Doug Christie uses smelling salts before games.

Name another NBA coach who does that

One of the best players in the league

Nope. Take the week to get healthy, no need to make it something more

Keon Ellis’ Advanced Ratings in 37:46 minutes tonight

Off Rating: 122.1
Def Rating: 98.7
Net Rating: 23.4

Winning basketball player.

In his postgame interview, Domantas Sabonis said Doug Christie told them "Get three stops in a row."

The Kings ended the game with 8 straight stops and a 15-0 run to close it out.

That'll do!

Sacramento adding a “Horns out/Stack Out” action to the playbook.
For DeRozan..

I’ve watched every one of our games and hadn’t really seen that before.

Just an observation…

Coaching! Kings get back into the game because Doug Christie knows that double teams and aggressive traps make players uncomfortable.

Now THAT is what I’m talking about!!! Great job Doug Christie!

The pressure defense changed the game.

Merry Crisis

6. The anomaly. Keon Ellis has been in and out of the rotation over the last few games. He may have earned some more burn with his energetic play on the defensive end. Plus/minus is a weird stat, but Ellis posted an incredible +32 in this one.

NBA Twitter wasn’t perfect but really miss the glory days and hoping we can make it bigger and better over here

Is it okay to post the beam here?

Keep Jae Crowder at all costs.

This good?

Beyond thankful to all of you for rockin with us.

Enjoy the pod after a very fun Kings comeback:
www.youtube.com/live/vJJf_00...

NEW DUNKER SPOT IS OUT

Some very good hoop talk with @nekiasnba.bsky.social but more importantly I did this for the

DUNKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS

EP 359: youtu.be/QN6R40I176g?...

It’s beautiful.

Looking to just follow Kings content and none of the other stuff?

I created a custom feed that sifts through and only shows posts that involve the Sacramento Kings. Right now it's keyworded but you can also use #skbt and 🏀👑 to get featured on the list

link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

Pullup 3 continues to look smooth for De'Aaron Fox, no hesitation to let it fly.

Gotta do your own Risacher

a man with a beard and a black shirt says what happened ALT: a man with a beard and a black shirt says what happened

I just wrote about the 20th anniversary of the Malice at the Palace for tomorrow’s newsletter. And I think I said the stuff you’re not supposed to say. We’ll find out.

Subscribe and find out tomorrow! Its free! theathletic.com/thebounce

It’s crazy seeing De’Aaron Fox has 26 points on good shooting and thinking, “that’s it?” He’s had a week

“Hands a part of the ball when it’s convenient” is damn on point for this game