{"id":224787,"date":"2026-03-18T04:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:37:22","slug":"russell-westbrook-nears-historic-milestone-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224787\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook nears historic milestone in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russell Westbrook is on the verge of another historic milestone as the Sacramento Kings prepare to play the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday at Golden 1 Center.<\/p>\n

Westbrook ranks seventh among the NBA\u2019s all-time leaders in assists with 10,333. Westbrook needs two assists to pass Mark Jackson for sixth and three assists to move into the top five ahead of Steve Nash. The top four on the career list are John Stockton (15,806), Chris Paul (12,552), Jason Kidd (12,091) and LeBron James (11,909).<\/p>\n

The Kings (18-51) have won four of their last five games, helping team morale but potentially hurting their odds in the NBA draft lottery. After maintaining the worst record in the NBA for weeks, the Kings have now moved ahead of the Indiana Pacers (15-53), Washington Wizards (16-51) and Brooklyn Nets (17-51).<\/p>\n

The Spurs (50-18) are in a much more enviable position with De\u2019Aaron Fox and Victor Wembanyama leading a team with championship aspirations. San Antonio has the second-best record in the Western Conference \u2013 and the NBA \u2013 behind the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 18-2 since Feb. 1. Wembanyama is averaging 24.3 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.0 blocks. Fox, who was traded to San Antonio after seven-plus seasons in Sacramento, is averaging 19.1 points, 3.7 rebounds, 6.3 assists and 1.2 steals.<\/p>\n

The Spurs will be on the second night of a back-to-back after beating the Los Angeles Clippers 119-115 on Monday. They have yet to submit an injury report for Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

The Kings will be missing Devin Carter (calf), Drew Eubanks (thumb), De\u2019Andre Hunter (eye), Zach LaVine (finger), Keegan Murray (ankle) and Domantas Sabonis (knee). Malik Monk (ankle) is questionable.<\/p>\n

Spurs at Kings<\/p>\n

When: 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where: Golden 1 Center<\/p>\n

TV: NBC Sports California<\/p>\n

Odds: Spurs -13.5<\/p>\n

Over\/under: 235.5<\/p>\n

Injury report<\/p>\n

Spurs: Not yet submitted.<\/p>\n

Kings: QUESTIONABLE \u2014 Malik Monk (ankle). OUT \u2014 Devin Carter (calf); Drew Eubanks (thumb); De\u2019Andre Hunter (eye); Zach LaVine (finger); Keegan Murray (ankle); Domantas Sabonis (knee).<\/p>\n

This story was originally published March 17, 2026 at 12:54 PM.<\/p>\n

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Jason Anderson is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Kings beat writer. He is a Sacramento native and a graduate of Fresno State, where he studied journalism and college basketball under the late Jerry Tarkanian.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell Westbrook is on the verge of another historic milestone as the Sacramento Kings prepare to play the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[17841,102440,102439,6662,121,123,128,122],"class_list":["post-224787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-golden-1-center","tag-mark-jackson","tag-nba-assists","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224787","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=224787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}