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

Your favorite thing that happened on this date in history?

  • Eli Whitney patents the Cotton Gin (1794)

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • U2 inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2005)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Simone Biles born (1997)

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • Ferdinand von Zeppelin receives a US patent for a "Navigable Balloon" (1899)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hank Aaron makes his Major League Baseball debut (1954)

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Bill Withers wins Best R&B Song Grammy for "Ain't No Sunshine" (1972)

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • First live performance by Metallica (1982)

    Votes: 1 4.8%

  • "Me Against the World" by 2Pac released (1995)

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Albert Einstein born (1879)

    Votes: 8 38.1%

  • Damn it, Slim, you left off _______________!

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Total voters
    21
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Mr. S£im Citrus

Mr. S£im Citrus

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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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Kawhi Leonard, Clippers hope for smooth waters against sunken Kings (NBA.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.

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.
 
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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
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.
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Donna Paulsen gets my vote. I don't care if she fits the criteria or not.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Oh, the Huge Manatee! : r/funny

(The image is a flying manatee in flames.)
Also, I blame Einstein for where we are today.
So, Bill Withers it is!
 
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Happy Birthday, Mama Factorial!
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Understood, I will plead laziness in my reading. I really have not seen the polls as a vote for something we like so much as something we thought was most important. In the same sense that I would consider the atomic bomb more important than chocolate ice cream.
 
Malik Monk will not play tonight. Maybe tomorrow vs. Utah.

Also, Keegan Murray will miss at least two more weeks due to reinjuring his left ankle. It certainly looks like the Kings may shut him down for the rest of the season at this point, because there is no point in risking a long-term injury when they have $140 million invested in him.
 
HndsmCelt said:
Understood, I will plead laziness in my reading. I really have not seen the polls as a vote for something we like so much as something we thought was most important. In the same sense that I would consider the atomic bomb more important than chocolate ice cream.
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That seems to be the case with several people.
 
I didn't think I could be more annoyed by a nationally televised NBA game I wanted to watch being delayed by the NBA game on before it, until a nationally televised NBA game I wanted to watch got delayed by a college game!

Prime Video would never!
 
Clippers at full strength (in their current iteration) for the first time. Kings team down to a Russ and Deebo and a bunch of random guys who were various degrees of not im the NBA prior to the season somehow in the lead after one.
 
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