Game-by-game: Sengstock Trophy votes<\/a><\/p>\nDavis memorably took to social media to voice his displeasure at finishing second in the league MVP stakes to 36ers gun Bryce Cotton, his rival across the Championship Series.<\/p>\n
Regardless, Davis expressed his gratitude at the Kings for taking a chance on him this season.<\/p>\n
“You never want to be determined off one bad relationship and that’s what it felt like. Whether it was my fault, their fault, I think it was both our fault of why it didn’t work (at Adelaide),” he said.<\/p>\n
“Just for me, to get all the blame, I couldn’t even click on Instagram at the beginning of the year. You just see all the hateful things.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
At Sunday’s post-match press conference, Davis said teammates Xavier Cooks and Matthew Dellavedova and coach Brian Goorjian had reignited him.<\/p>\n
“These guys kept uplifting me,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I fell in love with basketball again because of these people right here on this table.”<\/p>\n
The Kings have reportedly engaged Davis in talks for a contract extension to remain at the club beyond this season.<\/p>\n
Davis is enthusiastic about the prospect of returning to the Kings, provided a maiden NBA stint does not come to fruition.<\/p>\n
“If I’m not in the NBA, I’ll be back here,” he said.<\/p>\n
“You don’t find too many organisations that don’t believe the hype and do their own research, and they did. I’m a loyalty guy. They mean the world to me.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AAP Newly minted NBL championship series MVP Kendric Davis has promised if he is not in the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-586937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}