{"id":693511,"date":"2026-04-02T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693511\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:33:45","slug":"demar-derozan-passes-nba-legend-as-kings-take-down-raptors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/693511\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan Passes NBA Legend as Kings Take Down Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings may not have much left to play for as the season winds to a close, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t going to keep coming out swinging and trying to win.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings took down the Raptors with an impressive 123-115 win to close out their five-game road trip and snap their losing streak. While a loss would have helped their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kings\/onsi\/sacramento-kings-news\/top-five-prospects-in-final-four-kings-should-have-eyes-on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lottery <\/a>odds, it&#8217;s nice to see them get back in the win column, even if it is for just the 20th time this season.<\/p>\n<p>While the team&#8217;s record and lottery position is nearly set (especially after a win tonight), they do still have two Hall-of-Famers on the roster making their climbs up the NBA leaderboards. Russell Westbrook remains out with his injury, but DeMar DeRozan continues to show up night in and night out as Sacramento closes out the year, and he hit another historic landmark tonight.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan hit a three-pointer in the third quarter to pass Dominique Wilkins for 17th on the all-time scoring list, which is fitting that it was a shot from beyond the arc to put him ahead of the NBA legend, as he&#8217;s known for patented mid-range shooting,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings may not have much left to play for as the season winds to a close,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-693511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-toronto","12":"tag-toronto-raptors","13":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116334196406740710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693511","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=693511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}