It sure looked easy. There's little doubt that a lot of hard work went into the Kings' 109-94 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday night.
There's even less doubt that the Kings made beating the Atlantic Division's second-best team look like no big deal.
Before the 100th consecutive sellout crowd of 17,317 at Arco Arena, the Kings improved to a league-leading 17-1 at home. Their 10th consecutive home win also improved their overall record to 23-9.
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Kings point guard Mike Bibby knew the question was coming and was prepared.
Bibby, who in his fourth NBA season has yet to miss a game, ranks second among active players for consecutive games started with 246. Only Utah's John Stockton with 308 has more.
In consecutive games played, New York's Shandon Anderson at 365 and Stockton are ahead of Bibby.
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SACRAMENTO - Reports of divisiveness have been greatly exaggerated, it would seem.
The Sacramento Kings were off to a great start without Chris Webber, the 6-foot-10-inch All-Pro forward who was idled by a severe ankle injury. They were moving the basketball, and everything was great.
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Kings Dec 2001 Archive
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| Dec 31, 2001
ACRAMENTO - Now that's NBA basketball.
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| Dec 30, 2001
Sometimes, especially to reporters -- and players trying to score against him -- Kings guard Doug Christie must seem invisible.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Kings forward Chris Webber was discussing revenge Thursday, ticking off the ways in which his team could avenge a 20-point loss to the Timberwolves this month -- better rebounding, more energy, healthier players -- when he hit on what might just have been the key:
"That was there.
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| Dec 29, 2001
Sacramento may have been 21-9 entering Friday night's victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves, but forward Chris Webber says neither he nor the Kings had hit their stride yet this season.
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| Dec 29, 2001
The Kings led comfortably for most of Friday night's game, but early in the fourth quarter Minnesota made the requisite NBA comeback attempt.
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| Dec 28, 2001
Kings fans: You know you want to do it.
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| Dec 28, 2001
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| Dec 28, 2001
Just call Bobby Jackson, in his fifth NBA season, Mr.
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| Dec 27, 2001
With less than three minutes left in the game Wednesday night, Kings center Vlade Divac stood around the bench area during a timeout spraying his teammates with a can of Enviro-Duster.
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| Dec 26, 2001
If surprise and wonder about the Kings and why they do the things they do were a part of your Christmas thoughts, don't be concerned.
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| Dec 24, 2001
Kings center Vlade Divac jokes that he's going to ask for a trade.
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| Dec 24, 2001
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| Dec 24, 2001
One good blowout deserves another, so the Phoenix Suns received an early, unwanted Christmas present Sunday night, courtesy of the Kings.
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| Dec 23, 2001
LOS ANGELES -- Kings coach Rick Adelman watched Chris Webber during Friday morning's practice and thought everything was going to be all right.
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| Dec 23, 2001
LOS ANGELES -- The Kings are fortunate to begin a five-game homestand tonight, because right now, they can't win anywhere else.
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| Dec 22, 2001
LOS ANGELES -- Hedo Turkoglu is usually a boisterous, fun-loving, easygoing young man.
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| Dec 21, 2001
SEATTLE -- Kings coach Rick Adelman didn't say it directly, but his players are to blame for their recent road woes.
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| Dec 21, 2001
It's a good thing Kings coach Rick Adelman doesn't like his team to practice following the second game of a back-to-back situation.
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| Dec 20, 2001
SEATTLE -- The Kings left Sacramento on Tuesday night slightly depleted and returned home in much worse shape.
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| Dec 20, 2001
SEATTLE -- Kings center Vlade Divac noticed something was wrong on the bus ride to the airport before the team flew out of Sacramento for Wednesday night's game against the Seattle SuperSonics.
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| Dec 20, 2001
To this day, Chris Webber said it was hard saying no to Joe Dumars and Isiah Thomas, his boyhood idols from the Pistons' championship era.
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| Dec 20, 2001
HIGHLIGHTS: Vin Baker's block of a Vlade Divac shot that triggered a fast break, culminating with a Gary Payton layin and a 63-54 lead.
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| Dec 20, 2001
The Sonics received good news before the opening tipoff, adding to their apparent edge of being well-rested against the Sacramento Kings: Chris Webber missed the trip because of tendinitis in his left ankle.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Almost a year ago to the day, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Sacramento Kings played in a game that was supposed to be a rematch of the battle between power forwards Vin Baker and Chris Webber.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Even if you're critical of his game, convinced that the Sonics power forward will never be an All-Star again, Vin Baker has thrown it in the face of all the cynics .
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| Dec 19, 2001
When: Today, 7 p.
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| Dec 19, 2001
The free-agent stint of Chris Webber was scrutinized by Kings fans last summer as if they were money managers tracking the stock market.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Chris Webber isn't surprised at all about the Pistons fast start.
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| Dec 19, 2001
The Michigan State jersey is hanging in his locker.
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| Dec 19, 2001
Until Chris Webber finds his groove in the Sacramento Kings' lineup, they'll try to keep winning with the type of team effort that kept them among the NBA's elite during his absence.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Adelman said the team's starting small forward continues to be considered on a day-to-day basis.
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| Dec 18, 2001
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.
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| Dec 18, 2001
Among all the side plots to tonight's game -- Michiganians Mateen Cleaves and Chris Webber vs.
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| Dec 17, 2001
A hatful of games into his NBA career, Gerald Wallace already has put himself in the books.
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| Dec 17, 2001
pretty nondescript game -- despite the return of Jason Williams -- already had provided many of the characteristics Kings coach Rick Adelman was seeking when Gerald Wallace spiced things up.
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| Dec 16, 2001
There's no point infusing the Williams-Bibby debate with statistics, because, deep down, no one on either side gives a rip about the numbers.
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| Dec 16, 2001
Jason Williams has been here before, but never in a situation like this.
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| Dec 15, 2001
MINNEAPOLIS -- Kings small forward Peja Stojakovic was stretching last week, presumably in an attempt to increase his flexibility and reduce the chances of suffering an injury.
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| Dec 15, 2001
MINNEAPOLIS -- There are no more misleading statistics in the NBA than the Kings ranking second in defensive rebounding and third in rebounding overall.
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| Dec 15, 2001
What the Timberwolves lost, first and foremost, when they let Bobby Jackson leave as a free agent after the 1999-2000 season was the equivalent of a pair of jumper cables.
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| Dec 14, 2001
Kings coach Rick Adelman called on rookie swingman Gerald Wallace early in Wednesday's game against the Phoenix Suns.
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| Dec 14, 2001
MINNEAPOLIS -- It's almost as difficult to diagnose the psyche of an NBA team as it would be to dive off the roof of Arco Arena into a small glass of water.
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| Dec 14, 2001
In order to fully appreciate how well the Sacramento Kings handled Chris Webber's 20-game absence to start the season, it is perhaps best to apply a similar set of circumstances to the Timberwolves.
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| Dec 13, 2001
Mark Kreidler of the Sacramento Bee has an excellent analysis of Rick Adelman's career as only the 22nd coach in NBA history to achieve 500 wins.
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| Dec 13, 2001
PHOENIX -- "Hey Adelman, where's your team?" a wise-guy fan yelled at Kings coach Rick Adelman late in the third quarter at America West Arena.
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| Dec 13, 2001
PHOENIX -- Playing in the city in which you were raised is not as easy as it might seem.
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| Dec 12, 2001
As his Kings and the Orlando Magic ran up and down the floor as if they were conducting a continuous fast-break drill, coach Rick Adelman thought back to his days at Pius X High School in Southern California.
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| Dec 12, 2001
It didn't take Chris Webber very long to get back into the flow after missing the first 20 games for the Sacramento Kings.
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| Dec 12, 2001
The Sacramento Kings can explode like a sprinter out of the starting blocks.
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| Dec 11, 2001
The Kings are back to full stength and seeking payback against the Magic.
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| Dec 11, 2001
Chris Webber watched and learned on the sidelines.
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| Dec 11, 2001
TONIGHT: Sacramento Kings, 10 p.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Doug Christie still isn't sure why he has seven stitches in his right hand.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Anyone out there still think the Kings are a better basketball team without Chris Webber?
Right.
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| Dec 10, 2001
Nothing came easily for the Kings in the 2001-2002 regular-season debut of Mr.
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| Dec 10, 2001
While the Sacramento Kings have had the luxury of holding out Chris Webber, their All-Star forward who had missed the entire season until Sunday with a sprained right ankle, the struggling Heat has no such breathing room with center Alonzo Mourning.
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| Dec 10, 2001
The $123 million man was back Sunday night -- and much to the Heat's chagrin.
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| Dec 10, 2001
The Heat broke its 12-game losing streak on Friday in Seattle, but even coach Pat Riley admitted a day later his team was the beneficiary of a little luck against the Sonics.
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| Dec 10, 2001
After missing the first 20 games of the season through injury, Chris Webber is back on the basketball court for the first time since signing a $122.
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| Dec 9, 2001
Doug Christie still doesn't know who stepped on his hand last Sunday at Arco Arena, causing a deep cut that resulted in seven stitches and one game on the sideline, but we can report with certainty that it was not referee Dee Kantner.
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| Dec 8, 2001
Just one game.
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| Dec 8, 2001
One game does not a season make, but a victory over the two-time defending world champion Los Angeles Lakers always tastes sweet.
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| Dec 7, 2001
It's always going to be special for Mitch Richmond to walk into Arco Arena, and tonight will be no exception.
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| Dec 7, 2001
Kings coach Rick Adelman told the media Wednesday he would watch Chris Webber participate in practice Thursday, then alert folks about the possibility of the forward playing tonight against the two-time defending world champion Los Angeles Lakers.
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| Dec 6, 2001
The Kings are 14-5 sans Webber
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| Dec 6, 2001
One early trend this NBA season has been the inability of many teams, even most of the league's elite squads, to establish dominance.
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| Dec 5, 2001
Nine times out of 10, defeating the Philadelphia 76ers is going to require intensity and work ethic because that's what the defending Eastern Conference champions are all about.
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| Dec 5, 2001
They were up nine points early in the third quarter.
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| Dec 4, 2001
For the Mavericks, winning Sunday's overtime epic at Sacramento didn't merely avenge a home loss to the Kings three nights earlier.
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| Dec 4, 2001
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that Chris Webber may return to the Kings line-up sometime this week.
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| Dec 3, 2001
A game that nearly got away from the Mavericks turned out to be one for the ages.
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| Dec 3, 2001
Kevin Johnson has been out of the limelight lately but the former Phoenix Suns star is still creating wins.
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| Dec 3, 2001
It was as if the playoffs had come to Arco Arena in December on Sunday night.
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| Dec 1, 2001
SAN ANTONIO -- Peja and patience.
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| Dec 1, 2001
Instead, the Kings again turned conventional wisdom and the Spurs on their heads, pulling out a 109-106 overtime victory Friday night in front of a season-high crowd of 26,808 at the Alamodome.
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