{"id":528343,"date":"2026-03-09T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528343\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T07:12:06","slug":"kings-126-110-bulls-9-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528343\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings 126-110 Bulls (9 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Russell Westbrook<\/a> had 23 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds for his NBA-record 208th career triple-double, and the Sacramento Kings<\/a> beat the Chicago Bulls<\/a> 126-110 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Westbrook shot 7 of 17 with three 3-pointers in 35 minutes. It\u2019s the fourth triple-double of the season for the 37-year-old, who moved within one assist of passing Mark Jackson for sixth on the NBA\u2019s all-time list. <\/p>\n

Westbrook\u2019s triple-doubles are an ongoing record for the nine-time All-Star and came six days after he ripped into the Sacramento media for the narrative around the Kings this season.<\/p>\n

Denver center and three-time MVP Nikola Jokic<\/a> has the second-most triple-doubles in the NBA with 181.<\/p>\n

Rookie center Maxine Raynaud added 26 points and 11 rebounds. Malik Monk<\/a> scored 30 points, Daeqwon Plowden<\/a> had 16 and Precious Achiuwa<\/a> added 13 to help the Kings to their third win in 23 games.<\/p>\n

Collin Sexton<\/a> made seven 3-pointers and scored 28 points off the bench for the Bulls. Josh Giddey<\/a> had a triple-double with 15 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. Matas Buzelis<\/a> scored 20 points and Nick Richards<\/a> had 10 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Playing before a half-filled home crowd, the Kings built an early double-digit lead that was never threatened.<\/p>\n

Sacramento outscored the Bulls 68-36 in the paint. <\/p>\n

Raynaud (18 points), Monk (14) and Westbrook (10) got the Kings going in the first half. The trio shot a combined 16-for-29, sparking Sacramento to a 65-51 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Bulls: Play Tuesday at Golden State.<\/p>\n

Kings: Host the Pacers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Russell Westbrook had 23 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds for his NBA-record 208th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-528343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}