The red-hot Sacramento Kings (7-7 in their last 14 games) are in Charlotte tonight to play a Hornets team with more reasons to win, but will they? Let’s get into it.
Who: Sacramento Kings (19-53) vs. Charlotte Hornets (37-34)
Where: Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC
When: 5:00 PM PT / 7:00 PM ET
Watch: NBCSCA / League Pass
The Kings ruled rookie Nique Clifford out for Tuesday’s game against the Charlotte Hornets due to left foot soreness, according to a report from the Sacramento Bee’s Jason Anderson. Clifford joins Precious Achiuwa, Drew Eubanks, Killian Hayes, DeAndre Hunter, Zach LaVine, Keegan Murray, Domantas Sabonis, Isaiah Stevens, and Russell Westbrook in street clothes tonight. Daequon Plowden is also questionable.
To the extent anything can bum me out further at this point, Nique Clifford is one of the more interesting players to watch on this current version of the Sacramento Kings, so, there’s one less reason to watch the game tonight, if you were looking for more reasons.
Also one more excuse for Vivek Ranadive, who blamed injuries for how poorly the Kings’ season has gone in an interview with DiyaTV:
“Obviously, it’s tough to lose,” Ranadive said. “But injuries are a fact of life. I don’t think we’ve had a single game where we’ve had all our starters together. So we’ve had the injury plague this year.”
Cool. Yeah. It’s just the injuries. Not the most poorly constructed roster (with the intent of winning) that we’ve seen in Sacramento, maybe ever. Couldn’t be that.
Prediction: Kings 122, Hornets 115.