Sacramento Kings remove ‘Year of the Monkey’ shirts from shelves

“I walk into the building and DeMarcus Cousins calls me over to an animated discussion he’s having with Kings operations people”, Bucks broadcaster and former player Marques Johnson wrote on Facebook. The Kings finished January with an 8-7 mark, their first winning record in a full month of games since finishing November 2014 with the same mark….

“Good move Kings”, Johnson tweeted. Gay had nine as Sacramento outscored Milwaukee 37-30.

Milwaukee has dropped three straight and five-of-six – and is now six games behind IN for the eighth-and-final East playoff slot with 32 games remaining. Gay made 13 of 20 shots from the field and added six assists.

PHOENIX (AP) – The Arizona Diamondbacks are giving the Brewers $6.5 million as part of the trade that sent infielder Aaron Hill and right-handed starter Chase Anderson and infielder Aaron Hill to Milwaukee for shortstop Jean Segura and righty Tyler Wagner. A 3-pointer by Casspi and another by Rondo put the Kings ahead 102-91 with 2:43 left.

Bucks: Carter-Williams almost matched his scoring average in the first quarter when he had 11 points and seven assists….

The Wolves have also previously sent point guard Tyus Jones on an NBADL assignment. The Kings won, 114-104, to snap a four-game skid.

Belinelli started for McLemore and scored 18 points.

“I thought the ball movement got us great looks”, Karl said.

“At least we gave ourselves a chance, which was something more than we did last night”, he told the team’s official website. “We just have to do a better job containing him because he was pretty aggressive the whole game”. He had the second-longest active streak behind Cleveland’s Tristan Thompson, who played his 335th straight game Monday. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 17, Jabari Parker 16 and Khris Middleton 14.