
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| May 1, 2003
Stockton to Malone .
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San Francisco Chronicle | May 1, 2003
The Kings are moving away from the Jazz.
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Stockton Record | May 1, 2003
They took the fifth, and by doing so became the first.
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Stockton Record | May 1, 2003
Given the insanity of a television contract that dictates a midweek NBA playoff game begin at 8:15 p.
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Sacramento Bee | May 1, 2003
Rick Adelman thought he would never see the end of John Stockton and Karl Malone.
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Sacramento Bee | May 1, 2003
There was a great moment out there on the Arco Arena floor Wednesday night, even if you had to rub your eyes a few dozen times before seeing it.
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Sacramento Bee | May 1, 2003
The Kings put in a full night's work Wednesday night.
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Standard-Examiner | May 1, 2003
Jim Jackson has made the playoffs just twice in his 11 NBA seasons, but he had a hand in eliminating the Jazz both times.
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Standard-Examiner | May 1, 2003
As farewells go, this was about as rude as it gets.
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Deseret Morning News | May 1, 2003
If this really was the end, and John Stockton really did play his last NBA game, and Karl Malone really did play his final game for Utah, and Jerry Sloan really did coach the dynamic duo together for one last hurrah, it was a sad, sad way for the ol' gray trio to go down.
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Salt Lake Tribune | May 1, 2003
Look at it this way: At least Greg Ostertag won't be too tired to clean out his locker today.
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Salt Lake Tribune | May 1, 2003
Just because you know the end is coming, it doesn't hurt any less.
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San Jose Mercury News | May 1, 2003
This is probably the only place in the world, other than in the very heart of the Los Angeles dynasty, where the Lakers are not feared.
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Sacramento Bee | May 1, 2003
The Kings put in a full night's work Wednesday night.
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