{"id":264117,"date":"2021-05-12T00:36:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kings-still-barely-in-playoff-race-after-beating-thunder\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:23:42","slug":"kings-still-barely-in-playoff-race-after-beating-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kings-still-barely-in-playoff-race-after-beating-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings still barely in playoff race after beating Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kings Still Barely in Playoff Race After Beating Thunder. Terence Davis came off the bench to score 27 points, leading the Sacramento Kings<\/a> to a 122-106 home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/h1>\n

With their sixth victory in seven games, the Kings (31-38) kept their faint playoff hopes alive for at least another day. With three games remaining, Sacramento needs to win out and have the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> lose the rest of their games to have a chance at making the Western Conference play-in tournament.<\/h2>\n

The Thunder (21-49) saw their losing string stretch to eight, and they fell for the 22nd time in 23 games.<\/p>\n

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Kenrich Williams led Oklahoma City with 20 points. Darius Bazley had 18 points, and Moses Brown finished with 10 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n

After trailing for much of the first half, the Kings blitzed the Thunder in the third, fueled by a hot start and hot finish to the quarter by Delon Wright.<\/p>\n

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Wright got Sacramento going coming out of the half with a quick steal to help create a bucket and then scored a basket of his own moments later.<\/p>\n

Wright hit a pair of 3-pointers in the final 90 seconds of the period to give the Kings a 20-point lead after a 41-point quarter.<\/p>\n

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Wright scored 13 of his 21 points in the third, making all five of his field goals in the period. Buddy Hield also finished with 21 for the Kings.<\/p>\n

The Thunder were without a true point guard in the game. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> and Theo Maledon were both out due to plantar fasciitis, and Ty Jerome was sidelined due to a calf strain.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City initially thrived with its bigger lineup, jumping ahead with a 12-0 first-quarter run to go up by nine. The Thunder produced a 15-6 run to start the second quarter, giving them a double-digit lead.<\/p>\n

After starting the second quarter just 1 of 7 from the floor and falling behind 47-33, the Kings were 12 of 18 the rest of the way until halftime to cut the deficit to three by the break.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City shot 62.2 percent from the floor in the first half but hit just 34 percent after the break.<\/p>\n

–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check Odds for upcoming Games Kings Still Barely in Playoff Race After Beating Thunder. Terence Davis came off the bench to score 27 points, leading the Sacramento Kings to a 122-106 home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. With their sixth victory in seven games, the Kings (31-38) kept their faint playoff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}