Hassan Whiteside signed with the Kings on a minimum contract this offseason. At that price, he could have been had by several other teams who have loftier goals than the Kings this year.
But the former Sacramento second-round pick wanted to come back to the place where his NBA career began. Injury and immaturity marred his first go-round with the Kings, and it took him a few years in the G League and China before he established himself as a starting-caliber NBA center. Now that he has been around the league, Whiteside thought it would be nice to “rewrite” his story in Sacramento, as he said in his media day availability Thursday.