Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting tonight that the Sacramento Kings are in the lead to sign former Houston Rocket and Modesto native, Chuck Hayes: “The Sacramento Kings have emerged as a frontrunner to sign Rockets free-agent forward Chuck Hayes, league sources said. Sacramento had wanted to sign Hayes to a lucrative one-year deal to keep cap space for the summer of 2012, but could come back with the kind of multiyear offer now needed to acquire him…”

