The Warriors will host the Lakers on NBA opening night, October 18th, per
@ShamsCharania
.
Golden State will hold their ring ceremony prior to the game 🏆
"Kevin Heurter, right now, he's playing like Klay, Steph. If you're not a basketball fan and locked in on the league, you gotta watch how Kevin Heurter is shooting this ball right now."
@KDTrey5
sees what they're doing in Sacramento. 👀
📺 New The ETCs:
.
@money23green
HATES playing against bad NBA teams. 🤣
The four-time NBA champion shares why he dislikes playing against the bad teams in the league on
#TheShop
. Out tomorrow at 12pm ET / 9am PT on our YouTube! 💈
✅Coach of the year
WHAAAAT
✅Exec of the year
WHAAAAAT
✅Clutch player award
WHAAAAT
✅Two All-Stars
WHAAAT
✅G League Exec of the Year
WHAAAAT
✅Ending the playoff drought.
WHAT A YEAR
What a moment.
The Kings are headed back to the playoffs and the LEGEND
@ggerould
gets to call a playoff series for the first time in 17 years.
Enjoy his final call of this Kings win.
Sasha Vezenkov, Keegan Murray, Kevin Huerter, Davion Mitchell, Trey Lyles and former Kings PG Matthew Dellavedova in Vegas to watch the Kings summer league squad.
Clay Travis: "Keep politics out of sports! ESPN is now MSESPN! It's WokeCenter! People just want to hear about sports!"
Clay Travis: "Let's welcome in Senator Josh Hawley.....Let's welcome in President Donald Trump."
Travis is by far the biggest fraud in sports media 🤡
ESPN Sources: Free agent G Malik Monk intends to sign a four-year, $78 million deal — including a player option — to return to the Sacramento Kings. Monk had career-bests of 15 points and five assists on his way to the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year runner-up.
Breaking: Kings Emcee
@Scott_Fresh
was selected by the NBA to host events at NBA All-Star weekend in Salt Lake City. It's his 8th time being selected.
Seriously though, he's literally the best at his job and an even better person.
@KevinOConnorNBA
Interesting timing. You haven't tweeted about them since the last time they struggled. Celtics are a championship level squad and the Kings aren't yet. Sac also with wins over MIN, DEN, OKC-twice. Not sure what expectations you have for them.
How about this? The NBA just announced it's players of the week for each conference.
Western Conference: De'Aaron Fox
Eastern Conference: Tyrese Haliburton
Big announcement!
Excited to join
@NBCSKings
coverage in an expanded multiplatform role.
You'll see my analysis on pre and postgame all season long annnnnnnd more to come.
Being able to do this in my hometown means everything!
🏀 Game 7 of the GSW vs. SAC series on ABC – most-watched first round game in 24 years: 9.8M viewers
🏀 First round games across ABC, ESPN, TNT & NBA TV is the most watched in 9 years: 3.4M viewers
🏀 Won the night across all of TV among viewers under 50 on 13 out of 14 nights
Keep my pup Carlin in your thoughts. He had emergency surgery last night after suffering a slipped disc that put pressure on his spine.
Surgery went well and I should know more today. I can't wait to see that face. There's nothing like the love and joy he brings to my life.
Life is wild. I got a Mike Bibby jersey on Christmas Day in 2003.
Fast forward nearly 20 years later and I'm hosting Kings pre/postgame with him TONIGHT on NBC Sports California.
I can't waiiiiiit!
Man,
@ggerould
paints a pretty incredible picture.
The
@SacramentoKings
get a 94-93 win after being down 14 points.
They've won 6 of their last 7 games at home.
The amount of people in my mentions.
How about this clip 12 seconds into the game? We can do this all day. It's a physical series.
IT'S PHYSICAL IN THE PLAYOFFS.
Klay Thompson to
@ggerould
: "It's like a whole new team this year with the way they move the ball, how they push the pace & the type of athletes they play 's not an off night when you play these guys. They should definitely be in the playoff hunt all year."
These Kings home vs. road numbers are really interesting.
Kings at home:
Record: 23-16
Offensive rating: 1st
Defensive rating: 29th
Kings on the road:
Record: 24-14
Offensive rating: 3rd
Defensive rating: 9th
My boy is back home. What a 72 hours. He can't use his back legs at the moment but we hope he gets there.
Appreciate everyone's support over the last few days.
The Kings will play the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
It's the first time both teams have ever been in the playoffs in the same season.
CAN'T WAIT.
One of my favorite DeMar DeRozan stats:
He has played 93% of the games in his NBA career.
He also led the NBA in minutes last season--just ahead of Sabonis.
How many of you are re-watching the end of the game today?
The end of the 4th was WILD.
De'Aaron's offense is legit but that defense has taken such a serious leap. He's playing with physicality, focus AND he had to deal with PG and Kawhi at times. That was a STAR performance.
If it was wrestling, the lights would go out before tip off of Kings-China at California Classic for 10 seconds.
HUGE pyro hits.
"Not like us" plays and DeMar walks out with Fox and Monk.
Sacramento is NEXT level.
HUNDREDS showed up waiting until almost 1am to give Kings players and staff love after they clinched a playoff spot for first time since 2006.
I think Mike Brown got the BIGGEST pop.
Well, Mike Brown loved what Mason Jones brought to the team tonight.
"The energy he brought from being on the bench was phenomenal. We have a fairly quiet group so for him to bring that type of energy was phenomenal.
I felt it, our players felt it and our coaches felt it."
Mason Jones was the first player off the bench at EVERY timeout tonight.
He brought some much needed energy and vibes. That's how you have an impact without playing.
Kings rookie Colby Jones finished with 43 points, 7 asts, 5 reb, 4 steals on 16-22 FG AND 8-12 from 3.
An impressive showing for Jones in front of Kings GM Monte McNair and members of the Sacramento Kings coaching staff.
"You talk about making a statement! What a victory this is for the Sacramento Kings!"
The great
@ggerould
called his 2,999th Sacramento Kings game yesterday.
It was a special one.
Enjoy his call of the Kings magical double-OT win.
Zach Lowe on the Kings: "They're not going away, man. They're one wing away from being truly, truly interesting to me as like a potential contender."
Also: "There's a semi-reasonable world where we wake up and the Kings are in the conference finals. I wouldn't pick it..."
New Lowe Post podcast:
@espn_macmahon
on Ja Morant and the Grizzlies, seeding battles in the West, Luka-Booker/Mavs-Suns, Kings upside, early Kyrie/Luka returns. Then
@kendra__andrews
and I break down the Warriors:
Apple:
Spotify:
Just got back home. What a night! Grew up watching Kings-Lakers and tonight I got the chance to work the TV broadcast.
I cherish these moments! Thanks to everyone at
@NBCSKings
!