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Game -6
Sacramento Kings v. Brooklyn Nets
In China
By Stephen Tetsu, the guy sporting the Chairman Mao haircutGame -6
Sacramento Kings v. Brooklyn Nets
In China
There's pretty much only one thing to do when Demarcus gets that close to the rim: admire the carnage.
After a relatively uneventful first victory of the preseason against the Raptors, the Kings take their "position-less basketball" and approximately twenty-seven power forwards across the Pacific Ocean to the exotic, far-flung (and incredibly lucrative) market of China, the homeland of such basketball luminaries as Yao Ming and Wang Zhi Zhi.
The whole excursion has led to a great deal of special events and stories being shared and publicized on the the Kings' social media accounts, something that seems rather mundane, aside from the fact that most major social media sites are blocked as part of China's continuous war on the selfie (among other things). The Kings took part in a Fan Appreciation Day (though I'm not sure that there's a massive Kings fan base lurking in the basketball country that Yao built). Oh, and Vlade and Peja made a token appearance in the wake of the jersey retirement announcement. So that's cool.
Apparently Shaq remembered that he owns part of the Kings, as he has shown up in recent pics from China, including pictures with Sim Bhullar (Tall and fat) and Yao Ming (taller and in-shape) and a picture of him working out with Vivek (short, built like a stick bug).
Perhaps the most surprising development of the whole dealio is the fact that Shaq is looking perhaps more in-shape now as a retired entrepreneur than in roughly his last decade of playing in the NBA, which can only mean one thing: Shaq is making a comeback and it's going to be for the Sacramento Kings.
Just imagine it, a Shaq/Demarcus front court mercilessly stealing all of the rebounds and free throws. Shaq going 5 of 13 from the line but it being okay because Cuz rebounded all of his misses and put them all back in, effectively turning everything into a 3-point play. Just imagine the marketing frenzy: a new Twin Towers, one old and rich, the other new, less rich, but also better at this point in time..
And then snap out of it. That was your mind on drugs.
I'd write more but it's 2 AM and I have to be up for work in approximately five hours AND it's preseason so no one really cares. Go Kings!
They announced a while back that a number of pre-season games (including both of the Kings' games in China) would be open broadcast. Enjoy. 
