This. This is what the final stretch of the Sacramento Kings season has been missing so far. A game where the young players lead the charge to win a close contest. The Kings have won games here and there over the last handful of games, but it’s always felt like a veteran or single player leading the charge.<\/p>\n
But tonight felt different. It was all on the young guys down the stretch, and they showed out to get a close win against the Pelicans, taking down New Orleans 117-113. Yes, the Pelicans are also a bad basketball team, with their record slipping to 25-53, but they had their big name players on the court to close out the game.<\/p>\n
With their pick headed to the Atlanta Hawks, regardless of record, they have no insentive to lose. Zion Williamson, Trey Murphy III, and Saidq Bey were all on the court in the final minutes, while the Kings had Devin Carter, Nique Clifford, Daeqwon Plowden, Maxime Raynaud, and Dylan Cardwell in for the final six minutes of the game.<\/p>\n
We’ve seen Doug Christie go with this lineup throughout the season, but they haven’t had much of a chance to win close games to this point, so it was a great way for the young players to get some great developmental minutes and come away with the win.<\/p>\n
Rookies Shine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This. This is what the final stretch of the Sacramento Kings season has been missing so far. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698865,"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-698864","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\/116349622237289654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698864","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=698864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}