[Game] 77/82: Kings @ Raptors 01 APR 2026, 5pm PT/8pm ET

Kings have 19 wins with 6 games to go. How many wins will they finish with?

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Sacramento Kings 19-57 (6-32 Away) @ Toronto Raptors 42-33 (21-16 Home)
01 April 2026, 5pm PT/8pm ET
Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Last 5:
Raptors 3-2 Kings 1-4

Series:
Raptors lead 1-0​


Game Preview:
Raptors seek faster start in encounter vs. Kings (NBA.com)

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Injury Report (as of 4pm ET):
Raptors:
Carter Murray-Boyles - QUESTIONABLE (back)
Jamison Battle - OUT (injury)
Chucky Hepburn - OUT (knee)
Brandon Ingram - OUT (rest)
Immanuel Quickley - OUT (foot)

Kings:
Isaiah Stevens - DOUBTFUL (ankle)
Keegan Murray - OUT (ankle)
Russell Westbrook - OUT (foot)
Drew Eubanks - OUT FOR SEASON (thumb)
De'Andre Hunter - OUT FOR SEASON (eye)
Zach LaVine - OUT FOR SEASON (finger)
Domantas Sabonis - OUT FOR SEASON (knee)


Referee Assignments:
Sean Wright (#4 - Crew Chief), Eric Dalen (#37 - Referee), Jonathan Sterling (#17 - Umpire). Forty-eight years combined experience.


Mister Slim Says:

HERE WE GO AGAIN! (Here we go again!)

SAME OLD SONG AGAIN! (Same old song again!)

MARCHING DOWN THE AVENUE! (Marching down the avenue!)

SIX MORE GAMES, AND WE'LL BE THROUGH! (Six more games, and we'll be through!)

Sacramento wraps up a (thus far) winless road trip in Toronto. The Raptors, though shorthanded, are currently the sixth seed in the east, and highly motivated to avoid the play-in, so they're definitely not tanking. On the other hand, well, thee was no way that DeMar DeRozan was going to sit this game out, so get ready to see him featured a lot in this game, Monk has also been cleared to return which, unfortunately, probably means fewer minutes for Carter.


Shout out to @HndsmCelt for being the sole correct guess in the March wins poll.


Play the kids.


I see that Mark and Kayte are calling the game, which pleases me.
 
19...Because if the Kings go winless the rest of the way, I won't be disappointed. And if the Kings win a few games along the way, I also won't be disappointed. Either way, I'm winning!
 
Sounds like Poeltl has been playing well since the all star break. Only bring that up in case Barrett for Sabonis and parts is back on the table this summer. Not that I want him but to make salaries work.
 
jiimbob said:
Sounds like Poeltl has been playing well since the all star break.
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Tale as old as time: Poeltl plays just well enough the last six weeks of the season to get people to ask me when am I going to put him on the Big Man nightly listings... And then he'll spend the first eighteen weeks of next season doing ****-all.
 
I looked at the remaining opponents and we should lose every game, but something tells me we win one.
 
Insomniacal Fan said:
I believe he qualified by the text of the rules last year.
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He didn't.

Poeltl only made Honorable Mention nine times during the 2024-25 season, and only earned Big Man of the Night once. That's not good enough to merit inclusion in the nightly listing, and this season he hasn't approached that low bar. I'll give him a little grace for being injured, but he hasn't exactly set the league on fire when he was healthy. He's never averaged a double-double in his career, and has only broken 9 rebounds a game three times in ten seasons. He's never finished Top 10 in rebounds, he's only finished Top 10 in blocks twice, and he's not a good enough on either offense or defense to offset how mediocre he is in the other aspect.

He's a perfectly cromulent big man, but he's not worthy.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
He didn't.

Poeltl only made Honorable Mention nine times during the 2024-25 season, and only earned Big Man of the Night once. That's not good enough to merit inclusion in the nightly listing, and this season he hasn't approached that low bar. I'll give him a little grace for being injured, but he hasn't exactly set the league on fire when he was healthy. He's never averaged a double-double in his career, and has only broken 9 rebounds a game three times in ten seasons. He's never finished Top 10 in rebounds, he's only finished Top 10 in blocks twice, and he's not a good enough on either offense or defense to offset how mediocre he is in the other aspect.

He's a perfectly cromulent big man, but he's not worthy.
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He qualified for honorable mention 5 times in one month
Insomniacal Fan

Post in thread 'Big (Man) Love, 2025-26 season'

Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Y'all know what it is: if you need to know the rules, look up one of the old threads.

The following is the "pre-approved" list of Top Tier Big Men:

  • Bam Adebayo (MIA)
  • Anthony Davis (DAL)
  • Joel Embiid (PHI)
  • Rudy Gobert (MIN)
  • Nikola Jokić (DEN)
  • Domantas Sabonis (SAC)
  • Alperen Şengün (HOU)
  • Karl-Anthony Towns (NYK)
  • Nikola Vučević (CHI)
  • Victor Wembanyama (SAS)
  • Ivica Zubac (LAC)
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I think you missed moving Jakob Poeltl into the pantheon of pre-approved Big men...

Per rule 3 of the rules for that year, that qualifies for probationary inclusion in top tier big men
Mr. S£im Citrus

Thread 'Big (Man) Love, 2024-25 season'

It's time... once again...

  1. Anybody who is on the "pre-approved" list of Top Tier Big Men (as determined by @Mr. S£im Citrus) will have their nightly statlines recorded, regardless of whether they are good or bad.
  2. Any big man not on the pre-approved list of Top Tier Big Men is eligible to be included in the Honorable Mention portion of the nightly listing. Inclusion into the Honorable Mention portion requires at least one of the following:
    • 20/10 performance (doesn't matter which stat is the 20, and which one is the 10)...
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I'm not all that broken up about it, not a huge Poetl fan myself, but these are your rules.
 
And then proceeded to qualify three times for the remainder of the season after that. I will concede that I failed to provide him with a probationary listing in December, but the only thing that would have happened is that he would have immediately played himself back off the list by January.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
And then proceeded to qualify three times for the remainder of the season after that. I will concede that I failed to provide him with a probationary listing in December, but the only thing that would have happened is that he would have immediately played himself back off the list by January.
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Well, by the rules you posted, he'd need have to have accumulated 5 double singles in a month to be played off, which he never sunk to.
 
Hard to believe that two of the expected starters for the Kings this season, Domantas Sabonis and Keegan Murray, never played a minute together on the court. I would say "Wait 'til next year," but who the heck knows what Scott Perry is going to do over the summer?
 
Caccia said:
Hard to believe that two of the expected starters for the Kings this season, Domantas Sabonis and Keegan Murray, never played a minute together on the court. I would say "Wait 'til next year," but who the heck knows what Scott Perry is going to do over the summer?
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I mean, with further lotto reform on the table for next season, might as well grab our top 8 guy (top 4 BB gods willing) and just try to compete again when the squad is healthy.

Waive Zach unless we're trying to suck again. Not that we ever really try to suck, it just happens.
 
Insomniacal Fan said:
Well, by the rules you posted, he'd need have to have accumulated 5 double singles in a month to be played off, which he never sunk to.
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You may, perhaps, have missed this part of Rule 3:

until/unless otherwise determined by @Mr. S£im Citrus
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Five "double singles" are grounds for automatic removal from the listing if you're on as a probationary. At no point did I ever state that that was the sole thing one could do to be disqualified.
 
Mr. S£im Citrus said:
You may, perhaps, have missed this part of Rule 3:



Five "double singles" are grounds for automatic removal from the listing if you're on as a probationary. At no point did I ever state that that was the sole thing one could do to be disqualified.
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Well that's fine, but this seems like the exception defines the rule. Why write down any rules at all?
 
the Raptors were Iike “nah we prefer the desiccated corpse of Jakob Poeltl and TJD instead of Domantas Sabonis” this trade deadline
 
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