Kings guard Donte DiVincenzo is coming off his best game since being traded from Milwaukee to Sacramento at last month’s deadline. On Wednesday, facing his old Bucks team, he put up 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting (4-of-8 on threes), chipping in four rebounds and three steals.
According to James Ham of ESPN 1320 in Sacramento (Twitter link), head coach Alvin Gentry said after Wednesday’s game that there’s a good chance DiVincenzo will move permanently into the Kings’ starting lineup before the regular season is over. Gentry added that he almost made that move for Wednesday’s contest.
DiVincenzo started all 66 games he played in 2020/21 for Milwaukee, but has started just one of 31 games for the Bucks and Kings this season following his return from ankle surgery.
Here’s more from around the Pacific:
- A coalition of social justice activists is calling on the NBA to remove Robert Sarver as the owner of the Suns, writes Howard Beck of SI.com. The American Sports Accountability Project published a letter on its new website stating that the group is “profoundly disturbed by the reports of racism, misogyny and abusive behavior allegedly committed” by Sarver. An independent investigation into the allegations against Sarver is ongoing.
- After playing three games in the G League, center James Wiseman was recalled to the NBA by the Warriors on Wednesday. He’s practicing with the team this week and could make his season debut with Golden State as early as Sunday, tweets Anthony Slater of The Athletic.
- Clippers wing Norman Powell, who is recovering from a fractured left foot, had the boot removed from his foot this week, tweets Broderick Turner of The Los Angeles Times. There’s still no guarantee that Powell, who last played on February 10, will be back before the regular season ends in 23 days.
I can’t believe how the league hasn’t taken the ownership away from Sarver by now!
I mean they can just take the team away without any compensation for the guy & sell the team to another owner… & that would make around 60 mil in net profit for every team in the league to compensate for the loses suffered during the collective madness of C-19, right?
They cannot take away a team without any compensation. Do you know how ownership works? They can force him to sell the team but they cannot just take the team away from him. That’s called stealing. Except in this case they’d be stealing something worth $1.4 billion. Do you realize the legal $hit storm that would happen if they just took the team? Donald Sterling was forced to leave and sold his team for $2 billion. So no, they cannot just take the team from him with no compensation.