The Sacramento Kings have come home after a two game trip to San Francisco with their first playoff series in 17 years now a best of three against the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Beat up, frustrated and struggling to hit open shots, the Kings have to figure out how to stop their skid quick, or risk heading into the weekend as the next Western Conference candidates for elimination. Can the comfort of home give Kevin HueRter, Keegan Murray and the rest of our shooters the boost they need to drag their numbers back to the mean? Can De’Aaron Fox continue his fantastic playoff debut with a splint now firmly wrapped around his broken index finger? Will Draymond Green follow up his previous exit from the Golden 1 Center with something even more worthy of the jeers from the Sacramento crowd?
Let’s talk playoff basketball!
When: Wednesday, April 26th, 7:00 PM PT
Where: Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA
TV: TNT, NBCSCA
Radio: Sactown Sports 1140
For Your Consideration
Fit To Be Tied: Not a single soul in Sacramento thought that this first round match-up against the Warriors was going to be easy. Despite the jokes, the memes, the ribbing at the expense of our silicon-soft neighbors to the West, there isn’t a single reasonable person that believed Golden State would slide out of their historic run over the last decade with whatever the basketball equivalent is to an Irish good-bye. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green have too much pride, too much of a legacy still too establish, too many ideas for dirty plays that remain uncommitted to just lose two straight in Sacramento and decide the band was breaking up. And yes, to give a reminder to those who forgot, those are the stakes of this series – the dissolution of the Golden State Warriors as currently constructed. With Klay demanding a max extension, Green’s contract flexibility coming into this free agency period, and ownership stating that they’re not paying near half a yard next year for anything short of championship contender, a first round exit at the hand of the team they view as Kirkland-brand Warriors could have a rippling effect that could sink the entire bay area in a wall of salty tears.
We knew at close of day that these Warriors would burn and rave and rage, rage against the dying of the light. Now with only two games left guaranteed to be played, the Kings are still in a position to extinguish that light once and for all.
The Kings certainly have to play better than…
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