{"id":698520,"date":"2026-04-04T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:00:22","slug":"kings-maxime-raynaud-sends-bold-message-to-nba-after-pelicans-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698520\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Maxime Raynaud Sends Bold Message to NBA After Pelicans Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/kings\/onsi\/sacramento-kings-news\/kings-rookies-shine-in-hard-fought-win-over-pelicans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their second straight win<\/a> and 21st of the season on Friday night against the New Orleans Pelicans, led by a strong effort by rookie big man Maxime Raynaud.<\/p>\n<p>Despite trailing by as many as 17 points, the Kings stormed back to pull off the 117-113 win to defend their home court. Raynaud finished with 28 points, nine rebounds, and four assists, shooting 11-14 from the field and 6-7 from the free-throw line. After the game, Raynaud made it known that he believes he is the best rookie big man in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think I&#8217;m the best big in the rookie class,&#8221; Raynaud said. &#8220;When that comes to this, I think I&#8217;ve proven it against other pretty good bigs who got drafted ahead of me. Definitely, that&#8217;s something I want to show off. &#8230; I think at some point, the stats don&#8217;t lie. &#8230; I think it&#8217;s pretty clear now.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings picked up their second straight win and 21st of the season on Friday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-698520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116348690486958131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698520","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=698520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}