After starting this crucial seven-game, 13-day road trip with a victory at Phoenix last Monday, the Wolves on Sunday lost their third consecutive game -- 115-99 at Sacramento -- and now are 11th in the West, 2.5 games behind No. 8 Houston.
In case you missed it, here's the video of Sunday's timeout confrontation between Kevin Love and J.J. Barea in the fourth quarter. You have to wait until about two minutes in to get a look at the exchange between Love and Barea, and the roles Martell Webster and Luke Ridnour playing stepping in to defuse it.
And here is the game story from that defeat with details about the frustration that bubbled over for a team that nine days earlier had grabbed that eighth and final playoff spot and now finds itself behind both Phoenix and Utah.
And here's the notebook that starts with Michael Beasley's return to action on Sunday, which might be short-lived considering he left the arena wearing flp-flops because he couldn't get his boot over that big toe that swelled up big again during the game.
Most telling about the loss is the post-game discussion in the Kings locker room, where players were debating which of the team's dunks should have made SportsCenter's top spot on Sunday night.
The two candidates:
* Donte Greene's putback behind-the-head dunk in the second quarter.
* Or Tyler Honeycutt's runaway slam in the face of Beasley near game's end.
