The Kings currently have the worst record in the Western Conference while the Spurs have the second-best record.<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The No. 2-seeded San Antonio Spurs are taking on the worst team in the Western Conference Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Coming off a win in Los Angeles Monday night against the Clippers, the Spurs now travel to Sacramento to battle the Kings in the second day of a California back-to-back.<\/p>\n
It was a late end for the Spurs Monday night on KENS 5 TV, resulting in a 119-115 win vs. the Clippers.<\/p>\n
Stephon Castle led the way with 23 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. Victor Wembanyama added 21 points and 13 rebounds. Devin Vassell had 20 and De’Aaron Fox had 18.<\/p>\n
The Kawhi-less Clippers wouldn’t go away and kept prolonging the game late. The Spurs eventually pulled away and won by four.<\/p>\n
The Spurs now travel nearly 400 miles to Sacramento to face the Kings, the former team of De\u2019Aaron Fox and Harrison Barnes.<\/p>\n
In Feb. 2025, Fox was traded from the Kings to the Spurs in a three-team deal that also sent Zach LaVine from the Chicago Bulls to the Kings.<\/p>\n
So every time Fox goes against the team he spent seven and a half seasons with, it’ll always be a spectacle.<\/p>\n
In three games against the team that drafted him No. 5 overall in the 2017 NBA Draft, Fox has averaged 20.7 points and eight assists. In his one game in Sacramento, Fox put up 16 points and dished out eight assists.<\/p>\n
Since Fox\u2019s departure, the Kings have struggled, both statistically and in the standings. They own the worst record in the Western Conference at 18-51 and the fourth-worst record overall in the NBA, trailing only the Pacers, Wizards and Nets.<\/p>\n
Despite their record, Sacramento has won four of their last five games. All of those games are against teams with a record .500 or worse.<\/p>\n
The Spurs definitely don’t have a record under .500, in fact they have their first 50-win season since the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n
A team with 18 losses all season goes against a team with 18 wins all season.<\/p>\n
San Antonio will look to continue its strong season against a struggling Sacramento squad.<\/p>\n
\nHow to watch <\/p>\n
The game will be televised on FanDuel Southwest. You can also listen to game action on WOAI 1200 and KXTN 1350.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nTeam stats leaders (as of Tuesday night) <\/p>\n
POINTS: Victor Wembanyama (24.3), De’Aaron Fox (19.1), Stephon Castle (16.7)REBOUNDS: Wembanyama (11.2), Luke Kornet (6.2), Julian Champagnie (5.9)ASSISTS: Castle (7.0), Fox (6.3), Dylan Harper (3.8)BLOCKS: Wembanyama (3.0), Kornet (1.1), Champagnie (0.4) <\/p>\n
POINTS: Zach LaVine (19.2), DeMar DeRozan (18.8), Russell Westbrook (15.4)REBOUNDS: Dylan Cardwell (7.6), Maxime Raynaud (7.3), Precious Achiuwa (6.3)ASSISTS: Westbrook (6.6), DeRozan (4.0), Malik Monk (2.7)BLOCKS: Keegan Murray (1.6), Cardwell (1.5), Achiuwa (0.7) <\/p>\n
\nInjury report <\/p>\n
As of Tuesday afternoon, Devin Vassell is out due to an ankle injury. Dylan Harper (calf) and Luke Kornet (knee) are both questionable. Wemby is not on the injury report at all.<\/p>\n
For the Kings, Devin Carter (calf) and Keegan Murray (ankle) are both out. Malik Monk (ankle) is questionable.<\/p>\n
\nFive more things to know <\/p>\n
The Kings have the second worst offense in the league (110.8 points a game).<\/p>\n
Sacramento has the third worst scoring defense in the league allowing 120.6 points a game.<\/p>\n
Due to points No. 1 and 2, the Kings have the second worst points differential, getting outscored by 9.7 points a game.<\/p>\n
They shoot the worst from 3-point range at 33.6%.<\/p>\n
Against his former team, DeMar DeRozan has averaged 23.5 points, 5.3 assists and 4.7 rebounds in six games as a King vs. the Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kings currently have the worst record in the Western Conference while the Spurs have the second-best record.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-224352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224352","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=224352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}