SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento Kings first-year coach Luke Walton says he is focused on his team and not worried about a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.Walton spoke publicly Friday at Kings media day for the first time since a former sportscaster filed a civil suit against him in April accusing him of the assault."I'm here to do my job and focus on the Kings," Walton said. "The rest will take care of itself."Walton was hired by the Kings in April, soon after being fired following three seasons as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. He was sued shortly after being hired by Kelli Tennant, a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2014 when he was an assistant with the Golden State Warriors and harassing her after that during his tenure with the Lakers.The Kings and the NBA investigated the charges but took no action against Walton when "investigators determined that there was not a sufficient basis to support the allegations."... [More]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sacramento Kings first-year coach Luke Walton says he is focused on his team and not worried about a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.Walton spoke publicly Friday at Kings media day for the first time since being a former sportscaster filed a civil suit against him in April accusing him of the assault."I'm here to do my job and focus on the Kings," Walton said. "The rest will take care of itself."Walton was hired by the Kings in April, soon after being fired following three seasons as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. He was sued shortly after being hired by Kelli Tennant, a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA, who accused him of sexually assaulting her in a hotel room in 2014 when he was an assistant with the Golden State Warriors and harassing her after that during his tenure with the Lakers.The Kings and the NBA investigated the charges but took action against Walton when "investigators determined that there was not a sufficient basis to support the allegations."... [More]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As one of the NBA's youngest teams for a second straight season, the Sacramento Kings are thinking long term.It's not that the Kings are giving up hope on ending their 13-year playoff drought. The roster is laden with young and mostly unproven players, coupled with playing in a Western Conference that got even tougher with the arrival of LeBron James. So Sacramento's focus is as much on development as instant success."It's a season where we're going to commit to playing even more young guys than we have in the past," Joerger said. "It's an opportunity for guys to develop and it's an opportunity for the organization to evaluate long-term which guys will still be considered a core guy two, three, four years from now."That means a lineup that likely will be in flux most of the season - not surprising for a team that finished 27-55 a year ago.The Kings last made the playoffs in 2005. They have won more than 35 games just once since then.Most of the youth comes Sacramento's... [More]