Game four of this dreaded six game east coast road trip takes the Kings to the City of Booing Santa Claus for a matchup with the Embiid/Harden Sixers!
Tyrese Maxey (now only the second best Tyrese of his draft class now that Tyrese Haliburton is no longer a King) remains out with a foot injury which leaves the Sixers with merely two perennial MVP candidates, PJ Tucker, Tobias Harris, and ex-Grizz De'Anthony Melton (once proclaimed better than De'Aaron Fox in an Aaron Bruski hot take) in their starting five.
The Kings meanwhile are coming off their worst loss of the season in Madison Square Garden and will be missing Alex Len in one of the ten or so games of the season where he potentially could be really needed. (Neemias Queta is expected to be active in his stead). De'Aaron Fox is still listed as questionable but apparently was at shoot around this morning.
Tough to stop a team with Joel Embiid on it even at full strength and it's totally reasonable to expect a loss tonight but I'm sure that won't stop some of you from proclaiming doom and formulating ideas to blow this team up if the Kings don't come out of the gates hot and blow out the Sixers by 50 points. That's just how things go on the treadmill of sadness we call life!
GO KINGS!