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The Nets are weak. THE KINGS ARE STRONG.
Good morning. Let’s basketball.
This is going to be a brief newsletter, but folks: the Sacramento Kings scored One Hundred And Fifty-Three Points on the Brooklyn née New Jersey Nets. In regulation. With more than half a quarter of garbage time.
Not just regular garbage time. Matthew Dellavedova throwing lobs to Alex Len garbage time.
The Nets defense got off to an abysmal start this season, but had turned it around of late in the wake of Kyrie Irving’s suspension and Steve Nash’s dismissal. This isn’t to say the improvement was totally fake — fluke games happen. But the way in which Domantas Sabonis, De’Aaron Fox, Terence Davis II, Kevin Huerter and the crew carved up the Nets easily and repeatedly sure didn’t feel like random heat. It felt inevitable as the game wore on. Which is a wild thing to say about the Sacramento Kings.
The Kings, by the way, are now 7-6. That means that after starting 0-4, they have gone 7-2. The outburst on Tuesday puts them No. 2 in the NBA in offense, behind only the Celtics. The defense is … uh, you know, a work in progress. Sacramento’s next two games are against the Spurs (No. 28 in defense) and Pistons (No. 30), so 150 could be on the table again.
The Kings are doing this. They are really doing this.
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