{"id":60635,"date":"2025-11-19T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:21:11","slug":"will-keegan-murrays-return-elevate-the-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60635\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Keegan Murray&#8217;s return elevate the Sacramento Kings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings are currently closer to last place in the Western Conference standings than they are to the 10th and final postseason spot.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports California analyst Kayte Christensen joined\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross to share her thoughts on the Kings\u2019 tough start to the regular season, highlight what Keegan Murray\u2019s return could mean for the rotation, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the entire interview with Sacramento Kings broadcaster for NBC Sports\u2019 Kayte Christensen on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SactownSports1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sactown Sports 1140 YouTube page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763576469_561_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show with Jason Ross\u00a0from 6 \u2013 10 a.m. PST, Monday through Friday, on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sactown Sports 1140.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/the-drive-with-carmichael-dave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here for full episodes of\u00a0The Carmichael Dave Show\u00a0with Jason Ross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More Sacramento Kings coverage from Sactown Sports<\/p>\n<p>Just months after talking up free agent signing Dennis Schroder as their new starting point guard, he\u2019s been moved to the bench.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 Sacramento Kings are 3-11 through their first 14 games. That\u2019s on pace for 17 total wins, equivalent to the Utah Jazz\u2019s record last season.<\/p>\n<p>Surely they\u2019ll put together a better stretch \u2014 and the early schedule has done them no favors \u2014 but all the roster construction concerns that were highlighted in the offseason have come to light.<\/p>\n<p>Starting power forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/59217\/sacramento-kings-keegan-murray-thumb-4-6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a>, who needed surgery in the preseason, certainly hasn\u2019t helped their cause, but their roster lacks a clear strength. Their preferred defensive identity involves picking up 94 feet, which isn\u2019t exactly panning out, as evidenced by their 27th-ranked defensive rating.<\/p>\n<p>That was part of the appeal with Schroder\u2019s addition. Kings\u2019 general manager Scott Perry and head coach Doug Christie both applauded the veteran guard\u2019s ability to set the tone on both ends of the floor.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday, Sacramento has a 122.0 defensive rating with Schroder on the floor compared to 113.9 without him. Now, it\u2019s worth noting that a similar story applies to Zach LaVine, Domantas Sabonis, and Russell Westbrook. Suffering a handful of 20+ losses already tends to harm everyone\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/60073\/unideal-start-dennis-schroders-kings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">An unideal start to Dennis Schroder\u2019s Kings tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Sacramento Kings schedule for the 2025-26 season<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, November 19th \u2013 @ Oklahoma City Thunder \u2013 5:00 PM PT<br \/>\nThursday, November 20th\u00a0\u2013 @ Memphis Grizzlies \u2013 5:00 PM PT<br \/>\nSaturday, November 22nd\u00a0\u2013 @ Denver Nuggets \u2013 7:00 PM PT<br \/>\nMonday, November 24th\u00a0\u2013 vs. Minnesota Timberwolves \u2013 7:00 PM PT<br \/>\nWednesday, November 26th\u00a0\u2013 vs. Phoenix Suns \u2013 7:00 PM PT<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thank you for reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SactownSports.com<\/a>. Follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sactown1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMGengsw2Ki2Aw?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Google News<\/a>, and subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/SactownSports1140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0channel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FCartoscelli3\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Follow @FCartoscelli3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sactownsports.com\/newsletters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SactownSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SactownSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings are currently closer to last place in the Western Conference standings than they are to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1073,121,123,122,3157,3156],"class_list":{"0":"post-60635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-home","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-sactownsports-com","13":"tag-sactownsports-com-sacramento-sports-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635","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=60635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}