SACRAMENTO — Minutes before the Knicks and the Kings tipped off Thursday night, Vlade Divac, joking with reporters, said that he had some advice for Kristaps Porzingis, New York’s rookie big man from Latvia.
If Porzingis should ever feel so frustrated that he wanted to lash out at a referee, Divac said, he should do it in his native tongue.
“You say something in your own language, you can say whatever you want and your frustrations will go away,” he said. “But they’re not going to fine you.”
It was timely counsel from Divac, 47, the general manager and vice president for basketball operations for the Kings, who was born in Prijepolje, Serbia, and played in the N.