John Salmons News

For bad teams, the NBA Draft is a beacon of hope, a chance to get that one of a kind player that can alter franchise history.

One of a couple of excuses peddled to explain the Sacramento Kings ' relative lack of progress this season has been injury troubles.

One year ago right now, the biggest concern for Sacramento Kings fans was that the team's owners - the Maloof family - were going to pack up and move the Kings as soon as they could.

Madonna, Steven Tyler, Lady Gaga, Chris Martin, Roger Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks and even the geriatric Mick and Keith would fill the building because, for good or ill, they're superstars.

To say the '11-12 season was anything short of a bust for John Salmons might be a compliment.

Not every question I asked Kings basketball president Geoff Petrie did not make into the Q&A that ran in Saturday's newspaper so here's some more from the interview.

In continuing our end of the year wrap up on the Kings, we now take a look at the Kings' weakest and most troubled position: The Wings.

For a team that is supposed to have so much young talent, it just seems like the talent never equals the wins.