{"id":553367,"date":"2026-03-30T01:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:47:07","slug":"nets-116-99-kings-mar-29-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/553367\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets 116-99 Kings (Mar 29, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — \u2014 Ochai Agbaji<\/a> scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 116-99 win over the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Agbaji led five Nets in double-figure scoring as Nolan Traore<\/a> had 17, Drake Powell<\/a> 16, Noah Clowney<\/a> 15 and Nic Claxton<\/a> 10 for Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Sacramento fell to 19-57 with its fourth straight loss.<\/p>\n

Devin Carter<\/a> scored 20 points for the Kings, who lost their fourth straight. Nique Clifford<\/a> added 17, Precious Achiuwa<\/a> had 16 and DaQuan Jeffries<\/a> 14.<\/p>\n

The second matchup in six days of franchises building for the future saw Nets coach Jordi Fernandez and Kings coach Doug Christie get extended looks at their young players.<\/p>\n

There were 10 Nets who played at least 10 minutes, led by Traore\u2019s 30, while the Kings had nine get playing time. Clifford led Sacramento with 37 minutes. <\/p>\n

Brooklyn put the game away in a span of 8:44 between the end of the first quarter and the midpoint of the second with a 23-7 run. <\/p>\n

Agbaji scored nine of his 18 points in the stretch for the Nets.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t all offense for Brooklyn in the first half. The Nets limited the Kings to 26.7% shooting from 3 and forced nine turnovers. <\/p>\n

Sacramento outscored Brooklyn 28-18 in the third quarter and opened the final 12 minutes with a 10-6 spurt to cut the Nets\u2019 lead to 92-83. That was as close as the Kings would come. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Kings: Finish their five-game road trip Wednesday in Toronto. <\/p>\n

Nets: Continue their season-high six-game homestand Tuesday against Charlotte. <\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — \u2014 Ochai Agbaji scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-553367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}