Resume and Highlights: Thunder 103-113 Kings in NBA Season
Sacramento Kings wants to avoid being the worst team in the conference and beat Thunder who was in second to last place, Barnes gave a great exhibition by scoring 24 points, on the Thunder side Giddey added the same amount of points.
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Ty Jerome generated a game-high 21 points with his eight assists, Kenrich Williams recorded six rebounds and a pair of steals and Mike Muscala pulled down five boards while also deflecting a block
For the third straight game, the Thunder's ball movement proved to be a catalyst in their offensive impact. OKC recorded 24 assists on just 33 made baskets on Friday, which marked the third straight game for OKC to record.
The Thunder conclude their three-game road trip with a showdown against the Sacramento Kings before returning home to begin a stretch of four games in six nights.
"We just stuck together," said Thunder guard Lu Dort, who led the way with a game-high 22 points. "I felt like we did a great job of trying not to give them a second chance. Just being really gritty and fighting hard on the rebounding. It was just a fight the whole game. We just had to stay together and fight to win."
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As part of the agreement to keep the team in the city, a group of businessmen acquired a majority stake in the Kings and agreed with the city authorities to build a new stadium for 2016. Construction began in October 2014 and was inaugurated for the 2016-17 season; it has a capacity for 17,500 people and had a final cost of $507 million.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the young player from the University of Kentucky has been responsible for being the team's leading scorer this season, despite not being in one of the best moments, Alexander has this season the mark of: 22.7 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 5.5 assists, with these numbers the player is one of the most productive for the Oklahoma City team.
Harrison Barnes, the experienced player has had a good season despite his team has not performed in the best way, his performance has been one of the most regular in the team and translates into: 16.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists, so his presence on the court will be important.
Kings and Thunder will meet for the third time this season, both teams have one win overall, the first game was won by Thunder in a tight 103-105 score, while for the second game Kings won 111-117.
The Thunder history begins in Seattle with the extinct Seattle Supersonics in 1967, being a practically new team at the end of the 70's they won their first and only NBA title, however for the 90's the team achieved record wins in the league but failed in the first round of Playoffs, for the 2007-08 season, the team closed the season with only 20 wins, the team improved economically and was being built, a young James Harden joined the team to share the court with Kevin Durant, as the seasons went by the team was improving economically and athletically, reaching its first final in the 2011-12 season, in which they faced the Miami Heat of LeBron James, which ended with the championship and being MVP of the finals, prior to this season the team lost great players like Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Paul George, among other great players, is currently one of the worst teams in the western conference with a negative record of 16-34 and come from two consecutive victories.
The franchise founded in 1923 has gone through different cities and therefore different names, the team started in Rochester, NY with the name of Seagrams, then changed to Rochester Royals, Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City Kings, until reaching the current Sacramento Kings, surprisingly the team has a title obtained in 1951, in that occasion they beat New York Knicks and it has been their last title to date, the Maloof family in 2013 was about to sell the franchise to a group that tried to revive the Seattle Supersonics, however the deal was not made, in the 2021 NBA season they have a negative record of 19-35, Kings comes from a loss against Warriors.
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