With one member of the family told to stay away (DeMarcus Cousins), the Kings played an unselfish brand of basketball and defeated the Portland Trail Blazers108-96 at Sleep Train Arena.

The players weren’t calling Sunday’s win a statement on how they could play without Cousins but rather a statement of what happens when everyone puts the team first.

“You’ve always got the one family member (who) kind of does their own thing, and you don’t always agree with their ways but you still love them,” Chuck Hayessaid.

“Not so much the crazy uncle but the uncle you raise your eyebrow at like, ‘Why did he do that?’ ” Hayes said. “He’s still family here; we still have him here. We’re not writing him off.

via Jason Jones of The Sacramento Bee