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Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors drives against Doug McDermott of the Sacramento Kings in the second half Tuesday at Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n
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The NBA investigated the Sacramento Kings after Draymond Green suggested they intentionally lost their game Tuesday against the Golden State Warriors<\/a>. The league determined coach Doug Christie made a tactical error rather than a deliberate attempt to lose.<\/p>\n Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n \u2022 What happened: Christie instructed Doug McDermott to foul Seth Curry with 3:15 left while the Kings led by one. Curry, an 86.4% career free throw shooter, made one of two free throws to tie the game.<\/p>\n \u2022 Why he did it: Sources told The Sacramento Bee that Christie wanted to stop the clock<\/a> to use a timeout before the three-minute mark and mistakenly believed the Kings had a foul to give before putting the Warriors in the bonus.<\/p>\n \u2022 The NBA\u2019s conclusion: The league said<\/a> Christie \u201cmade no intentional effort to give the Warriors a shooting foul, or to cause the Kings to lose the game.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Green\u2019s reaction: After the Warriors\u2019 110-105 win, Green said, \u201cI saw a team tonight foul Seth Curry with three minutes to go for no reason. I get fined when I do wrong. Fine the hell out of people.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Context: The Kings were missing seven players due to injuries, including Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Russell Westbrook and Keegan Murray. Christie has repeatedly stated he doesn\u2019t believe in tanking.<\/p>\n \u2022 Draft implications: The Kings (21-59) are tied with the Utah Jazz for the fourth-worst record in the NBA, affecting their draft lottery positioning.<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors drives against Doug McDermott of the Sacramento Kings in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-260463","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\/260463","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=260463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}