Ailene Voisin: Signing May could help, but not hurt

Sean May ambled into Cox Pavilion last Tuesday during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, inciting curious murmuring along press row and turning heads in the stands because, frankly, no one was sure it was Sean May. He appeared too thin. His body was muscled, toned. But he held a gym bag and was dressed in work clothes – oversized T-shirt and baggy gym shorts draping his burly frame – and he knew exactly where he was going: to the practice gym to audition for the Kings. After four disappointing NBA seasons, the Most Outstanding Player in the 2005 NCAA Final Four, the Sean May with the North Carolina pedigree, the former lottery pick, was applying for a job. Halfcourt drills. Fullcourt drills. Pick-and-pops. Pivots and defensive slides designed to expose a lack of lateral quickness or a tentative step. "I was a little worried because I had already worked out for Portland and I was tired," May said from Chapel Hill, N.C. "The Kings wanted to see if...