[Game] 68/82: Kings @ Clippers 14 MAR 2026, 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET (ESPN)

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Sacramento Kings 16-51 (5-28 Away) @ LA Clippers 34-32 (19-13 Home)
14 March 2026, 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET
Intuit Dome, Inglewood, California


Last 5:
Clippers 4-1 Kings 2-3

Series:
Clippers lead 2-0

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Game Preview:
Kawhi Leonard, Clippers hope for smooth waters against sunken Kings (NBA.com)

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Availability:
Broadcast: ESPN, NBC Sports California
Radio: Sactown Sports 1140 AM

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Box Score (via ESPN.com)

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Injury Report (as of 3pm ET):
Clippers:
Darius Garland - GAME-TIME DECISION (toe)
John Collins - OUT (neck)
Bradley Beal - OUT FOR SEASON (hip)
Yanic Konan Niederhauser - OUT FOR SEASON (foot)


Kings:
Malik Monk - QUESTIONABLE (ankle)
Devin Carter - OUT (ankle)
Drew Eubanks - OUT (thumb)
Keegan Murray - OUT (ankle)
Isaiah Stevens - OUT (thigh)
De'Andre Hunter - OUT FOR SEASON (eye)
Zach LaVine - OUT FOR SEASON (finger)
Domantas Sabonis - OUT FOR SEASON (knee)


Referee Assignments:
John Goble (#10 - Crew Chief), Robert Hussey (#89 - Referee), Brett Nansel (#44 - Umpire). Thirty-three years combined experience.


Mister Slim Says: Fifteen more games of this.

Sacramento, as expected, lost to a rising Hornets team, and now head downstate to Inglewood to take on the also-surging Clippers. LA, despite being on the second night of a back-to-back, will be motivated to win in order to give themselves better play-in positioning.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

The bugginess that's been affecting the board for a couple of weeks now prevented me from including my full write-up in the OP, so here's the rest of it:


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It's at least forty games overdue, but the Kings need to start cycling down the veterans soon. As I've stated before, there's no good reason for either Westbrook or DeRozan to play more than twenty-five minutes, not even with there being as many players unavailable as there are: call someone up from Stockton, and roll with it. FWIW, and I have no idea if he's going to play tonight, Dylan Cardwell is no longer listed on the injury report.

My original intention was to take advantage of 3/14 to make a Pie-related poll but, earlier this season, it turned out that there was an actual "Pie Day," so I already burned that idea. I then thought about making a poll for Legal Assistants Day but

1. I got cold feet after the lack of interest in Mortician's Day and
2. For as many legal drama novels and movies and TV shows as there are, there are surprisingly few iconic legal assistant characters (even if I stretched the definition to include court clerks and stenographers, there were barely enough for a decent poll)

... So, here we are.

Keep playing the kids.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Damn it, Slim, you left off my mother's birthday! Happy birthday, Mom!

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Happy Birthday, Mama Factorial!

 

[Tetsujin]

Eubanks is out. Cardwell is available. Our long national nightmare is officially over.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Eubanks is out. Cardwell is available. Our long national nightmare is officially over.

Wait until the Cardwell Effect starts winning us games during the tank-off and read the posts around here then get back to me on that whole "nightmare" thing.

 

[Warhawk]

The bugginess that's been affecting the board for a couple of weeks now prevented me from including my full write-up in the OP, so here's the rest of it:


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It's at least forty games overdue, but the Kings need to start cycling down the veterans soon. As I've stated before, there's no good reason for either Westbrook or DeRozan to play more than twenty-five minutes, not even with there being as many players unavailable as there are: call someone up from Stockton, and roll with it. FWIW, and I have no idea if he's going to play tonight, Dylan Cardwell is no longer listed on the injury report.

My original intention was to take advantage of 3/14 to make a Pie-related poll but, earlier this season, it turned out that there was an actual "Pie Day," so I already burned that idea. I then thought about making a poll for Legal Assistants Day but

1. I got cold feet after the lack of interest in Mortician's Day and
2. For as many legal drama novels and movies and TV shows as there are, there are surprisingly few iconic legal assistant characters (even if I stretched the definition to include court clerks and stenographers, there were barely enough for a decent poll)

... So, here we are.

Keep playing the kids.

Donna Paulsen gets my vote. I don't care if she fits the criteria or not.

 

[HndsmCelt]

Gotta go cotton, gin… made major socioeconomic changes for not just the United States, but globally.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Gotta go cotton, gin… made major socioeconomic changes for not just the United States, but globally.

I absolutely could not go with the cotton gin, Because of Reasons™.

 

[Kingster]

Westbrook and DDR need to sit out the rest of the season because of hangnails. It's widely known they can cause infection, and infection can cause septic shock, tissue damage, organ failure, or death. So out of an abundance of caution they need to sit their butts down and get pedicures for the remainder of the season.

 

[NewArena]

Definitely voted for Pac

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Definitely voted for Pac

That album came out the week before I went into boot camp.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Have a love hate with 'talica but the vast majority of the love was the 80s. I imagine they played a lot of covers that night and I will say for all my frustrations when they shifted to an arena rock band, they introduced me to tons of other great music in the 80s.

 

[Sluggah]

Ain’t No Sunshine is a whole mood, but going for that relativity thing.