{"id":1293,"date":"2025-10-13T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1293\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:35:20","slug":"can-the-trail-blazers-take-the-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/1293\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Trail Blazers Take the Sacramento Kings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Yang Hansen and the Portland Trail Blazers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\/gameday-coverage\/103875\/portland-trail-blazers-yang-hansen-sacramento-kings-nba-news-china-chauncey-billups-caleb-love\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won a 124-123 victory<\/a> over the Sacramento Kings in preseason action last night. The game was plenty fun to watch, but the matchup also brought up an interesting question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Contemplating the Blazers and Kings going at it in the regular season is kind of like anticipating a fight between a fifth grader and a seventh grader at final recess on a Wednesday. (In the old days, I mean. Obviously we don\u2019t condone bullying or solving problems with violence. Use your words and appropriate mediation, kids.) This isn\u2019t going to be a heavyweight battle for the WBC belt. But as far as this school goes, it might resolve a few things. More to the point, it has the potential to elevate the status of the plucky fifth grader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers are that fifth grader in this scenario. They finished last season 36-46 but are looking to make a step forward this year. The Kings have a better track record than Portland. That said, they ended up barely ahead in the standings at 40-42. If Portland is going to leapfrog any veteran team, Sacramento seems to be an achievable target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Kings have Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan, plus Dennis Schroder, Domantas Sabonis, Malik Monk, newcomer Devin Carter, and Keegan Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers have Shaedon Sharpe, Scoot Henderson, Deni Avdija, Jrue Holiday, Toumani Camara, Jerami Grant, newcomer Hansen, and Kris Murray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Do you see Portland being able to take Sacramento in their head-to-head battles this season? Also, do you think the Blazers will finish with a better regular-season record than the Kings? Are the teams relatively well-matched or do you see one having an advantage?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Share your thoughts in the comment section. Give us your reasoning too, if you will! Either way, this Western Conference matchup should be fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yang Hansen and the Portland Trail Blazers won a 124-123 victory over the Sacramento Kings in preseason action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1971,1972,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","tag-discussion-and-gameday-threads","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}