{"id":400411,"date":"2026-07-16T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:18:08","slug":"shockingly-bad-start-sinks-kings-in-summer-loss-to-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400411\/","title":{"rendered":"Shockingly bad start sinks Kings in summer loss to Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sacramento Kings had a chance to win in the end, which was hard to believe considering how lost they looked at the beginning.<\/p>\n

The Kings went scoreless for nearly seven minutes while missing 18 of their first 19 shots in Wednesday\u2019s NBA Summer League game against the Boston Celtics. The Kings nearly overcame a 16-point deficit, but the Celtics held on for an 82-76 victory at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Hugo Gonzalez recorded a double-double with 24 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for the Celtics (3-1). John Tonje scored 18 points, Milos Uzan had 13 and Chris Cenac Jr. came off the bench to post a double-double of his own with 10 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Rookie first-round draft pick Alex Karaban had 21 points and eight rebounds for the Kings (1-3), who will conclude summer league play with a consolation game against the Charlotte Hornets at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Karaban went 7 of 15 from the field and 5 of 7 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Emanuel Sharp scored 12 points for Sacramento. Adam Flagler had 11. Jonathan Mogbo had nine points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Kings chose to rest rookie point guard Darius Acuff Jr., the No. 7 pick in Junes NBA draft, along with second-year guard Nique Clifford and second-year center Maxime Raynaud. Without them, Sacramento struggled to score.<\/p>\n

The Kings trailed 13-2 after going 1 of 19 from the field to start the game. They got their first basket on a putback by Mogbo with 9:03 to go in the first quarter. They didn\u2019t score again until B.J. Edwards hit a midrange jumper with 2:22 to play in the opening period.<\/p>\n

The Celtics led 39-28 at the halftime break and 57-49 at the end of the third quarter. The Kings got within five on a floater by Flagler with 5:59 to go, but the Celtics responded with an 11-0 run to secure the victory.<\/p>\n

Schedule\/results<\/p>\n

California Classic<\/p>\n

Kings 79, Nets 76<\/p>\n

Kings 91, Warriors Blue 85<\/p>\n

Kings 95, Bucks 89<\/p>\n

NBA Summer League<\/p>\n

Kings 91, Clippers 85<\/p>\n

Wizards 104, Kings 85<\/p>\n

Nets 115, Kings 83<\/p>\n

Celtics 82, Kings 76<\/p>\n

7\/17 vs. Charlotte Hornets<\/p>\n

Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Jason Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Jason Anderson has been the Sacramento Kings beat writer for The Sacramento Bee since 2018. He is a Sacramento native who is proud to provide coverage that is as passionate and dedicated as the loyal Kings fan base.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings had a chance to win in the end, which was hard to believe considering how…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-400411","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\/400411","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=400411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}