Kevin Martin News

Four years ago, Brad Gushue was just part of the pack, a lightly regarded entrant in that year's Canadian Olympic Curling Trials whom rival skip Jeff Stoughton described as having "no chance" at the event.

Balanced scoring. Seven Kings in double figures. Best of all, the late game Brockman sighting.

Kings guard Kevin Martin, left, is averaging a team-high 30.6 points a game this season.

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Center Mehmet Okur couldn't recover and help, and power forward got caught flatfooted between his man and a fake from Udrih.

Sacramento Kings Jason Thompson battles for rebound against Golden State Warriors Andris Biedrins on the 1st half at Arco Arena in Sacramento, California November 8, 2009.

Kings television play-by-play announcer and award-winning* radio host Grant Napear will add medical advice duties starting immediately, Kings president Geoff Petrie announced** Saturday.

There's more than one way to get into the Olympic Trials. Even though the Canadian Teams Ranking System was designed to identify the teams most worthy of representing Canada at the Vancouver Olympics, there were other ways for the best teams to avoid this week's pre-Trials event at Prince George.

WHO: Warriors at Kings WHEN: 6 p.m. Sunday TV: CSNBA and NBATV RADIO: KNBR 680 LAST GAME: Warriors lost to visiting Clippers 118-90 on Friday ; Kings beat Jazz in Utah on Saturday 104-99 SEASON SERIES: First meeting LAST YEAR: Teams split four games evenly, each winning once at home and once on the road.

Here are my top five early season rookie rankings, starting at No. 5 with... 5. Tyreke Evans, Sacramento Kings Evans may move up a few spots in the upcoming weeks if Kevin Martin is forced to miss a significant period of time because of a hairline fracture in his left wrist.

Let's go in reverse order here. While much of today's story focused on Kings' commentator and KHTK personality Grant Napear, the topic remains Kings shooting guard Kevin Martin and the question of whether or not he is soft or injury prone.

Sacramento Kings forward Andres Nocioni was arrested on Thursday morning just after the team played the Atlanta Hawks.

I'll let the respective head coaches succinctly and without deviating from socially acceptable coach-speak delineate the difference between being in Year One and being in Year Six of building a team.

Kevin Martin 's really in a pickle. The Bee reports that today Martin will decide whether to undergo surgery to repair his broken wrist , sit 6-8 weeks in the hopes it will heal on its own, or slap on a soft cast and play through it, risking a full break .

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The arrest of Sacramento Kings forward Andres Nocioni early Thursday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence is just the latest chapter in a three-year span of bad news and bad luck that have cast a shadow on the franchise.

The Sacramento Kings said leading scorer Kevin Martin has a hairline fracture in his left wrist and was expected to miss up to two months of action.

Kings small forward Andres Nocioni and San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili stood on the AT&T Center floor Saturday night, two Argentines catching up before tipoff.

By Henry Abbott The Kings' guard scored 48 last night, is the NBA's fourth-leading scorer at the moment and is tied with Amare Stoudemire for the best true-shooting percentage of any active NBA player.

Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford had 26 points each to help the Atlanta Hawks beat the Sacramento Kings 113-105 on Wednesday night.