Kings executive admits to defrauding team

Court records show a former Sacramento Kings top executive has agreed to plead guilty to siphoning $13.4 million from the team to buy Southern California beachfront properties.

Federal prosecutors in Sacramento, California, on Wednesday filed charges and a plea agreement signed by former chief revenue officer Jeffrey David admitting to forging the team president’s signature to divert sponsorship payments to a bank account he controlled. Court records show the properties have been sold for $14.8 million, and the team is expected to recoup the stolen funds.

David is expected to plead guilty to wire fraud and identity theft in January and faces at least two years in prison, court records show.

David’s lawyer, Mark Reichel, didn’t return a call for comment.

The Sacramento Bee first reported the plea deal Wednesday. the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night because of illness.

That absent trio ranks Nos. 4-6 in scoring for Boston this season.

The game against Washington was Horford’s third in a row on the sideline. He said the pain in his knee has not been getting better.

The Celtics did get back Aron Baynes, who had been out for two whole games and most of a third with a bad ankle.

The Wizards, meanwhile, ruled out Otto Porter Jr. with a bruised knee, but John Wall was set to return to the lineup.

SUNS FORWARD FINED >> Phoenix Suns forward T.J. Warren has been fined $15,000 by the NBA for directing inappropriate language toward an official following his ejection from a game.

The fine was handed down Wednesday by league discipline executive Kiki VanDeWeghe.

The incident occurred with 1:44 remaining in the second quarter of the Suns’ 123-119 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.

In his first game back after missing five with an ankle injury, Warren had just been ejected for drawing back-to-back technical fouls.