The Kings are back in preseason action tonight, their second-to-last before the regular season begins. Let’s get to it.
Who: Sacramento Kings vs. Portland Trail Blazers
Where: Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA
When: 7:00 PM PT / 10:00 PM ET
Watch: League Pass
The Kings are 0-3 in preseason action, and while the wins and losses certainly don’t matter to this Kings fan, I can’t say the on-court product has been particularly impressive. But that is just my view! Watching Doug Christie talk to Kings media Tuesday, he seems pretty happy with the progress so far. Even De’Andre Hunter’s dreadful minutes!
Christie only has one preseason game remaining after this one, so it’d be great to see more minutes for whatever the projected opening night rotation actually is. Domantas Sabonis has played 10 total minutes. Ben Simmons, 9. Keegan Murray, 8. That just isn’t a lot of time to build on-court chemistry, and if the Kings start slow when the games actually mean something, it’ll be pretty easy to point the finger at an unproductive preseason. So, yeah. Let’s let these guys play a bit, shall we? And if the reason why we haven’t seen much of them is injuries, I will recant my statement as soon as the Kings report said injuries properly.
Prediction: Kings 109, Trail Blazers 98.
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