Derrick Williams News

Jun 26, 2014; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Nik Stauskas shakes hands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as the number eight overall pick to the Sacramento Kings in the 2014 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center.

The NBA's summer league is where players will fight for their futures, and teams will decide which of these players can flesh out their rosters the best.

Derrick Williams' quest to fulfill the potential that made him the second overall pick of the 2011 NBA draft has brought him to Spring Valley High School for the Kings' summer league minicamp.

Former Utah Jazz coach Ty Corbin was at the Kings' summer league practice Tuesday morning working with players, even though the team had not announced that he had been added to the team's coaching staff.

Williams, the secondpick in the 2011 NBA draft, was asked to play in the summer league to work on his game as he heads into his fourth NBA season.

Earlier this week, the Sacramento Kings agreed to lock up former UCLA point guard Darren Collison for the mid-level tax exception of $5.3 million/year.

This offseason, the Kings' goal was not to add All-Star talent, but to bring in players who were fine not scoring and who could impact games with defense, desire and effort.

The Kings' deal with Darren Collison is for three years at approximately $16 million, league source says.

The Kings announced Wednesday that assistant coach Chris Jent will coach their NBA summer league team in Las Vegas for the second consecutive year.

Although the Sacramento Kings and Detroit Pistons were unable to come to an agreement prior to the NBA Draft that would have allegedly sent Derrick Williams and Jason Thompson to Motown in exchange for Josh Smith, it appears such a trade may not be as dead as previously thought.

With the tenth overall pick, five second rounders, and a disgruntled power forward in Thaddeus Young , the Sixers looked prime to make some moves higher into the draft lottery.

The Sacramento Kings are highly unlikely to have much action in free agency this offseason due to their lack of financial flexibility.

When Rudy Gay exercised his player option for next season, the Kings landed their big fish of the offseason.

The day that dramatically alters the landscape of the NBA has finally arrived, and with it comes one final batch of rumblings from the rumor mill.

Big East Coast Bias writer Charlie Burris takes a look at three possible places where former St. John's forward JaKarr Sampson could end up when the NBA Draft concludes.

The 2014 NBA draft is one of the deepest in years, but it is the uncertainty looming over the event that makes it exciting.

By Dan Jenkins DETROIT The overwhelming narrative for the Detroit Pistons' offseason so far has been that the power forward duo of Josh Smith and Greg Monroe will not work and that one of the two big men needs to be moved.

Marc Stein is reporting that the Kings are interested in Smith and could potentially trade for him by draft day.

SB Nation's NBA Network conducted a mock draft with bloggers from each team site making or trading "their" team's pick.

DeMarcus Cousins has been busy this offseason, but not too busy to make a phone call to a teammate with a message – stay in Sacramento.