SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 30 points, and the Orlando Magic dominated Sacramento 131-94 on Thursday night for the Kings\u2019 franchise-record 15th consecutive loss.<\/p>\n
Orlando made a team-record 27 3-pointers on 50 attempts. Banchero went 5 of 7 from 3-point range, the most of all Orlando scorers, and had six assists and five rebounds in the opener of a four-game trip.<\/p>\n
The Kings broke the futility record a day after star center Domantas Sabonis and guard Zach LaVine had season-ending surgeries. The franchise had 14-game losing streaks in 1959-60 and 1971-72 while playing as the Cincinnati Royals.<\/p>\n
The NBA record for consecutive losses is 28, set by the Philadelphia 76ers over the 2014\u201315 and 2015\u201316 seasons and matched by the Detroit Pistons in 2023\u201324.<\/p>\n
The NBA-worst Kings are 12-45, with a five-game trip up next. Sacramento is winless since beating the Washington Wizards at home Jan. 16 for its season-best fourth victory in a row.<\/p>\n
Orlando broke the team record for 3-pointers of 25 set Jan. 3, 2004, at Sacramento in a 138-135 loss in double overtime.<\/p>\n
Anthony Black added 20 points for Orlando, with four 3-pointers. Desmond Bane had 17 points, with three 3-pointers, Jett Howard had 16 points and went 4-for-4 on 3s, and Jevon Carter added 14 points, with three 3-pointers. Seventh in the East, the Magic improved to 29-25.<\/p>\n
Rookie Maxime Raynaud led Sacramento with 17 points. Keegan Murray added 15, and Precious Achiuwa and Malik Monk each had 14.<\/p>\n
Banchero had 18 points in the first half to help the Magic take a 64-55 lead.<\/p>\n
After Sacramento cut it to 83-81 with 4 minutes, 25 seconds left in the third, Orlando closed the quarter with a 19-3 run to take a 102-84 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Tristan da Silva hit three consecutive 3s early in the fourth to make it 111-88. The Magic outscored the Kings 48-13 in last 16:25.<\/p>\n
The victory came a day after Orlando announced that forward Franz Wagner would miss at least more weeks as he continues to recover from a high left ankle sprain suffered Dec. 7 against the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n
Sabonis had a meniscus tear in November and played just 19 games this season. LaVine had surgery to repair a tendon on his right pinky finger.<\/p>\n
The Kings started out as the Rochester Royals and also were the Kansas City-Omaha Kings and Kansas City Kings. They moved to Sacramento for the 1985-86 season.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Magic: At Phoenix Suns on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kings: Face San Antonio Spurs in Austin, Texas, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Paolo Banchero scored 30 points, and the Orlando Magic dominated Sacramento 131-94 on Thursday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1981,1970,1977,2097,7,420,12325,48,6,67,47,76,3883,1979,66,83,1974],"class_list":{"0":"post-614186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-sports","15":"tag-magic","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-orlando-magic","20":"tag-orlandomagic","21":"tag-professional-basketball","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-news","24":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116104420795611685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}