{"id":37308,"date":"2024-01-18T21:54:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/?p=37308"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:50:51","slug":"sacramento-kings-indiana-pacers-game-recap-nba-box-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingsherald.com\/articles\/sacramento-kings-indiana-pacers-game-recap-nba-box-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers 126, Kings 121: The Kings look broken"},"content":{"rendered":"
On occasion, the basketball gods gift a struggling but good team a random scheduling break. Tonight should have been that night for the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n
Facing the injury and trade-affected Indiana Pacers, who were missing two All-Stars in Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam, and two starters in Bruce Brown and Aaron Nesmith, the Kings embarrassed themselves at home against a team that could only dress 11 guys, including a couple of two-way players. This team, which once had hopes of a deep playoff run, allowed the Pacers to punk them for the vast majority of the game, as they refused to play an iota of defense, refused to protect the rim, and refused to care about the fans in the packed Golden 1 Center who were more desperate for a win than the team they were cheering on.<\/p>\n
Outside of a late run in the final two minutes that saw De’Aaron Fox finally look like himself and the Kings finally show an ounce of pride on the defensive end of the floor, TJ McConnell was the best player on the hardwood all evening, carving up Sacramento’s defense for 20 points and 10 assists, while Benedict Mathurin put up 25 points of his own, and the much less talented, and much more aggressive and focused Indiana Pacers walked out of Sacramento with an unlikely, but somehow unsurprising victory.<\/p>\n
Whoever the Kings might trade for to rescue this season.<\/p>\n
Monday, January 22nd vs. Atlanta Hawks \u2013 7:00 P.M. (PT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On occasion, the basketball gods gift a struggling but good team a random scheduling break. Tonight should have been that night for the Sacramento Kings. Facing the injury and trade-affected Indiana Pacers, who were missing two All-Stars in Tyrese Haliburton and Pascal Siakam, and two starters in Bruce Brown and Aaron Nesmith, the Kings embarrassed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":37310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[32,777,195,773,28,418],"coauthors":[287],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n