The Portland Trail Blazers sacked the Sacramento Kings 122-110 on Sunday evening, nailing down a 42-40 record for the season and the 8th seed in the 2026 NBA Play-in Tournament. Deni Avdija was the top scorer for the Blazers with 25 points, Precious Achiuwa paced the Kings with 27.<\/p>\n
All of the starters for the Blazers finished in double figures, but for me the player of the game was Kris Murray. Kris doesn\u2019t make a lot of noise when he\u2019s on the court, but he frequently leaves a mark. He played 30 very efficient minutes in this one, helping the cause in every way imaginable. He scored 9 points on 3 for 4 shooting (2 for 2 from three) with 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. This added up to a plus 27 in the plus-minus stat.<\/p>\n
Turnovers have been kryptonite for the Blazers this year, but they turned in the right direction tonight. The count in that category was 12-16 in favor of the Blazers, including 9 steals.<\/p>\n
Both teams scored 33 points in the first quarter, but only the Blazers could keep it up for the rest of the half. The score was 77-57 at the half, thanks to opportunistic defense (6 steals) and efficient offense (20 assists).<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the Kings woke up at the start of the third quarter, cutting their deficit to 7 points by the time the Blazers called time at 6:43. It was back to 12 by the end of the quarter, but it definitely goes down as a missed opportunity to put the game away. The end result was eventually achieved, so on to the Play-In we go!<\/p>\n
The Blazers are heading for Phoenix Tuesday to play the Phoenix Suns. At stake is the 7th seed in the NBA Playoffs. Game time is 7:00 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers sacked the Sacramento Kings 122-110 on Sunday evening, nailing down a 42-40 record for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1971,54959,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-264933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","tag-instant-recaps","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264933","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=264933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}