http://www.sacbee.com/content/sports/basketball/kings/story/13661620p-14504475c.html
by Sam Amick
Peja Stojakovic had done his share of talking, 90-minutes plus with countless reporters after a five-month hiatus from the daily chaos at the Arco Arena practice facility.
"What's my job?" Stojakovic jokingly asked.
"To answer questions," a reporter responded.
The Kings' job descriptions changed for a few hours Monday, as the team held its annual media day that serves as the unofficial season tipoff party. The real work starts tomorrow, when training camp begins for the team that may be the biggest mystery in the NBA. They added forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim and shooting guard Bonzi Wells, lost super-reserve Bobby Jackson and short-term shooter Cuttino Mobley, and plugged the gaps with reserves who are at once promising and unproven.
If that first day is any indicator, there is much work to be done, with only four players (Mike Bibby, Stojakovic, Brad Miller and Kevin Martin) who were at last year's camp. The Kings will hold two practices on the first day, a virtual crash course for parts new and old. If new forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim is any sort of team spokesman, the transition is a workable one. "Most of these guys that are here are unselfish, so I think that'll make it easier," said Abdur-Rahim, who came to the Kings as a free agent from Portland in August. "I don't think it will be hard. It's all expectations and all of that other stuff right now. None of it really matters until we throw the ball up for that first regular season game. I think we'll see then."
by Sam Amick
Peja Stojakovic had done his share of talking, 90-minutes plus with countless reporters after a five-month hiatus from the daily chaos at the Arco Arena practice facility.
"What's my job?" Stojakovic jokingly asked.
"To answer questions," a reporter responded.
The Kings' job descriptions changed for a few hours Monday, as the team held its annual media day that serves as the unofficial season tipoff party. The real work starts tomorrow, when training camp begins for the team that may be the biggest mystery in the NBA. They added forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim and shooting guard Bonzi Wells, lost super-reserve Bobby Jackson and short-term shooter Cuttino Mobley, and plugged the gaps with reserves who are at once promising and unproven.
If that first day is any indicator, there is much work to be done, with only four players (Mike Bibby, Stojakovic, Brad Miller and Kevin Martin) who were at last year's camp. The Kings will hold two practices on the first day, a virtual crash course for parts new and old. If new forward Shareef Abdur-Rahim is any sort of team spokesman, the transition is a workable one. "Most of these guys that are here are unselfish, so I think that'll make it easier," said Abdur-Rahim, who came to the Kings as a free agent from Portland in August. "I don't think it will be hard. It's all expectations and all of that other stuff right now. None of it really matters until we throw the ball up for that first regular season game. I think we'll see then."
He was blinding me with those diamonds I call boulders on his ears. Just one of those would send both my kids to college. 
