[Game] 54/82: Kings vs. Cavaliers 07 FEB 2026, 7pm PT/10pm ET

[Joshyjosh31]

Carter out performing Perry’s number one free agent target I’m shocked

 

[BuddyBuckets]

Would be "something" if they handed it to Dallas two years in a row

I don't think they'd give them #1, but I do think its very likely they jump. Boozer next to flagg?
Good news for Kings fans this year is that the entire top5 looks extremely promising. If they stay at #1, they will be in a good spot. Of course Peterson is the prize, but even Caleb and Kingston look like really good players

 

[Krunker]

Yeah Carter needs to do whatever it takes so his moon shot goes in and he'll be a nice player

 

[KingsRUs]

wasnt that fairly blatant?

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

That's one of the worst challenges I've seen in a while

 

[HndsmCelt]

Bryant thinks he’s in a melodrama

 

[iowamcnabb]

Thomas Bryant is in his early 50s

 

[gunks]

Would you bet on the Wizards or Kings being handed the 1st pick?

Hell nah! But the superstitious weirdo in me would prefer us going in to the lotto 3rd worst! Just feels luckier!

 

[pdxKingsFan]

That challenge review description is like what they normally screwjob the Kings players on. "well he legally contacted the ball but then..."

 

[Kingz19]

Devin Carter sure doesn’t look that bad to have been a season long DNP-CD lol

 

[Spike]

Devin Carter sure doesn’t look that bad to have been a season long DNP-CD lol

He was stuck behind Keon's DNP-CD.

 

[Kingz19]

I like how everybody else does guns celebration but Ja had to invent an elaborate bomb routine without getting suspended

 

[Sluggah]

Russ forgot Keon wasn’t on the team anymore

 

[Jdbraver137]

Everything is relative: Plowden is three years younger than LaVine, he's eleven years younger than DeRozan... Hell, he's a year and a half younger than my son.

It’s really not relative. We need to get players in our rebuild window. It does matter if Zach,Derozan. Or Westbrook were 40. We still need to stick to building the timeline. It not like we could build plowden up for a trade for a young.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Dennis Cardwell

 

[KingsRUs]

There you go Carter on this 2nd half

 

[Krunker]

Nice, DC with an outside shot and the young guys playing hard

 

[Jdbraver137]

It so messed up they didn’t play Carter much earlier in the season.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Carter’s hustle goes a long way to paper over his flaws

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

It so messed up they didn’t play Carter much earlier in the season.

It's because "we didn't see what was happening in practice"

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

It’s really not relative. We need to get players in our rebuild window. It does matter if Zach,Derozan. Or Westbrook were 40. We still need to stick to building the timeline. It not like we could build plowden up for a trade for a young.

Relative to the 2025-26 Kings, Plowden is young. Who on the roster who's younger than Plowden who's still not playing?

You want to say that the Kings need to get younger for next year, fine. That don't have **** to do with the game that's going on right now, though.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Cardwell facial

 

[Jdbraver137]

I love how Mitchell saw cardwell and just didn’t go at him. Lol

 

[Warhawk]

Would be "something" if they handed it to Dallas two years in a row

Nobody hands anything to anyone.

 

[Kingz19]

Harden giving the Cavs an elimination game preview in his debut

 

[TheMobb]

It’s fun watching the young guys excel. But now it’s time to close this lin out.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

It so messed up they didn’t play Carter much earlier in the season.

It sucks for fans but there was no urgency. He's taken Keon's space in the rotation more or less and will get more opportunity, we still have 2.5 years on his rookie deal. It's the business side.

 

[Kingz19]

Harden giving the Cavs an elimination game preview in his debut

See, I tempted fate with my last Harden remark so the Kings pull out the Lin

 

[Joshyjosh31]

It so messed up they didn’t play Carter much earlier in the season.

All the development he could’ve had

 

[gunks]

I dunno, it's very clear now that the plan was definitely showcasing the vets to try to get something out of them at the deadline. Unfortunately there's only one Vivek out there and we're stuck with him.

Good news is that it seems very clear that the youth movement is on. Zach can stay home, nobody cares. He's a sulky tank commander and a trade piece next season as an ender.