[Game] 38/82: Kings @ Celtics 10 JAN 2025, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Sacramento Kings 18-19 (8-7 away) @ Boston Celtics 27-10 (13-6 home)
10 January 2025, 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET
TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts​

Game Preview:
Surging Kings Out to Cement Identity Versus Celtics (NBA.com)

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Radio: Sactown Sports 1140 AM

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Injury Report (as of 1pm ET):
Kings:
De'Aaron Fox - QUESTIONABLE (hip)

Celtics:
Jordan Walsh- QUESTIONABLE (undisclosed illness)
Drew Peterson - OUT (concussion)


Referee Assignments:
John Goble (#10 - Crew Chief), Brent Barnaky (#36), Derrick Collins (#11) - Fifty-seven years combined experience



Mister Slim Says: Kings take the show on the road, hoping to extend their winning streak against arguably their toughest test on the season to-date, the reigning NBA Champion Boston Celtics. Celtics have had the Kings' number in recent years, winning six straight in the all-time series, and will essentially be at full strength tonight. For Sacramento to have a shot at the win, they're going to have to be super-duper dialed in. That relentless fourth-quarter scramble thing they've been doing since Doug Christie took over the head coaching duties? Yeah, they're going to have to do that the whole game. And even then, probably have to hope for an off night from one or both of Tatum and Brown. Going to pretty much need forty-eight minutes of mistake-free basketball.

And plenty of cornbread. Preferably pan-fried with some fish grease.

 

[coolhandluke]

Fox is OUT today?

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877785381195636988

 

[BenchMob]

Fox is OUT today?

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877785381195636988

Looks like it, i noticed in shoot around he wasn't really moving 100%, not suprised

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Best thing in Boston is the DeLux Cafe on Chandler off Clarendon. Music scene was A+++ when I lived there. The Hatch Shell. The Beanpot Tournament. Newbury Comics. Newbury Street. Indian Food (best is technically in Cambridge though. Along with the Middle East Cafe).

I'd rattle off a dozen things about old Boston I miss sadly all 20+ years gone by now (Rathskeller, Delihaus, old Kenmore, old Lansdowne, kickass sandwhich shop on Newbury, the cute clerk at Videosmith, Turtles, the Showcase Showdown, skate/bmx at Government Square).

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

I hope for the best, but am very much so expecting the absolute worst.

This team has surprised me in the past, though, and they certainly can do so again tonight...

Appropriately enough, and since we ARE in BEANtown...

LET'S LIGHT THAT ISH!!!

 

[BosnianDiehard2.0]

Fox is OUT today?

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877785381195636988

Welll, that’s tough. Was really hoping today would mark his return.

However, this couuuld be a blessing in disguise when it comes to defensive matchups in the starting lineup if Keon starts as he has been. We can have Keon on Brown and Keegan on Tatum. Not sure who would have guarded Brown if Fox was starting.

Regardless of who is playing or not, we desperately need to hit threes at a solid rate tonight. Celtics obviously shoot a lot of 3s, and I heard a stat like they average 18 made threes a game! Need to hit at least 12-15ish threes to have a chance in all likelihood.

 

[iowamcnabb]

Spray threes incoming

 

[sactowndog]

Welll, that’s tough. Was really hoping today would mark his return.

However, this couuuld be a blessing in disguise when it comes to defensive matchups in the starting lineup if Keon starts as he has been. We can have Keon on Brown and Keegan on Tatum. Not sure who would have guarded Brown if Fox was starting.

Regardless of who is playing or not, we desperately need to hit threes at a solid rate tonight. Celtics obviously shoot a lot of 3s, and I heard a stat like they average 18 made threes a game! Need to hit at least 12-15ish threes to have a chance in all likelihood.

Will be an interesting test of this line-up without Fox.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Now I may be way off here, but it seems to me that if you commit a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2 foul, and the fouled player misses time due to injury, that you should be suspended for as long as the player you injured remains out.

 

[Srzly]

Now I may be way off here, but it seems to me that if you commit a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2 foul, and the fouled player misses time due to injury, that you should be suspended for as long as the player you injured remains out.

Take it a step further and have the offending player’s salary go to pay the salary of the injured player while they’re injured.

It would certainly stop any end of bunch scrub from cheap shotting a star player.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Now I may be way off here, but it seems to me that if you commit a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2 foul, and the fouled player misses time due to injury, that you should be suspended for as long as the player you injured remains out.

Hockey and football fans begging for penalty process like this for years, I think most recently for the hit on Trevor Lawrence. Would love to see NBA beat them to the punch.

 

[Telemachus]

Now I may be way off here, but it seems to me that if you commit a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2 foul, and the fouled player misses time due to injury, that you should be suspended for as long as the player you injured remains out.

I'll die on this hill. I believe they only called it a flagrant 1 because it was his 6th foul and was out of the game anyway. That type of foul has been called a flagrant 2 almost every time I've seen it.

 

[Section 101]

Now I may be way off here, but it seems to me that if you commit a Flagrant 1 or Flagrant 2 foul, and the fouled player misses time due to injury, that you should be suspended for as long as the player you injured remains out.

If they have games still scheduled it should be against the same team.

 

[gunks]

Losing to Boston without Fox means nothing, but if we win tonight we're never losing again.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

If they have games still scheduled it should be against the same team.

And that's the one soccer fans cry for. What good is a player sitting out on a red against your table positioning rival in the next game

Really this is a bummer though. I really figured he'd be out a game or two but with the long break we'd be ok.

 

[Caccia]

Fox is OUT today?

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877785381195636988

Doggone. Fox vs Jayson Tatum would have been quite a matchup.

I remember last year's game in Boston. The Celtics just toyed with the Kings. I do not want to see another embarrassment like that one.

 

[Hoovtrain]

Cool fox still out

 

[Sluggah]

Best thing in Boston is the DeLux Cafe on Chandler off Clarendon. Music scene was A+++ when I lived there. The Hatch Shell. The Beanpot Tournament. Newbury Comics. Newbury Street. Indian Food (best is technically in Cambridge though. Along with the Middle East Cafe).

I'd rattle off a dozen things about old Boston I miss sadly all 20+ years gone by now (Rathskeller, Delihaus, old Kenmore, old Lansdowne, kickass sandwhich shop on Newbury, the cute clerk at Videosmith, Turtles, the Showcase Showdown, skate/bmx at Government Square).

Had to live in the Boston area (technically Cambridge, literally catty-corner to the Middle East) for a handful of years. I miss nothing about Boston. I miss a lot about PDX, though, so I guess we’re not sworn enemies yet.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

I’ll do all of us a favor and add Boston to my parlay

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Had to live in the Boston area (technically Cambridge, literally catty-corner to the Middle East) for a handful of years. I miss nothing about Boston. I miss a lot about PDX, though, so I guess we’re not sworn enemies yet.

When did you live there? I was in New Hampshire in 88-89 and Boston 92-98. Last time I visited I barely recognized the place and that was 20 years ago.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877771744892641759

Lyle’s starting would make sense we need bodies on Tatum/Brown

 

[Sluggah]

When did you live there? I was in New Hampshire in 88-89 and Boston 92-98. Last time I visited I barely recognized the place and that was 20 years ago.

Moved after graduating, was there between 2007-2011. Had never experienced humidity and cold like that. Miserable. Found the locals unbearable (though loved everyone I met who was from somewhere else originally). Absolutely hated the food, exacerbated by my love of Mexican (shout out to anna's taqueria as the only tolerable option, randomly in a student center). Annoyed by the city “planning” and having to navigate the area (WTF went wrong here).

I feel like I’m not a super negative person, but something about that place broke me immediately. Arrived the night we drafted Spencer Hawes. A harbinger for my stay.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Moved after graduating, was there between 2007-2011. Had never experienced humidity and cold like that. Miserable. Found the locals unbearable (though loved everyone I met who was from somewhere else originally). Absolutely hated the food, exacerbated by my love of Mexican (shout out to anna's taqueria as the only tolerable option, randomly in a student center). Annoyed by the city “planning” and having to navigate the area (WTF went wrong here).

I feel like I’m not a super negative person, but something about that place broke me immediately. Arrived the night we drafted Spencer Hawes. A harbinger for my stay.

Mexican food was a major problem. best I ever got was Big Burrito in Allston and that wasn't legit. I think they opened a sister shop or other big burrito place in Kenmore after I left. Had a lot of punk compilations. You missed out on most everything I loved there. Was during peak championship era - there was not one championship while I was there and the Bruins and Celtics both finished with the worst records in the league at least once while I was there. Pats won 2 games my first year there. So the sports crowd was way different.

However I felt comfortable navigating there, I rode bmx a lot around town, was in an informal bike club, and it was the first city I mostly got around with public transit in. I have used it in Portland which is comparably worse. I did live in the Back Bay near Copley Square and so I really had almost everything I wanted off of Newbury or Boylston streets or could walk down Comm Ave to school and clubs.

You're dead right about summertime humidity though. Cold was bad but have you ever been to Michigan in December or January?

 

[Sluggah]

Mexican food was a major problem. best I ever got was Big Burrito in Allston and that wasn't legit. I think they opened a sister shop or other big burrito place in Kenmore after I left. Had a lot of punk compilations. You missed out on most everything I loved there. Was during peak championship era - there was not one championship while I was there and the Bruins and Celtics both finished with the worst records in the league at least once while I was there. Pats won 2 games my first year there. So the sports crowd was way different.

However I felt comfortable navigating there, I rode bmx a lot around town, was in an informal bike club, and it was the first city I mostly got around with public transit in. I have used it in Portland which is comparably worse. I did live in the Back Bay near Copley Square and so I really had almost everything I wanted off of Newbury or Boylston streets or could walk down Comm Ave to school and clubs.

You're dead right about summertime humidity though. Cold was bad but have you ever been to Michigan in December or January?

Oh, the sports fans were insufferable during my stint.

Back Bay probably the best area to be. I had only lived on the west coast, and been to the snow maybe a couple times, never when it was freezing though. So that’s a no to Michigan. Boston has been and will hopefully remain the coldest I’ve ever felt. I’m out on needing multiple wardrobes for different seasons. Not for me.

 

[SLAB]

I’m not going to use this game to gauge anything. Unless of course we win, in which case we’re winning out.

 

[Jc121]

Well will be switch back between the kings and the Ohio state / Texas game.

hope the kings game goes as well as I hope it does.

 

[BenchMob]

This will be a good barometer game. I don't expect a win but like to see the continued fight in this team and not give up.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877864552420761703

friar

 

[Caccia]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1877864552420761703

friar

Terrific. Go Kings! Go King Carter!!

 

[NewArena]

I can’t remember the last time we were even competitive against this team, whether it be at home or on the road. But i feel that we will compete without Fox and still fight until the end and that’s all i can ask for right now.